CURRICULUM VITAE
Marcelo TOLEDO
Composer
marcelotoledomusic.com
Date & Place of Birth: September 2nd 1964, Posadas, Misiones, Argentina
Citizenship: Argentine
Languages: Fluent in English, Spanish, spoken Portuguese
EDUCATION
• Doctor in Musical Arts, May 2004 Columbia University
• Master of Music, May 1995 Syracuse University
• Bachelor Degree in Music, 1992 National University of Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
• Berliner Kunstlerprogramm Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst 2009-2010
• Mellon Fellowship Columbia University 1998-2004
• Ensemble Intercontemporain 2002 1st Prize and commission
• Spanish National Radio, Radio Clásica, 1st Prize and commission for radio opera
• Dr. Boris and Edo Rapaport Prize Columbia University 2001
• Syracuse University Master Prize from the College of Visual and Performing Arts 1995
• National University of Litoral Scientific Research Program “Stravinsky or the Sculpture of Time” 1991-1993
• State Government Prize Santa Fe, Argentina, Music Composition 1991
COMMISSIONS
• Luminous Emptiness for 7 instruments 2011-2012
Commissioned by the Essl Museum, Vienna, for Wien Modern Festival 2012
• Notturno Stuttgart for 19 instruments 2012
Commissioned by Musik der Jahrhunderte for New Music Summer Festival Stuttgart
• New work for 6 voices
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart Commission 2012
• Qualia II for solo bassoon 2012
Commissioned by Rebekah Heller
• Qualia I for viola and tape 2011
Commissioned by CCEBA for Instrumentos Solos 2011
• Notturno for 4 musicians 2010
Commissioned by Berliner Kunstlerprogramm Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
• En la impenetrable maraña de lo no-nombrado for 24 voices
Commissioned by SWR South West German Radio, Commission 2009
• Three pieces for 6 Voices from La selva interior
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart Commission 2009
• Logomaquia for trp trb tuba percussion and tape 2009
Commissioned by DAAD and Poesiefestival Berlin
• Heterofonías for five contrabass clarinets
Festival Fünf Plus Eins, Berlin Commission 2009
• Continuación de la Nada for clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano
Ensemble Counter)induction, New York Commission 2008
• La cabeza de Goliat 2008 for solo violin
The Institute for the Cooperation of Art Research Commission 2008
• Polifonía concreta 2008 for solo bass flute
The Institute for the Cooperation of Art Research Commission 2008
• Ondulaciones del ahora for solo cello
SWR South West German Radio, Commission 2007
• La selva interior (The Jungle Within) Chamber Opera
Colon Theater Experimental Center, Argentina Commission 2006
• Para el encuentro en los abismos, for 24 musicians
Ensemble Intercontemporain Commission 2003
• De qué modo en lo anónimo Radio opera
CDMC & National Radio Spain Commission 2002
COURSES, SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS
• International Festival of Contemporary Music Monterrey, Mexico, Composition Workshop 2012
• Bienal Composición Córdoba, Argentina Composition Seminar 2012
• Post Graduate Composition Seminar, Cuyo National University, Mendoza, Argentina 2011
• CCBA Spanish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Seminar on instrumental techniques 2010
• Univeristät der Künste Berlin, Germany. Composition Seminar 2009
• Instrumenta Oaxaca Composition Workshop and New Music Festival 2008
• Columbia University Graduate Course Music Since 1945, 2008
• Musik der Jahrhunderte & Columbia University Director of Composition Workshop 2005-2006
• New York University, Music Dept Harmony and Counterpoint course 2008
• Columbia University Instructor, Music Humanities 1999-2004
• Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Composition Classes 2007
• Sarah Lawrence College Spanish Culture and Literature, New York 2007-2008
• International Festival of Contemporary Music Mexico, Composition Workshop 2003
• National University of Litoral, School of Music, Santa Fe, Argentina, Composition Seminars 2003-2004
• National University of Misiones, School of the Arts, Visiting Professor 1999-2000
"Visual and Aural Experience: Morton Feldman & the Abstract Expressionists”
"Visual Imagination in the Music of lannis Xenakis”
• Syracuse University Teaching Assistant, Electronic Music Studio, 1993-1995
LECTURES
• Harvard University, Musical material & perception, October 1st 2012
