Eduardo Marturet | |
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| Background information | |
| Born | September 19, 1953 Caracas, Venezuela |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, conductor |
| Instruments | Piano, Percussion |
| Associated acts | The Miami Symphony Orchestra |
| Website | www |
Eduardo Marturet (born September 19, 1953) is a Venezuelan conductor and composer represented by Tempo Primo. He is the Music Director and Conductor of The Miami Symphony Orchestra (MISO)
Eduardo Marturet enjoys an active career on three continents. As the Music Director and Conductor of The Miami Symphony Orchestra, he remains deeply involved in the musical life of his native Venezuela and continues to guest conduct actively in Europe. He has made more than 60 CDs that range from a Brahms orchestral cycle to surveys of Latin America's greatest orchestral composers.
European orchestras with which he has had an active guest conducting relationship include Berliner Symphoniker, European Community Chamber Orchestra, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, RAI Symphony Orchestra, Danish Radio Symphony, Royal Flemish Philarmonique, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Gelders Orkest, Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic, Budapest Radio Symphony, Brabant Orkest, and Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra in Amsterdam. In 2001, he led the Berliner Symphoniker on a 12-concert tour of major South American cities including Caracas, São Paulo, Cordoba, Montevideo and Buenos Aires. A documentary of the tour was broadcast through the region by DirecTV.
Born in Caracas, Marturet studied in Cambridge, England where he became firmly rooted in the European tradition, obtaining a degree in Piano, Percussion, Conducting, and Composition. In 1979, he returned to Venezuela with a permanent position with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Caracas as Associate Conductor and later as Artistic Director to the Orquesta Sinfónica Venezuela, where he served in that position until 1995. Presently, he maintains close contact with the Venezuelan National Youth Orchestra movement, giving advice and support in aid of poor children.
With the opening of the Teresa Carreño Theatre in Caracas in 1984, Marturet became its first Music Director. After three years of bringing challenging and original productions to the stage, he resigned from the Theatre to dedicate himself entirely to an international career, conducting in Italy, Greece, France, Spain, England, Denmark, Holland, Korea, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, Canada and the United States.
He made his Asian debut with the Seoul Philharmonic in 2003, a year when he also opened the Chorin Summer Festival in Berlin and made his debut with the Buenos Aires Philharmonic in Argentina and the Florida Philharmonic in Miami.
In 2006, he received a Latin Grammy nomination for "Encantamento" in the category of Best Classical Album conducting the Berliner Symphoniker.
Since 2006 he has been the Music Director and Conductor of the Miami Symphony Orchestra, during his 15-year tenure Maestro Marturet has taken MISO into the world-class professional symphony of Miami developing a unique classical-crossover repertoire in alliance with great producers such as Emilio Estefan, Rudy Perez and Burt Bacharach.
In October 2012, he was named one of the “100 most influential latinos in Miami”. The ceremony was performed by Fusionarte Association, Pan-American Foundation and Televisa publishing. This same year, in March, the flag of the United States was flown over the U.S. Capitol in honor of Eduardo Marturet, who received the Medal of Merit of the U.S. Congress in recognition for his outstanding and invaluable service to the community. More recently, in 2019, was included into the Genius 100 Visions Group, “an active and engaged community of 100 exceptionally imaginative and impactful human beings. Genius 100 brings accomplished and compassionate minds together to re-imagine the future - and to implement creative initiatives to improve it.
The organization is inspired by Albert Einstein’s words: “A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels,” and it includes world renown luminaries like US Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, architect Frank Gehry, and conductor Zubin Mehta, all great visionaries [who] raise the bar on what is achievable within their fields. Collectively, in collaboration, they can make the impossible possible.
His wife Athina Klioumi is a Greek born actress, fashion model, producer philanthropist that supports The Miami Symphony Orchestra.
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Eduardo Marturet was born in Caracas in 1953. In 1971, after graduating as a science major in Venezuela, took residency in Cambridge, England, for 9 years. At the University of East Anglia he received his degree in Piano, Percussion, Composition, and Conducting, the specialty for which he is best known both in Venezuela and abroad.
