pedro guajardo
composer & video artist
ABOUT ME
Pedro Guajardo was born in Madrid in 1960, studied at the Conservatory of Madrid and in international courses in Granada, Compostela, Darmstadt, Siena, Hungary, Paris (IRCAM) etc. In 1987 he received a Fulbright to study in the U.S.A. and completed two Masters, one in Composition, at California Institute of the Arts and the other in Orchestra Conducting at the University of Missouri Columbia. He received a mention at the P.A.S. (Percussion Arts Society) Competition (U.S.A.) He was awarded 3rd International Prize in Composition for Computer Music "Pierre Schaeffer" (Italy), 1998. 1st prize Composition Competition for Glass Harmonica "Thomas Bloch" 2000 (France). 1st prize at the 4th International "Edward Grieg Memorial" Composition Competition for String Quartet (Norway), 2000, and the special mention at the 2001 International Electroacoustic Competition SGAE 2001 (Spain). He was selected in the Multimedia Palmares at the 30th Bourges Competition in 2003 (France) and at the International Film Festival in Granada (Spain) 2001. He has received many commissions and his compositions have been programmed in international festivals such us Granada, Alicante, Synthese, CalArts, Boston Visual Music marathon, Música Visual de Lanzarote, etc. He was the director of ASTARTÉ - Festival Internacional de Música in Cádiz (Spain). He is professor of Audiovisual Composition at the Conservatory of Music in Granada and has received an artist residency at the Bellagio Center granted by the Rockefeller Foundation. He founded with Rebecca Choate, EKLEKTIKA, a multimedia tandem that has performed and toured in Spain, Mexico and the U.S.A.
MY WORK
MUSIC COMPOSITIONS VIDEO ART PERFORMANCE ART eklektikart.weebly.com vimeo.com/eklektikart www.eklektikart.com [email protected] |
eklektika
EKLEKTIKA is our multimedia tandem with Rebecca Choate exploring performance and video art & more
www.eklektikart.com
www.eklektikart.com