Rules & Prizes
1° Prizeu$s 20,000.-
2° Prizeu$s 12,000.-
3° Prizeu$s 7,000.-
4° Prizeu$s 3,500.-
5° Prizeu$s 2,000.-
6° Prizeu$s 1,500.-
Special Prizes
Ginastera Prizeu$s 2,500.-
Tango Argentino Prizeu$s 2,500.-
Alberto Lysy Prizeu$s 2,500.-
Alberto Ginastera
As an Argentine composer, Alberto Ginastera is considered one of the most outstanding Latin American authors of contemporary academic music. A precocious talent, he studied music at the Conservatorio Nacional de Buenos Aires under the tutelage of Athos Palma and José André. He then moved to the United States with a Guggenheim Scholarship, where he studied with Aaron Copland. Ginastera was able to combine folk music with avant-garde techniques of the time.
He developed a blend of compositional procedures based on random and serial methods; he also used microtones (intervals smaller than a semitone) and more traditional forms.
His second string quartet premiered at the first American Music Festival (1958) and rendered him great international prestige. With his chamber opera Bomarzo, on Manuel Mujica Lainez text (1967), he established himself as one of the most important opera composers of the twentieth century.
He is also the author of the Panambí ballet, premiered at the Colón Theatre in 1937, the Sinfonía Argentina, Cantos de Tucumán, Impresiones de la Puna, the operas Don Rodrigo and Beatríz Cenci, and the famous Cantata para América Mágica. In the 60's, Ginastera was the director of the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales in the Instituto Di Tella of Buenos Aires. He also founded the School of Musical Arts and Sciences at the Catholic University of Argentina. He died in Geneva, where he had settled, on June 25th, 1983.
Georgina Ginastera’s words (his daughter)
“It is very well known that I have already dedicated many years to spreading the musical work of my father’s…”