• Spanish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, “Sin extension sin centro” 2010
• Conservatorio Superior de Musica Manuel de Falla, Buenos Aires, Composing for Flute 2010
• Univeristät der Künste, Berlin "On composition, notation, material" March 2009
• Stanford University Music Composition Faculty Search, Final Candidate Lecture 2008
• Sarah Lawrence College, La selva interior, Imaginary Opera, 2008
• Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Conlon Nancarrow Lecture Series 2007
• Radio Educación, Mexico City. Conference “New Music and Society” 2007
• Goethe Institute NY International Composers Conference Art & Society/Periphery &Center 2006
• National University of Misiones, Argentina “Compositional Strategies for the Radio Opera 2005
• Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay, “A Map of Noise in New Music" 2004
• National University of La Plata, School of the Arts, La Plata, Arg. “New Instrumental Resources” 2004
• National Institute of the Arts, Bs As, Arg. “ Peripheries: composing outside the European Tradition” 2004
• Center of Advanced Studies in Contemporary Music, Buenos Aires, Argentina, “New Compositional Resources in Late Twentieth Century Music” 2004
• Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina, “The Concept of Macro-sound, Fusion of Harmony, Timbre, and Rhythm” 2004
PREMIERES
Wien Modern 2012 SCHÖMER-HAUS Luminous Emptiness for 7 instruments 2011-2012
Stuttgart New Music Summer Festival 2012 Notturno Stuttgart for 19 instruments
Rebekah Heller Solo Concert New York Qualia II for solo bassoon 2012
CCEBA for Instrumentos Solos, Buenos Aires, Argentina Qualia I for viola and tape 2011
Claire Chase Solo Recital New York City 60!!! For solo flute 2011
Venice Notturno for 4 musicians 2010 KNM Berlin
SWR and Musik Fabric Concert Series En la impenetrable maraña de lo no nombrado (In the impenetrable tangle of the unnamed) for 24 voices, 2010 SWR Vokalensemble. March 2010
Ultraschall Festival Berlin 2010 Imaginary Opera La selva interior (The Jungle Within) Complete version Premiered January 28th 2010 by the Neue Vocalsolisten and KNM Berlin.
Marcelo Toledo Portrait Concert November 27th 2009 Ex Biblioteca Nacional, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Proyecto Resplandecencias and Trio Música Impura.
Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea, Córdoba, Argentina. Geometrías fugitivas for bass clarinet, cello and piano, Trio Música Impura.
Ciclo de Música Contemporánea Teatro San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Logomaquia 2009 for Trumpet, trombone, tuba, percussion and tape. Text by Nora Iuga. Performed by KammerEnsemble Neue Musik Berlin. Premiered November 12 2009, Dur 14’. Commissioned by DAAD.
Festival Fünf Plus Eins, Berlin. Heterofonías 2009 for five contrabass clarinets. Dur. 14'. Premiered September 17th by Theo Nabicht, Hans Koch, Chris Heenan, Arman Angster, Manfred Spitaler, and Carl Rosman. Commissioned by Theo Nabicht and the DAAD.
Concert at the City Hall Rotes Rathaus, Berlin. En la más ardua oscuridad 2009 for bass clarinet, cello and piano. Dur 7’. Premiered by KammerEnsemble Neue Musik Berlin. June 4th 2009 Berlin.
Concert Series at the Americas Society, New York Continuación de la Nada 2008 for clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano. Dur 15' Commissioned by Ensemble Counter)induction. Premiered at Americas Society, New York, December 1st 2008.
2007 International Cello Competition Stuttgart. Premiere of Ondulaciones del ahora for solo cello. South West German Radio Commission. Eva Böcker, cello.
2007 National Flute Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, Mariana Stratta Lecture on “New Sounds New Worlds, the music for flute of Marcelo Toledo”, August 9, 2007.
Colon Theater, Buenos Aires, Argentina La selva interior (The Jungle Within) 2006 Chamber Opera. For ten instruments, soprano and prerecorded sounds. Premiered August 18-27, 2006. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2006 ISCM World New Music Festival Stuttgart, Ensemble Recherche Resplandecencias de la nada July 15, 2006.
Exhibition Sound Object, musical manuscripts, visual images, and sound projection of Para el encuentro en los abismos, Columbia University School of the Arts, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York. Curated by Dean Bruce W. Ferguson, January 20 to February 17, 2004, New York City.
