Alvaro Carlevaro
composer and guitarist

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born 1957 in Montevideo, Uruguay

1979-86 studies in music [guitar, music theory and composition] at the College of Music in Montevideo, Uruguay with Abel Carlevaro, Eduardo Fernández and Héctor Tosar
1988-91 studies in composiiton with Helmut Lachenmann in Stuttgart, Germany

He won numerous international composition awards in Uruguay, Venezuela, Mexiko, Yugoslavia, Czecznia and Germany, e.g. ISCM World Music Days in Poland 1992 and Sweden 1994

He received scholarships from the DAAD, the Heinrich Strobel Stiftung and the Akademie Schloß Solitude.

His pieces are performed at international music festivals like "Darmstädter Ferienkurse", "Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik", "Ensemblia Mönchengladbach".