Alejandro Civilotti

Alejandro Gabriel Civilotti Carvalho (born June 22, 1959, La Plata, Argentina). Argentine composer settled in Barcelona, Spain, considered one of the biggest names of his generation in the contemporary Spanish music scene-. Civilotti studied harmony, counterpoint and composition in La Plata with Enrique Gerardi, who studied with Alberto Ginastera and was in Paris a Pierre Schaeffer and Nadia Boulanger's pupil. Civilotti studied composition and orchestration in Barcelona with Josep Soler i Sardà also. In 1995 he won the Queen Sofía Composition Prize for his work Cinco Grabados para Orquesta. In 2005 he began working as a professor in the Graduate Chamber Music Composition of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Currently is teacher of Harmony and Composition in the Badalona Conservatory of Music and member of the Catalan Association of Composers. The personal papers of Alejandro Civilotti are preserved in the Biblioteca de Catalunya.