Mario Davidovsky

Mario Davidovsky (born March 4, 1934) is an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US, where he lives today. He is best known for his series of compositions called Synchronisms, which in live performance incorporate both acoustic instruments and electroacoustic sounds played from a tape.

Biography

Davidovsky was born in Médanos, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, a town nearly 600 km southwest of the city of Buenos Aires and close to the seaport of Bahía Blanca. At seven he began his musical studies on the violin. At thirteen he began composing. He studied composition and theory under Guillermo Graetzer at the University of Buenos Aires, from which he graduated.

In 1958, he studied with Aaron Copland and Milton Babbitt at the Berkshire Music Center (now the Tanglewood Music Center) in Lenox, Massachusetts. Through Babbitt, who worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, and others, Davidovsky developed an interest in electroacoustic music. Copland encouraged Davidovsky to emigrate to the United States, and in 1960, Davidovsky settled in New York City, where he was appointed associate director of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.

Most of his published compositions since the 1970s have been nonelectronic. His only published electroacoustic compositions since that time are Synchronisms No. 9 (1988) and Synchronisms No. 10 (1992). However, Davidovsky received a commission by a group led by SEAMUS to compose two more electroacoustic works in the Synchronisms series. No. 11 and No. 12 premiered in 2007 at the SEAMUS National Conference in Ames, IA.

Davidovsky's association with the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center continued, and from 1981 to 1993 he was the lab's director as well as professor of music at Columbia.[1] In 1994 he became professor of music at Harvard.[1] During his career, Davidovsky has also taught at many other institutions: University of Michigan (1964), the Di Tella Institute of Buenos Aires (1965), the Manhattan School of Music (1968–69), Yale University (1969–70), and the City College of New York (1968–80).[1]

He serves on the composition faculty of Mannes College The New School for Music.[2]

In 1982, Davidovsky was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[3]

Personal life

Davidovsky married Ellen Blaustein in 1961.[4]

Awards

Fellowships

Works

Discography

Notable students

References

  1. 1 2 3 Mario Davidovsky biography at Collage New Music, Boston at the Wayback Machine (archived July 25, 2011)
  2. ↑ Mario Davidovsky faculty profile at Mannes College The New School for Music
  3. ↑ List of academicians at the American Academy of Arts and Letters. "Mario Davidovsky --- Music --- 1982"
  4. ↑ "Bio: Mario Davidovsky", NNDB
  5. ↑ http://www.as-coa.org/events/international-contemporary-ensemble-mario-davidovsky

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