Brief Biography

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Damián Gorandi (Argentinean, born in 1991). He is currently a master student in Instrumental composition at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in the class of Stefano Gervasoni.

He attended the IRCAM Course in Composition and in Computer Music in Paris. 

He has finished his higher studies of composition at the Haute école des arts du Rhin Strasbourg. He studied electroacoustic music at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, Germany. In Argentina he obtained the superior title of professor in composition at the Alberto Ginastera Conservatory. 

He has worked with instrumental ensembles such as Ensemble InterContemporaine, Ensemble Linea, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Accroche Note, Ensemble L'Imaginaire, the Untref  string quartet, the Barcelona Modern Ensemble, Ensemble Fractals,Ensemble Synaesthesis, Ensmeble Intercolor, among others. His music is frequently programmed in Europe, North and South America and Asia in festivals as  Manifeste (Paris), Festival Musica (Strasbourg), National Philharmonic of Moscow,  Next generation at the ZKM (Germany), the Festival Nycemf in New York, the Festival Crossroads Mozarteum (Vienne), Samplers Series (L’auditori, Barcelona), in the CCK (Buenos Aires), Seoul International Computer Music Festiva (Korea), Le festival Arsmondo organized by L'Opéra national du Rhin, Among, others. 

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He has followed the teachings of  Stefano Gervasoni, Luis Naon, Yan Maresz, Daniel D'Adamo, Tom Mays, Jorge Sad, Elsa Justel, Robin Minard, Joao Pedro Oliveira, Thierry de Mey.

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 He has won many international prizes, some of them like the Ina-GRM - Concours Banc d'Essai, 1st Prix Internationale Sommerakademie Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien 2018, 1 ̊ Prize Taukay Edizioni Musicali international composition competition, the 1 ̊  Russolo Prize, International prix Ibermusicas. 1 ̊ prize of the Fundation Destellos, 1 ̊ prize KLANG! International Composition,1 ̊ prize in the international competitions of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar, 2 ̊ prize in the international competition Via nova contemporary music Thüringen, among others. From Argentina he won the 1 ̊ Sadaic prize, 1 ̊ Trinac prize (2016 and 2017), The prix "Juan carlos Paz", 1 ̊ Triarg Prize, among others. 

 

He has been invited as judge in several international competitions such as the competition of  Fundation Destellos or the Iannis Xenakis International Electronic Music Competition (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). As professor has been invited 

 by the Haute école des arts de Berne to give courses and lessons in acousmatic composition. 

 

He received the support of Gisela Timmermann grant from the Mozarteum Argentino, also

 from Ibermusicas and from and  from the Conservatoire de Strasbourg after winning the Notoriety scholarship.