Oscar Strasnoy

12/11/1970

Born in Buenos Aires (French/Argentinean citizen)

1978>>

Studies of piano, harmony, counterpoint and violin

1986-88

Conservatorio Nacional de Buenos Aires : piano and conducting

Scholarhip of the Antorchas Foundation (Arg)

1992-98

Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMP) : composition, 1st price (final examination) in 1996, master degree. Professeurs : Gérard Grisey, Michaël Levinas

1994

1º prize at the french-australian composition competition

Scholarship of the French Government

1995

Incognito at the Philharmonie, Berlin

Scholarship of Mozarteum Argentino

1996-98

Musical director (main conductor) of the Orchestre du CROUS de Paris

1997

Bloc-notes de Midea (1+2) at Cité de la Musique

Bloc-notes de Midea (4) at l’IRCAM

Scholarship of Nadia Boulanger Foundation

1998

Bloc-notes de Midea (5) in Köln (Peter Eötvös, conductor)

1999

Artist in residence at Villa Médicis hors les murs (Italy)

Bloc-notes de Midea (6) at Radio France (Orch. Philharmonque)

Piano 4 at Teatro Colón (Bs. Aires) and at Musée d’Orsay

2000

Artist in residence at Herrenhaus-Edenkoben (Germany, jury Peter Eötvös)

Ephemera (musical theater) at Musée d’Orsay (French-state commission)

Midea (2) (opera) at Teatro Caio Melisso (Spoleto, Italy)

Orpheus Prize (jury: Luciano Berio) for Midea (2)

2001

Artist in residence at Akademie Schloß Solitude (Germany)

Midea (2) at Rome opera house

2002

Hochzeitsvorbereitungen (cantata) at Festival Eclat (Stuttgart)

Nuovo Inno Italiano at Venice Biennale

Midea (1) (French-state commission)

2003

Artist in residence at Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto, Japan)

Opérette (17 performances in France)

Exercices de Latinité at Théâtre du Châtelet

George Enesco Prize (annual) de la SACEM (French composers’ society)

2004

Geschichte (operetta a capella — text by Witold Gombrowicz) at Theaterhaus, Stuttgart, Opéra de Lille, Teatro Colón (Bs.Aires), Lublin Theatre (Poland) (commission of Stiftung Kultur des Bundes, Germany and the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, USA)

Six songs for the unquiet traveller (texte, Alberto Manguel), reopening concert at Wigmore Hall, Londres (commissioned by Wigmore Hall)

Underground (music for Anthony Asquith’s silent film, 1928) : Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Herrenhaus-Edenkoben, Auditorium du Louvre, Goethe-Institut Kyoto, Institut Français de Tokyo, Teatro Grand Rex (Bs Aires) (commission of Musée du Louvre)

Projects 2005

Concerto for piano and six percussion players (French-state commission for the Percussions de Strasbourg)

Tre Vecchie (opéra for Daniel Gloger and Garth Knox on a fairy tale by Italo Calvino)

“Le Cyclope” by Euripides (opéra). Stage direction : Jean-Claude Berutti.