Juan María Solare


Juan María Solare is an Argentine composer and pianist.

Education

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Solare studied and received his diploma in piano, composition and conducting at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo. He also studied privately with Francisco Kröpfl.
Between 1993 and 1996 he undertook postgraduate studies on Composition at the Musikhochschule in Cologne under the guidance of Johannes Fritsch, Clarence Barlow, and Mauricio Kagel, in the frame of a scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service. Between October 1997 and February 1999, he did postgraduate studies with Helmut Lachenmann in Stuttgart. Between 1999 and 2001 studied electronic music with in Cologne, with diploma. From June 2001 until May 2002 he was composer in residence at the, Germany.
In April 2005 he obtained the title "Licenciado en Composición" from the Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte in Buenos Aires. Since 1993 he has regularly attended and participated in seminars given by Karlheinz Stockhausen. He passed the Konzertexamen in electroacoustic composition at the Musikhochschule in Cologne on 5 December 2007. Currently he is working on a PhD in music education at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Teaching positions

From 1986 until 1993 he taught harmony, morphology, and chamber music at the Conservatory of Tandil. Since January 2002 he has given piano lessons at the Musikschule Bremen. Since October 2002 he has conducted the Orquesta No Típica, a chamber music group devoted to tango at the University of Bremen. Since October 2004 he has taught piano at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen. From December 2007 to April 2008 he was Assistant Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Since 2008 he has taught New Music Theatre at the University of Bremen, where he conducts the Ensemble Kagel.
He has given courses and lectures on contemporary music at the Institut für neue Musik und Musikerziehung, the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, the Ateneo de Madrid, the Université permanente, and the Texas A&M University.
In addition, he teaches piano and composition privately, and has presented public seminars on tango music.

Compositions

Solare has composed around 300 works, over half of them already performed. His pieces are broadcast regularly.
In 2002 he received a commission from the CDMC, in 2003 from the Kunststiftung NRW ; in 2004 again from CDMC and from the Landesmusikrat Bremen, in 2011 from Eva Espoleta. On 30 June 2004 his Concertango was premiered by the Orchestra of the Universität Bremen.

Film music

He also composed the music for six short films:
Solare has also written music for internet animations, mainly for movies of the Catalan artist Nuria Juncosa.

Pianist

As a pianist, his repertoire has four centers: classical music from the late Romanticism, contemporary classical, Argentine composers, and his own compositions – both as soloist and in different chamber music groups, notably:
Solare has performed in cities of Argentina, Germany, the rest of Europe and USA:
His first professional recording as a pianist was in July 2006 in Geneva: together with the Saxophonist Eduardo Kohan he recorded the CD Tango Nómade.
His first solo cd appeared in January 2010: Tango Monologues. Recording of his pieces "Acuarelas junto al río inmóvil", "Aphorismen", and "Sechs kleine Klavierstücke" von Arnold Schönberg.
Juan María Solare also participated with Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame, a concert performance series with Vox Novus

Conductor

His compositions have been awarded prizes and awards in
As a pianist, Solare received awards at the following competitions:
Thirteen CDs from different performers include at least one of his pieces:
Solare has been dedicated pieces by several colleagues:
Some of his works have been published by Dohr Verlag, Ricordi München, and peermusic.
Beside his compositional and pianistic activities he also has written for diverse publications, such as the New Grove, La Sibila Sevilla, Doce Notas and ABC Madrid, Pauta and L'Orfeo, Tempo, as well as for the radio stations Deutsche Welle and Südwestfunk.
About 30 of his 200 published articles can be found online.