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Sergio CervettiGuigou (born 9 November 1940 in Dolores, Soriano) is a Uruguayan composer and teacher domiciled in the United States. [1] [2] His early compositional language reflects the post serialist Uruguayan avant-garde, often employing electronics and complex graphical notation. [3] He gained international prominence in 1966 when he achieved first place with 5 Episodes for Piano Trio in the Inter-American Music Festival in Caracas, Venezuela. [4] [5] His compositions have been widely recorded on labels such as Albany Records, [6] Vienna Modern Masters, [7] and Navona Records, [8] [9] which have been reviewed in Gramophone [10] and The Washington Post . [11] His music has been played by renowned orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra [12] and New York City Opera. [13]

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Biography

Sergio Cervetti was exposed to music at a young age by his parents. [14] His Italian father was a clarinettist and his French mother helped motivate him to learn the piano. [15] His early piano studies were with José María Martino Rodas and Hugo Balzo and later studied counterpoint and harmony at the National Conservatory with Carlos Estrada and Guido Santorsola. [16]

In 1962 he left Uruguay to study composition in the United States [17] [18] at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore under Austrian-born composer Ernst Krenek [10] and South African composer Stefans Grové, [19] graduating in 1967. [20]

In 1969, Cervetti, went to Berlin to take up a one-year DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program composer-in-residence. [5] Whilst in Germany he received Baden-Baden commissions [21] and wrote an a cappella work Lux Lucet In Tenebris which won a Gaudeamus International Composers Award which was premiered at the festival in Zwolle. [22] [23]

Selected works

Chamber

Opera

Orchestra

Solo instrument or voice

Works with electronics or tape

Discography

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  16. ↑ II Festival de Música de América y España [Music Festival of America and Spain] (in Spanish). Madrid: Instituto de Cultura Hispánica. 14–28 October 1967. El compositor uruguayo Sergio Cervetti nació en noviembre de 1940. Realizó sus estudios de Piano bajo la dirección de Hugo Balzo y José Martino Rodas, y contrapunto con Carlos Estrada y Guido Santorsola.
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  46. 1 2 3 4 Dal Farra, Ricardo L. (January 2006). Un voyage du son par les fils électroacoustiques l'art et les nouvelles technologies en Amérique Latine (PDF) (PhD thesis). Retrieved 22 September 2024. Cervetti composed several pieces using electroacoustic media: Studies in Silence, a taped version of modified piano and voices in 1968; Oulom for tape, in 1970; Grafitti for orchestra, spoken choir and tape in 1971; Raga III for tape, in 1971; Bits & pieces and Moving Parts for tape in 1977...
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  48. ↑ Heinlein, Federico (14 May 1976). "Recital de León Biriotti" (PDF). Crítica musical. Retrieved 22 September 2024. "Stella Vindemiatrix", de Sergio Cervetti, combina cinco oboes, cuatro de ellos previamente grabados en cinta magnética por Biriotti.
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