T he Living Composers Project

Zimbaldo, Daniel Amadeo (b. 1955, Rosario). Argentinean-born Spanish composer of mostly chamber, vocal and electroacoustic works that have been performed throughout the world; he is also active as a music therapist.

Mr. Zimbaldo studied composition with Virtú Maragno at the Escuela Universitaria de Música de Rosario from 1973–79 and studied analysis and electronic and contemporary music privately with Dante Gerardo Grela Herrera in Rosario from 1974–78. He then had post-graduate studies in composition with Luis de Pablo at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid from 1981–84. He also studied electronic-music composition with Roger Cochini at the Groupe de Musique Électroacoustique de Bourges in 1984–85. He later studied music therapy at the Universidad del País Vasco – Instituto Música, Arte y Proceso de Vitoria from 1995–98 and at the Fundación Rudolf Steiner de Madrid from 2000–03, where he earned his degree in Waldorf education.

His honors include the Premio Cristóbal Halffter for organ composition in Ponferrada (1987, for Credo [El libro de las mutaciones... IV]), the Premio Speziale di Composizione de la SIAE in the Cinema – La Colonna Sonora competition in Trento (1988, for Omaggio a Luigi Dallapiccola) and the Prix de Musique Électroacoustique à Programme in the Bourges electroacoustic music competition (1996, for Cartas desde el Real Hospital de Lunáticos). In addition, he has received three one-year grants from the Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana in Madrid (1981–84) and a residency at the Academia de España in Rome from the Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores (1999).

As a music therapist, he was a founding member of the Asociación de Profesionales de Musicoterapia in Vitoria in 1996 and remains an active member. He introduced the Somatron unit for vibroacoustic therapy to Spain in 1997 and he founded the Aula de Musicoterapia at the Conservatorio de Música y Danza Montserrat Caballé in Arganda del Rey in 2006.

Mr. Zimbaldo is also active in other positions. He wrote the radio series Perfiles: La música de Luigi Dallapiccola for Radio Nacional de España in Madrid in 1987 and the book Aproximación a la música de Luigi Dallapiccola (2011, Editorial Arpegio). He has served as a music advisor to Radio Televisión Española in Madrid since 1989. He served as coordinator and technical advisor for the CD Música electroacústica española (1997, Asociación de Música Electroacústica de España) and as technical advisor for the DVD Curso interactivo de música (2001, Editorial Salvat). Moreover, he has written several articles on health and music, notably for the music journal 12 notas in Madrid (2000–01).

He taught music history at the Escuela Municipal de Música de Rosario from 1977–79, analysis at the Escuela Universitaria de Música de Rosario in 1980, counterpoint at the Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Albacete in 1987–88, and counterpoint and fugue at the Conservatorio Profesional de Música de la Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid from 1988–91, where he was a co-founder of its Laboratorio de Música Electroacústica in 1991. He has taught music part-time for children with specific learning problems at state music schools of the Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid since 2003.

He has lived in Spain since 1981.

CONTACT INFORMATION

E-mail address: danemzv@yahoo.com

SELECT LIST OF WORKS

STAGE: Don Gil de las calzas verdes (incidental music, play by Tirso de Molina, adapted by José Manuel Caballero Bonald), actors' chorus, synthesizers (1 player), 1994 (also concert version as Suite de 'Don Gil', orchestra)

ORCHESTRAL: Las tres miradas del Alma (in memoriam Rudolf Steiner), large orchestra (95 players), 1988–2001; Suite de 'Don Gil', 1994–2008 (concert version of Don Gil de las calzas verdes); In Christo morimur, large orchestra (82 players), 2007–08

CHAMBER MUSIC: La incertidumbre del silencio (El libro de las mutaciones... I), guitar, piano, 1982; Nocturne (El libro de las mutaciones... II), flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 1984; Adeu Batman...Adeu (El libro de las mutaciones... III), flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, piano, 1987; Las sonrisas del Golem (El libro de las mutaciones... VI), flute, bassoon, French horn, trumpet, vibraphone, 2-track tape, 1991; Prophecy (El libro de las mutaciones... VIII), violin, 2-track tape, 1993; Les gardiens d'An Nùba (El libro de las mutaciones... IX), flute, 2-track tape, 1999; Vacío y plenitud (El libro de las mutaciones... X), string quartet, 2007; El cuaderno del abuelo Manuel, clarinet, viola, piano, percussion, 2009 (version of piano work); Meditazione su 'Il Redentore benedicente' (El libro de las mutaciones... XII), clarinet, alto saxophone, violin, cello, 2-track tape, 2010