PUBLICATIONS
• Pensar la música hoy…olvidar la música
Nuevas poéticas en la música contemporánea argentina. Pablo Fessel
Libros de Música, Biblioteca Nacional, Buenos Aires Argentina 2007
• Mapa del Ruido en la Música del Siglo XX
Perspectiva Interdiciplinaria de Música, Vol 1 Num. 1 Mexico 2006
• Sinestesia del Espacio-Tiempo
Aquenó, Revista de Letras, Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Num 3 Argentina 2004
ACADEMIC WRITINGS
• Composing with Fluid Noises, a Personal Approach Techniques and Aesthetics of Complex Fluid Sounds
Columbia University Doctoral Dissertation 2004
• Stravinsky or The Sculpture of Time, Study of the Organization of Musical Time in His Work
Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina 1993
LIST OF COMPOSITIONS
Luminous Emptiness for seven musicians 2012 Dur 75’
Notturno Stuttgart for 19 instruments 2012 Dur 40’
Dos miradas fugaces a la noche for two bassoons 2012 Dur 5’
Qualia II for bassoon and prerecorded sounds 2012 Dur 8’
60!!! 2011 for solo flute Dur 4’
Qualia III 2011 for two violas, cello and tape Dur 22'
Qualia I 2011 for solo viola and tape. Dur 18'
Notturno 2010 for four musicians. Dur 20’
En la impenetrable maraña de lo no nombrado 2010, for 24 voices. Dur 15’
Three Works for 6 Voices 2009. New sections of the work La selva interior. Dur 15’.
Agonía Grave 2009 for solo bass voice playing a double bass. New section of La selva interior. Dur 3’
Brut Nature 2009 for solo baritone saxophone. Dur 9’
La cabeza de Goliat II 2009 for solo violin. Dur 7'
Logomaquia 2009 for Trumpet, trombone, tuba, percussion and tape. Text by Nora Iuga. Dur 14’.
Heterofonías 2009 for five contrabass clarinets. Dur. 13'
En la más ardua oscuridad 2009 for bass clarinet, cello and piano. Dur 7’
Continuación de la Nada 2008 for clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano. Dur 10’
La cabeza de Goliat 2008 for solo violin. Dur. 4’
Polifonía concreta 2008 for solo bass flute.
Ondulaciones del ahora 2007 for solo cello. Dur.15’
La selva interior 2006 Opera for ensemble of ten instruments, soprano and prerecorded sounds. Dur. 60’
Para el encuentro en los abismos 2003 for 24 musicians. Dur. 20’
Bibliografía del silencio 2003, for solo bass flute and prerecorded flutes. Dur. 7’
De qué modo en lo anónimo 2002 Radio opera. Dur. 30'. Based on a text by Juan José Saer.
Nada, nada 2002, for eight amplified flutes. Dur.12’
Resplandecencias de la nada 2002 for seven instruments. Dur. 13'
¿Qué se llama cuanto heriza nos? 2001 for 10 instruments. Dur. 16'
Estruendomudo (Thunderdumb) 2000 for amplified horn, trp, trb, didjeridoo, perc, and electronics. Dur. 10'
Bocanada elíptica (Elliptic Blast) 2000 for 15 instruments. Dur. 9'
Las soledades mudas del mundo (The Silent Solitude of the World) 2000 for amplified trumpet. Dur. 8'
El ir a qué con meta 1999 for 9 instruments. Dur. 12'
Rezongos (Grumbles) 1998 for wind quintet, piano, eight voices, and bandoneon. Text by John Cage. Dur. 8'
Geometrías fugitivas (Fleeting Geometries) 1998 for bass clarinet, cello, and piano, Dur. 8'
Aliento /Arrugas (Breath/Furrows) 1998 for solo flute. Dur. 5'
Amarillo rabioso (Rabid Yellow) 1998 electroacoustic music. Dur. 6'
Pulso herido (Wounded Pulse) 1996 for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and piano. Dur. 10'
Capas remotas (Remote Layers) 1996 for flute and percussion. Dur. 20'
Suspended Moieties 1995 for string orchestra, piano, and four percussionists. Dur. 10'
Recycled Circles 1995-96 for two percussionists and electronic sounds. Dur 10'
Como astros ... arde 1995 for three flutes, Dur. 12'
Siete susurros desiguales 1994 for bass clarinet, cello, and horn. Dur. 12’
Unwind Time 1994 for 7 instruments. Dur. 10’
