Arturo Tamayo
Arturo Tamayo Ballesteros[1] (born 3 August 1946)[2] is a Spanish conductor and music teacher.[2]
Life
Tamayo studied music at the
Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid,[1] while studying Law at the Complutense University of Madrid.[2] He finally opted for music[3] and finished his studies with an honorary prize in composition.[1] He completed his training outside Spain in Basel with Pierre Boulez[4] and in Vienna with Witold Rowicki. He also studied composition with Klaus Huber and Wolfgang Fortner at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg .[2][1][5]
Between 1979 and 1998 he worked as a music teacher at the Conservatory of Freiburg im Breisgau. He combined his teaching activity as a guest conductor in several large European orchestras, including the
He then settled in Spain, where he is a professor of advanced music at the
Teatro Real de Madrid or the Teatro de la Zarzuela. [3] He has premiered pieces by Huber himself, Sylvano Bussotti and Iannis Xenakis,[3] among others, and almost all the work of the Spanish composer, José Luis de Delás. [3] Besides Spain, Germany and Austria, as an opera conductor he has performed in other European capitals such as London (Covent Garden), the Paris Opera and La Fenice in Venice.[3][6]
An academic of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Nuestra Señora de las Angustias,[1] he was awarded in 2002 the Premio Nacional de Música.[4][1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Arturo Tamayo Ballesteros". Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
- ^ a b c d e Cummings, Robert. "Arturo Tamayo" (in German). allmusic.com. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
- ^ a b c d e "Arturo Tamayo, director" (PDF). Santiago de Compostela: National Centre for the Diffusion of Music. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
- ^ a b c "Del Castillo entrega los premios nacionales de la música a Tomás Marco y Arturo Tamayo en Granada". El País. 21 June 2003. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
- ^ Arturo tamayo on All Music
- ^ Arturo Tamayo on El cultural
External links
- Literature by and about Arturo Tamayo in the German National Library catalogue
- Arturo Tamayo discography at Discogs
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