carlos stella
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carlos stella was born in buenos
aires, argentina. self-taught in composition, he studied piano at the buenos
aires national conservatory of music and in 1985 he was invited by krzysztof penderecki
to the cracow academy of music. back in buenos aires he received other
scholarships from the fondo nacional de las artes and the fundación antorchas
and began to work for the teatro del sur with director alberto félix alberto.
his style is notable for combining multiple elements of heterogeneous musical
traditions like gagaku, no and kabuki, sequences and tropes, kritis and
ragam-tanam-pallavi, baroque and rococo, kebyar, military bands, piphat, circus
music, gamelan, organa, tango, tibetan ritual music, etc. and for exploring the
possibilities of variation, imitation, parody, montage, transcription, copy,
quotation, paraphrase, trope and recurrence. typical is also his use of ideas
like kaleidoscope, labyrinth, mosaic, spiral, echo and mirror.
the frog, the moon, buddha and I, after haikus by basho, issa, buson and shiki, for female
voice and piano;
transformation of an own theme in another one
by beethoven, for three horns;
pieces for orchestra with mirrors and a countertenor;
trio: or, commedia, for oboe, bass trumpet and tuba;
quartet: pastiches, parodies and variations
on two themes by stravinsky and berio for piccolo
clarinet, trombone, xylorimba and vibraphone;
sinfonia containing various themes which may
or may not be recognized by the listener; with many parodies, imitations,
variations and mere repetitions affecting them, for 31 players;
duetto: a parody, a transcript and an
imitation of beckett, for bassoon and cello;
hockney's choclo: 10 variations, imitations
and paraphrases on piazzolla's arrangement of the tango 'el choclo' after a
picture by david hockney, for accordion, piano, violin, electric guitar and bass;
adieu ŕ venise,
after a poem by georges perec, for female voice and accordion, written for
eugenia visconti;
klavierstück in form
eines aus mehreren ab- und umwandlungen, übertragungen und nachahmungen
bekannter und unbekannter motive zusammengesetzten mosaiks, for piano, written for sawami kiyoshi;
the indian post: a piece for wind orchestra
based on a march by sousa after a south indian form,
written for the tokyio kosei wind orchestra;
15 movements from la muerte en marcha, for orchestra;
brahms im spiegelkabinett, for piccolo, violoncello and piano, written for the trio iama;
why do you smoke so much, lili?, based on a play by tennessee williams, for accordion and
piano, written for the duo lange-kiyoshi;
after all, vinnie, I am your mother! (a piece
for two soloists and continuo, a string trio and kagebayashi), for english horn, trumpet, guitar, violin, viola,
violoncello, countertenor and piano, written for the ensemble saitenblicke;
antigonai: an oper based on fragments by
sophocles and hölderlin, for three choirs and a women
trio, written for the berliner cappella;
and,
30 lieder a cappella,
written for eugenia visconti.
stella wrote music for theatre plays like alberto félix
alberto's tango
varsoviano and en los zaguanes ángeles muertos and tulio stella's europa y el toro, all directed by alberto in teatro del sur; tres
obras breves y modernas by tulio stella, dos
piezas breves de samuel beckett by césar repetto, tríptico
de exilio by sergio de loof, clowns by daniel gentile, etc.; for the films la pasión
según san juan by narcisa hirsch and billard um
halb zehn by manfred dörner, and for videos like mańana by lilian morello.
he lives in berlin, germany,
since 1999.