CHORAL: Missa brevis, mixed chorus, organ, percussion, string orchestra, 1995 (also version for mixed chorus, large orchestra [79 players], 1998); Ecce homo (El libro de las mutaciones... XI) (text by Christian Morgenstern), mixed chorus, 2-track tape, 2010

VOCAL: Cartas desde el Real Hospital de Lunáticos (text by Camilo José Cela), mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion, 2-track tape, 1980–82; Variaciones para orquesta (text by Juan Ramón Jiménez), soprano, large orchestra (63 players), 1982–83; Cantos de la España ausente (texts from 16th-/17th-century Spanish melodies of Amerindian, Arab, Sephardic origins), soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 1992

PIANO: La llave de cristal (El libro de las mutaciones... V), piano, 2-track tape, 1988; Las escaleras del diablo (El libro de las mutaciones... VII), piano, 2-track tape, 1992; El cuaderno del abuelo Manuel, 2008 (also version for clarinet, viola, piano, percussion, 2009)

ORGAN: Credo (El libro de las mutaciones... IV), 1987

ELECTROACOUSTIC: Naturaleza muerta, 2-track tape, 1984; Estudio sobre una configuración fractal, 2-track tape, 1991–92; Voz maleva, 2-track tape, 1993; Sonata opus 10 (text by Aintzane García), 2-track tape, 1997–2004 (two of its four sections may be performed separately: Le cri étouffé, 1997; A palo seco, 2000

FILM SCORE (NON-COMMERCIAL) (DIRECTOR): Omaggio a Luigi Dallapiccola, 1988 (Peter Braatz)

TV SCORES (DIRECTOR): Vietnam, el país del sur, 1989 (Jaime Larrain); El fin de los tiempos, 1991 (Julio Sánchez Andrada); Viaje al español, 1992 (Nel Escudero, Fernando Mateos, Julio Sánchez Andrada); Espacios de La2, 1993 (Gabriel Laborie, Lisardo García, Pilar Larrea); Xenophobia, 1994 (Sergio Vidal); That's English!, 1995 (Fernando Mateos); Ayer fue nuestro tiempo, 1996 (Nel Escudero); Actual, 1997 (Nel Escudero); Felipe II, 1999 (José Simo); Seminci, 50 años de cine, 2005 (Enrique Monís)

DISCOGRAPHY

Omaggio a Luigi Dallapiccola. Maurizio Dini Ciacci/Orchestra Musica '900 (Dischi Ricordi: SMRL 6369, 1988)

Vietnam, el país del sur. Daniel A. Zimbaldo, synthesizers (RTVE música: RNE 640022, 1989)

Naturaleza muerta. (Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid: CBA 011, 1990)

Las escaleras del diablo. Eva Alcázar, piano (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Serie Siglo XX Vol. XV, 1994)

Voz maleva. (Logos, Edizioni Discografiche de Latina: LED 96001, 1996)

Ayer fue nuestro tiempo. Daniel A. Zimbaldo, synthesizers (RTVE música: RNE 064065, 1996)

Cartas desde el Real Hospital de Lunáticos. Gladys Cohen, mezzo-soprano; Tonino Battista/Logos Ensemble (Musique Media Mnemosyne: LDC 278 060, 1997)

Le cri étouffé (excerpt). (Asociación de Música Electroacústica de España: Música electroacústica española, 1997)

Estudio sobre una configuración fractal. (Canadian Electroacoustic Community: CEC III, 1997)

A palo seco. (Institut International de Musique Électroacoustique de Bourges: LDC 278 11 19, 2001)

Sonata opus 10. (Institut International de Musique Électroacoustique de Bourges: LDC 278 11 32, 2005)

(Last updated on January 26, 2011)