As a pupil of Kathlin Wood, Alexis Rago and Roger Smalley, his special interest in new music led him, in 1976, to become founding president of the CCAT Contemporary Music Society; and also invited to join the SPNM Society for the Promotion of New Music and play his compositions. He became Music Director of the Cambridge Contemporary Dance Group, for whom he wrote and performed a number of works. After two years in Cambridge, as Music Director with the Arbury Orchestra, he returned to Venezuela in 1979 as Associate Conductor with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Caracas, thus beginning a long career as a conductor. He was the first Music Director at the Teresa Carreño Theatre, a position he held for three years before turning his full attention to a busy international career and his current activity as Artistic Director of the Sinfonietta Caracas and Artistic Director with the Orquesta Sinfónica Venezuela from 1987 until 1995.
Since his early days as a student in Cambridge, Marturet considered the “concert” to be an obsolete form of expression, from the standpoint of the creator. Despite his great success as a composer, over a period of seven years, he only wrote three scores that followed the traditional form of orchestral music: Notturno 1980, Sol por Occidente 1982, and Secretos 1986; Rubén Monasterios, the critic from the Caracas daily El Nacional had this to say about his debut: “The score written for this work by Eduardo Marturet is one of the most inspired of all those we have heard by contemporary Venezuelan composers in recent times.”
It does seem a paradox for a successful conductor to be the person proposing a split between the concert hall and new music. In 1980, Marturet founded MUSICA VIVA, a trio specializing in contemporary music.
In 1982, Marturet was entrusted with the musical design for the Venezuelan pavilion at the Epcot Center in Florida, USA. Although never brought to fruition, this project was fundamental for the further evolution of the ideas regarding environmental music that he had been playing with since his days as a student in Cambridge. Marturet experiments and develops concepts of his own, such as “soundscape architecture” and the subliminal effect of sounds that are inaudible to the human ear.
It was in 1986 that he turned firmly back to composing. His Canto LLano 1976, his most often-played work, as well as Secretos 1986, and his music for the Franco-Venezuelan movie Oriana 1985 (prize for best music at the Mérida Festival ‘86), already included elements of “environmental music,” and the feeling of sound manipulated in “real time,” which is the conceptual cornerstone of the 24-hour macroformat conceived for the music at Casa Bonita 1988: this composition consists of three great simultaneous works, each lasting eight hours, where the composer has poured in the results of 15 years of research and reflection about sound.
“Any attempt to explain Casa Bonita must first mention Eduardo Marturet, unquestionably one of the greatest talents in present-day Venezuela. This involves more than just discovering the composer, known up to now as a brilliant conductor. In the unconventional being that overflows with a work that fills the three main halls of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas.”
— Pedro López, El Siglo, 19.2.88
“Eduardo Marturet is one of the few composers today working with extended duration time structures. His CABRE from Casa Bonita creates an electronic sound environment which demonstrates the composer’s craft from the level of minute microcosmic points to an expanded form of suspended macrocosmic euphoria inspired by meditation.”
— La Monte Young, New York, 10.10.88
His most productive period began in the 1990s, with the composition of experimental works such as Las Campanas del Silencio (for all the belfries in the world) 1992, the chamber music pieces Tres Tiempos 1990, Música para 6 y Saxo 1992, La Hamaca 1998, Paramytha 2002, and the symphonic works Siglos de Luz 1995, Capricho Criollo 1996, Mantra 1997, Memorias de un Bravo Pueblo 2002.
