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Mastropietro, Carlos (b. 1958, Buenos Aires). Argentinean composer of mostly chamber works that have been performed in the Americas and Europe.
Mr. Mastropietro studied composition with Mariano Etkin, Gerardo Gandini and Manuel Juárez at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, where he earned his degree in 1987. He later attended a brief composition seminar with Nicolaus A. Huber in Montevideo in 1993 and an extended composition seminar with Coriún Aharonián in Buenos Aires in 1994.
Among his honors are Third Prize in the Blas Parera annual concert of Argentinean and Spanish music of the Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata and the Associació Catalana de Compositors in Barcelona (1988, for Hermógenes Cayo) and two awards in the Régimen de Fomento y Estímulo a la Producción e Industria Editorial Musical Argentina, Grabaciones en Casete in Buenos Aires (prize in the Song or Various Instruments category, 1989, for Aparecida and Hermógenes Cayo; prize in the Chamber Ensemble category, 1989, for D.A.K.). He has also received a publication and CD award from the Asociación Editar in Buenos Aires (1995, for La Otra Orilla) and a mention in the Jaurés Lamarque Pons guitar composition competition of the Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo (1998, for Violín hechizo). More recently, his work Memoria del borde was selected to represent Argentina at the ISCM World New Music Festival (1999, Bucharest/Chişinău; the performance was cancelled) and he earned First Prize in the composition competition of the International Society of Bassists (2000–01, for En una cara). His music has been performed in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Peru, Switzerland, Uruguay, and the USA.
He has taught as an associate professor of composition at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata since 1993 and has taught orchestration there as Profesor Titular since 1995, where he has also worked as a researcher since 1994.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: carlos.mastropietro@gmail.com
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
STAGE: Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel (incidental music, play by Jean Cocteau), flute, clarinet (+ alto saxophone), trumpet, trombone, violin, double bass, percussion, 1988 (each of its three sections may be performed separately as concert works: Discurso del General; Inmovilización de la Boda; Ritornello); Malos Presagios (dance music, choreography by company Traspiés), double bass, live electronics, 1993 (collaboration with Carlos Vega); Viejo final de partida (spectacular, after End game by Samuel Beckett), 2 actors ad libitum, alto flute, bass clarinet, trombone, bass drum, 1998 (may be performed as a concert work without actors); Instantes nulos (music for spectacular Manchas en el silencio, after Samuel Beckett), 2 actors, trombone, cello, 2 percussion, 2000 (may be performed as a concert work without actors)
ORCHESTRAL: Sieteis, 1985
CHAMBER MUSIC: D.A.K., guitar, violin, 1984; Imagen de Prueba Final, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, trumpet, violin, viola, cello, double bass, 1986; Discurso del General, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, violin, double bass, percussion, 1988 (section of Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel; may be performed separately as a concert work); Inmovilización de la Boda, flute, alto saxophone, trumpet, trombone, violin, double bass, percussion, 1988 (section of Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel; may be performed separately as a concert work); Ritornello, double bass, 1988 (section of Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel; may be performed separately as a concert work); Trabajo de Hormiga, bass clarinet, cello, double bass, piano, 1990; Aparecida 1991, flute, oboe, clarinet, 2 violins, viola, 1991 (version of vocal work); La Otra Orilla, flute, viola, piano, 1994–95; Memoria del borde, oboe, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 1996; En una cara, double bass, 1996; El robo del siglo, 'Música para circo' (music for a film never made), 9 tuned bottles (blown; 2 players), any 8 or more wind/brass/non-traditional instruments, double bass/bass guitar, 1-2 percussion, 1997; Violín hechizo, guitar, 1998; Viejo final de partida, alto flute, bass clarinet, trombone, bass drum, 1998 (concert version of stage work); Inclinados objetos ocre, string quartet, 2000; Instantes nulos, trombone, cello, 2 percussion, 2000 (concert version of stage work); Malavés, 1 or more percussion, 2001; La Chinche, violin, double bass, piano, bandoneón, 2005; Canción, guitar, ensemble (10 or more guitars), 2006
VOCAL: Hermógenes Cayo (text by Hermógenes Cayo [from film Hermógenes Cayo [Imaginero] by Jorge Prelorán, 1969]), soprano (+ jawbone), flute, French horn, snare drum, any low double-membrane drum, 1985 (jawbone doubling may be performed by a third percussionist); Aparecida (text from phonemes), 2 sopranos, flute, violin, 1986 (also versions as Aparecida 1991; Aparecida 2007, 2 female voices, 2007)
PIANO: Reconstrucción, 2002–06
(Last updated on December 7, 2007)
