User:Lucio Bruno-Videla

Argentinian - Italian conductor and composer, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His great-grandmother was a pupil of classical composer Alberto Williams, and his grandfather was close to the circle of Enrique Cadícamo and Carlos Gardel, two renowned figures of popular music history in Argentina. He grew in this familiar background always in contact with Argentinian classical and popular music. He later studied at the National Conservatory "Carlos López Buchardo" (National Arts University) where he graduated with honours. He carried through his studies under the guide of several the leading teachers and musicians in Argentina, such as Diego Soukry (Concertmaster at the Teatro Colón Orchestra), Mario Benzecry (orchestral conduction), Antonio Russo (choral conduction), Virtú Maragno (counterpoint), Fermina Casanova (harmony and composition), Luis Arias (instrumentation), Guillermo Pozzatti (composition) and Juan Carlos Zorzi (composition). He also attended masterclasses with Kurt Masur, Hans-Peter Schurz and violin masterclasses with Eduard Daian (David Oistrakh's pupil) and Fernando Suárez Paz (Astor Piazzolla´s violinist) His musicological studies were guided by Dr. Juan María Veniard. His name became renowned when he was engaged as conductor of the National Congress Orchestra, as well as the National Congress Choir, being the youngest conductor in Argentina to receive the conduction of an official orchestra. His particular interest in music unusually performed made him a specialist in Argentine classical music, frequently consulted by American and European experts in this subject. As a conductor, his interpretations mainly remark a deep approach to the composer, enhancing the expressiveness and dramatical posibilities of each work, creating a profound impression in the audience. He is, at the same time, a pretty versatile artist, able to perform excellent versions of very different styles and composers. The rescue of important composers and scores of the Argentine musical patrimony makes him a referent for those who want to know Argentine masterworks of the period 1870-1960. Bruno Videla also conducts first performances of works by contemporary composers. Carefully interpreted his concerts of Argentine music in the Golden Hall of the Teatro Colón are specially remembered. His originality as a conductor of Argentine repertoire consists of getting a sonority rooted in Argentine interpretative tradition, which has been studied for several years by Bruno Videla, through documentation taken from different sources and the analysis of historical recordings by Argentine interpreters and composers. The descendants of Argentine composer and conductor Ernesto Drangosch (1882-1925) gave him a baton that belonged to that great musician, in symbolic gratitude for his dedication to the diffusion of Argentine classical music. As a composer, he features a very personal style that does not depend on any of the schools in vogue, although he freely uses different elements from these schools. As an exponent creator of the 21st century, he freely combines the most varied styles and techniques, which he sieves throughout structurally logical works that include turns, and surprising and unexpected sections as well. He does not refuse the usage of tonality or melody, but, at the same time, he combines these elements with aleatoric elements (as in his Trio Op. 10), clusters, quotations (Sonata for Piano), collage (Variazioni sopra il “Tico-Tico”), folklorism and approaches to diverse popular music (songs), neoclassical forms (Sonatas for solo Violin), atonalism, non-conventional usage of the instruments (Suite Coreográfica), analogical graphics, etc., that give his works an aesthetical plurality, placing him among the post-modern and post-avant-garde composers. Besides those listed before, the following can be cited amongst his most representative works: Sonata for Violin and Violoncello (dedicated to violinist Lucia Hall), Sonata for solo Violoncello (dedicated to Teodora Miteva), and the Concert for Violin and Orchestra (dedicated to violinist Édua Zadory), the latter work featuring a great instrumental display and a plurality of resources. He has also composed music for films, two musical comedies and more than 200 arrangements for the most diverse vocal and instrumental combinations. In 2002, he founded and conducted the Orquesta Clásica Latinoamericana (Latin American Classical Orchestra), in Vienna, Austria, this being the first European organism exclusively dedicated to the diffusion of Latin American classical music. This orchestra, with a real ecumenical character, included musicians from three different continents. Bruno Videla was named Invited Member by the Consejo Argentino de la Música (CAMU-UNESCO) and Advisor in the Latin American Art Song Alliance, USA.

Official website: www.luciobrunovidela.com