In 2004 he received the “Best Music” prize awarded by ANAC (National Association of Cinema Authors) for the soundtrack of the movie Manuela Sáenz ("Best Music" Caracas Municipal Prize, 2000). 10.2004
| Name | Year | Place | Instrumentation | Notes |
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| Turtle Magic | 2015 | Miami | For full orchestra and image projection | featuring the work of MISO's YEP project |
| VARIATIONS on With a Little Help from my Friends | 2014 | Miami | For full orchestra, solo voice & chorus | --- |
| Candy Island | 2014 | Miami | For full orchestra and image projection | featuring the work of MISO's Music Arts Challenge project |
| Two Readings of Waldo | 2013 | Miami | For full orchestra and image projection | featuring the work of visual artist Waldo Balart |
| Latidos del Tíbet | 2011 | Caracas | For solo Tibetan Bowls and full orchestra | --- |
| Memorias de Un Bravo Pueblo | 2002 | Caracas | For piano solo, side drum and strings | --- |
| Mantra | 1997 | Caracas | For full orchestra | --- |
| Capricho Criollo | 1996 | Caracas | For full orchestra | Commissioned by División de Alimentos de las Empresas Polar |
| Siglos de Luz | 1995 | Caracas | For solo guitar, solo percussion & full orchestra | Commissioned by CA ELECTRICIDAD DE CARACAS |
| XXXIII Variations on a German Theme | 1989 | Caracas | For full orchestra | Commissioned by the German Government |
| Music for the ballet "Secretos" | 1986 | Caracas | For full orchestra | Commissioned by Danza Hoy |
| Sol por Occidente | 1982 | Caracas | For full orchestra | Commissioned by 2nd Festival of Latin American Music |
| Notturno | 1981 | Caracas | For full orchestra | --- |
| Name | Year | Place | Instrumentation | Notes |
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| Paramythia | 2002 | Anthoussa | For harp solo | Commissioned by Arpas A.C. |
| La Hamaca | 1998 | Caracas | For guitar, flute and güiro | Published by Ediciones Tempo Primo, 1998 |
| Música para 6 y Saxo | 1992 | Caracas | For 6 instruments ‘ad lib’ & solo tenor saxophon | Commissioned by Sinfonietta Caracas Published by Ediciones Tempo Primo, 1992 |
| Tres Tiempos | 1990 | Caracas | For piano solo or guitar duo | Published by Ediciones Tempo Primo, 1990 |
| Canto LLano | 1976 | Cambridge | For a capella instrument/voice & tape delay system, or any combination of instrumental/voice forces | Published by Ediciones Tempo Primo, 2004. Published by Hubertus Nogatz Editor – K&N 1209, 1991 |
| Mi Marioneta tiene Tres Caras | 1974 | Cambridge | For piano solo | Published by Ediciones Tempo Primo, 1992 |
| Name | Year | Place | Instrumentation | Notes |
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| Soundtrack for the film "Miranda" | 2006 | Caracas | For full orchestra | Award: "Best Music" Festival de Mérida, 2006 |
| Soundtrack for the film "Manuela Saenz" | 2000 | Caracas | --- | Award: "Best Music" ANAC de Caracas, 2004. Award: "Camara d'Or" Festival de Cannes, 2000 |
| Soundtrack for the film "Oriana" | 1984 | Caracas | --- | Award: "Best Music" Premio Municipal de Caracas, 1986. Award: "Best Music" Festival de Mérida, 1985 |
| Name | Year | Place | Instrumentation | Notes |
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| @ Zaha's Place | 2015 | Miami | For Mixed Techniques | Published by PRIVATE MUSIC, 2015 Read more... |
| Las Campanas del Silencio | 1992 | Caracas | For all the bells of the world | Published by Ediciones Tempo Primo, 1992 |
| "Casa Bonita" (The 24 Hours) | 1988 | Caracas | For Mixed Techniques | Commissioned by the Caracas Contemporary Arts Museum Read more... |
| Musica Viva | 1980 | Caracas | For Mixed Techniques | Commissioned by the Caracas Contemporary Arts Museum Read more... |
| Piezas Cinéticas | 1975 | Caracas | For piano solo | Published by Ediciones Tempo Primo, 1975 |
| Name | Year | Place | Instrumentation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oblivion (Astor Piazzolla) | 2009 | Caracas | For solo violonchelo and orchestra | Published by Ediciones Tempo Primo, 2009 |
| Adios Nonino (Astor Piazzolla/Bragato) | 2009 | Caracas | For solo violonchelo and orchestra | Published by Ediciones Tempo Primo, 2009 |
| Langsamer Satz (Anton Webern) | 2009 | Miami | For orchestra | Published by Ediciones Tempo Primo, 2009 |
| Otoño (Franco De Vita) | 2006 | Miami | For orchestra | Published by Ediciones Tempo Primo, 2006 |
| Adios Nonino (Astor Piazzolla/Bragato) | 2001 | Berlin | For orchestra | Published by Ediciones Tempo Primo, 2001 |
| Oblivion (Astor Piazzolla) | 2001 | Berlin | For orchestra | Published by Ediciones Tempo Primo, 2001 |
Principal Orchestras:
(Miami, USA)
(Berlin, Germany)
(Caracas, Venezuela)
(Caracas, Venezuela)
(Buenos Aires, Argentina)
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
(Stavanger, Norway)
(Latin America)
(Netherlands)
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(Germany)
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(Italy)
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