Gabriel Garrido is an Argentinian conductor specialising in Italian baroque and the recovery of the baroque musical heritage of Latin America. Garrido was born 1950 in

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, and at the age of 17 with the Argentine recorder quartet, Pro Arte, undertaking two tours in Europe. He studied music at

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, in Zurich, and at the

Schola Cantorum Basiliensis The Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (SCB) is a music academy and research institution located in Basel, Switzerland, that focuses on early music and historically informed performance. Faculty at the school have organized performing ensembles that hav ...

, specialising in the lute, baroque guitar and reed instruments of the Renaissance. He became a member of the Ensemble Ricercare and

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's Hesperion XX, with whom he made several recordings. From 1977 he was a teacher at the ''Centre de Musique Ancienne'' at the

Conservatoire de Musique de Genève The Conservatoire de musique de Genève is a music school in Geneva, Switzerland. The Conservatory hosts 2,400 non-professional students. Since 2009, the professional courses have been led by the Geneva University of Music (''Haute école de ...

, where in 1981 he founded Ensemble Elyma a performance and research ensemble. He has a long working relationship with the ''Studio di Musica Antica Antonio Il Verso'' of

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. In 1992 Garrido commenced recording the key early recordings in the series ''Les Chemins du Baroque'' for the French label

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, which brought significant critic acclaim.

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(IMC) invited Garrido to organize workshops, conferences, and concerts in an international symposium dedicated to the Latin American baroque, at

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, Argentina, situated in the foothills of the Andes, for which UNESCO awarded him its "Mozart Medal". Garrido is also known for his work on Italian music, in particular his cycle of

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's operas, ballets and vespers and ''Vespro per lo Stellario della Beata Vergine'' of

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. From 1990, the

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has called on Garrido annually to make an opera creation. In 2000 the Fondazione Cini,

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, awarded him a special prize in recognition of his artistic activities on behalf of Italian music in the preceding ten years. Garrido has conducted operas at the

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and

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. He has brought baroque opera home to the

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in Buenos Aires with performances including Monteverdi's ''

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'' (June 2001) and

Rameau Jean-Philippe Rameau (; ; – ) was a French composer and music theorist. Regarded as one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century, he replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera a ...

's ''

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'', (October 2002).

Selected discography

With Ensemble Elyma: :See article: Ensemble Elyma With Studio di Musica Antica Antonio Il Verso di Palermo: *See discography
Discographia (Italian)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Garrido, Gabriel Argentine male conductors (music) Argentine performers of early music Living people 21st-century Argentine conductors (music) Year of birth missing (living people)