GRATZER Carlos
Transmutango
Saxophone and marimba
Saxophone and marimba
GRATZER Carlos
Carlos Grätzer was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1956.
He was given his musical training by his father, the Austrian-Argentine composer Guillermo Graetzer, who had been a student of Paul Hindemith.
For a few years, Carlos Grätzer worked in the fields both of cinema (animated films) and music. He has dedicated himself exclusively to music since 1980.
In 1984, he received a scholarship from the French government and came to Paris, where he has settled. There, he continued his studies at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Paris. He also studied with André Boucourechliev and has participated in master class of Helmut Lachemmann, Klaus Huber, Pierre Boulez, Franco Donatoni, as well as in the training course of the Upic -CEMAMU-. He was invited to the Summer course of Darmstadt in 1986 and in 1989, he participated in the Computer Music Session for Composers at the IRCAM. In 1995 and 1999 he was invited to the Composers Conference at Wellesley College, USA.
Carlos Grätzer has received many awards - in particular the Buenos Aires City award Premio Municipal of Buenos Aires. He was a prize-winner at the 19th and 26th International Electroacoustic Music Competition in Bourges (1991 and 1999), and a finalist at the Boston University's ALEA III, International Composition Competition. In 1995, the International Music Council of UNESCO recommended his work Failles fluorescents, at the International Rostrum of Composers. In addition, Aura (par-delà les resonances) for trumpet and 11 instruments was selected for the World Music Days 2000 (ISCM Luxembourg) and won the Concerto Competition of the Symposium Franco-European de la Trompette.
Nowadays and after having writing Etincelles, for wind orchestra, commission by the French Army Band (Garde Républicaine de France), Carlos Grätzer, is working on an orchestra score commission by Radio France (radio program "Alla Breve"), for the French National Orchestra (Orchestre Nationale de France) to be premiered and broadcasted in 2015.
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Carlos Grätzer was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1956.
He was given his musical training by his father, the Austrian-Argentine composer Guillermo Graetzer, who had been a student of Paul Hindemith.
For a few years, Carlos Grätzer worked in the fields both of cinema (animated films) and music. He has dedicated himself exclusively to music since 1980.
In 1984, he received a scholarship from the French government and came to Paris, where he has settled. There, he...