Civilotti, Alejandro

Alejandro Civilotti was born in La Plata (the Argentine) in 1959. From an early age, he developed an interest in music in an intuitive way playing the guitar and performing Latin American traditional music on TV, radio, theatres, and taking part in recordings.
In later years, 1978-1983, he studied harmony, counterpoint, fugue, morphology and composition under Enrique Gerardi; he studied clarinet first and then viola at the Provincial Conservatoire in La Plata in this stage.
In 1984 he moved to Barcelona and worked composition and instrumentation with Josep Soler and was also tutored on these subjects by Joan Guinjoan reaching full maturity as a composer.
At present he is a member of the Catalan Composer Association and is a professor of harmony, counterpoint and composition at the Professional-Higher Conservatoire of Music in Badalona. He also works for different soloists in Spain and abroad.

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