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Sergio Fabian Lavia(guitar- composition- electronic music)
BIOGRAPHY
Was born in Argentina and studied guitar at the Conservatorio Odeon of Buenos Aires, obtaining a diploma with
first-class honours in 1982. He went on to study composition at the Faculty of Belle Arti of La Plata University,
where his work "Obra para cuarteto de cuerdas" was awarded first prize in a composition competition organised by
the university.
He studied composition with Sebastián Piana, Mariano Etkin, Gerardo Gandini,Oscar Edelstein and he studied guitar
with Eduardo Issac, Miguel Girolet, Eduardo Eguez.
In Italy, he studied guitar with Aldo Minella and he obtained a diploma at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi of
Milan. He obtained another diploma, in composition and electronic music, from the Civica Scuola di Milano where
he was taught by Alvise Vidolin, Alessandro Solbiati, Giovanni Cospito and Adriano Guarnieri.
He has participated in numerous master classes and advanced performance courses eg with Franco Donatoni, Luis de
Pablo, Maria Ester Cora, David Russel, Leda Valladares, Toninho Horta, Carlos Lederman, Nuccio D'Angelo etc.
He has performed as a soloist in concerts and television broadcasts in South America and in Europe, appearing with
chamber groups and also with full orchestras. He has collaborated with the IT faculty of Milan University and he has
been collaborating with the Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi of Milano since 1996, playing classical, bass and
electric guitar.
He has played with some of the most prestigious musicians of the international stage eg Riccardo Chailly, Luis
Bacalov, Vinko Globokar, Sandro Gorli, Oleg Caetani, Eric Hull, Pete Huttlinger, Wladimir Yurowski, Milan
Turkovic, Yutaka Sado, ecc.
He is a member of several groups performing Argentinian and Brasilian popular music: Aires del Sur (as guitarist
and arranger), Dilene Ferraz Group, Trio Amarilis, World Tango Project, Maria Isabel Garcia & quintetto (as
guitarist, arranger and musical director), Quintetto caminito, Sergio Lavia Y su grupo (performing and interpreting
his own music)
Having previously participated in various recording projects (Decca, Stradivarius, Saar, ecc) , in 1999 he released his
first disc "Historias del sur (del mundo)". This work, sponsored by the Argentine Consulate of Zurigo, contains some
of his own music and also music by other Argentinian composers.
Now he recorded “Argentina”, consisting entirely of his own compositions, produced by Primrose Music
International LTD.
In his live concerts, Sergio Fabian Lavia performs his own music (he has written more than 100 compositions) and
also music written by other Latin American composers.
ACADEMIC STUDIES.
1973-82
1982-85
1985-90
1992-94
1994
1994-98
2000-4
Musical Conservatory" ODEON". degree: Guitar Professor.
Conservatory "MANUEL DE FALLA". Instrument studies Specialization: Guitar.
Nacional University of "La Plata"- Faculty of Arts. Studies in Music and Composition.
Civic School of Music of Milan. Guitar Studies. degree in guitar
Conservatory GIUSEPPE VERDI of Milan. Degree in guitar
Civic School of Music (Contemporany Music Department). Course of Composition, electronic and
computer music.
Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi di Milano. Course of Composition, electronic and computer music.
Degree in: Composition and electronic music.
PRIVATE STUDIES.
1982-85 Harmony and Counterpoint in clasic and popular music. Professor: Sebastian Piana.
1983-84 Singing tecnics. Professor: Sara Rusinol.
1983-84 Violin. Professor: Antonio Agri.
1983-85 Guitar. Professor: Daniel Kuper.
1985-88 Guitar. Professor: Eduardo Egüez.
1989
Guitar. Professor: Miguel Angel Girolet.
1989-90 Guitar. Professor: Eduardo Issac.
1988
Composition. Professor: Gerardo Gandini.
1985-89 Composition. Professor: Mariano Etkin.
1989-90 Composition. Professor: Oscar Edelstein.
1988-90 Specialization in interpretation of renaissance and baroque music. Professor: Maria Ester Cora.
2001-02 Singing tecnics. Professor: Shuko Takahashi
2002-05 Singing tecnics. Professor: Mariella Farina
2006-08 Program Max (electronic music). Professor: Matteo Pennese
SPECIALIZE STUDIES.
1986
1986
1987
Acoustic of Theatre . Professor: Gustavo Basso.
Singing Technics from the Andes. Professor: Leda Valladares.
Laboratory of Contemporany Music (Winner of an schoolarship). Director: Gerardo Gandini. Professor:
Mariano Etkin, Marta Lambertini, Carmelo Saitta, Jorge Pitari, Jaime Barcelo, Federico Monjeau.
1988
Guitar Master Classes. Professor: Eduardo Eguez.
1988
Course of flamenco guitar. Professor: Carlos Lederman.
1989
Studies for the application of analogic and digital media in musical composition. (Winner of an
schoolarship) Center of Musical Research. University of Buenos Aires.
1994
"Music and Nature". Musical Master Classes in Val Bregaglia, Switzerland
1994
International Master Classes of Guitar. Professor David Russell
1997
Second Course of Contemporany Music. Laboraty of Composition and Analysis of Contemporany Scores.
Professor: Alessandro Solbiati
1999
Guitar Master Classes "Improvisation rules". Professor: Nuccio D'Angelo
1999-00 Course of Composition. Professor: Nuccio D'Angelo
2000
Brazilian guitar. Professor: Toninho Horta
PARTICIPATION AT CONGRESS AND FESTIVALS.
1987
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1989
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"Segundo encuentro de los Estudiantes de Musica de la Argentina". Provincia de San Juan.
"Segundo Simposio Internacional Guitarrìstico en Argentina". Bs. As.
“Taller de Musica Contemporanea” Fundaciòn San Telmo. Bs. As.
"Cuarto encuentro de los Estudiantes de Musica de la Argentina" Rosario, Santa Fe.
“La Chitarra in Cirie” Centro Educazione Permanente di Milano
“Rassegna Chitarristica Auditorium di Villa Simoneta” Milano
“Milano per Petrassi”
"III Festival Della Musica Internazionale "(Lecco)
"Festival Latino Americano" (Forum Di Asago)
"Festival Latino Americano" (Viareggio)
“Americhe musica a confronto” Scuola Civica di Milano
“Incontri di musica Contemporanea” Conservatorio di Bologna
"Festival Latino Americano" (Torino)
"Listen up the music" (Poschiavo)
“Bormio Guitar” (Bormio)
“Grandi Chitarristi del nostro tempo” Città di Tricase
“Festival del Cinema di Locarno” Svizzera
“Ferrara in Jazz”
“Tremezzo Jazz Festival”
“Dadi Guitar Festival” Milano
“Fiji International Jazz and Blues Festival” Isole Fiji
“Montana International Jazz n’ Blues Fest” Auckland & Waiheke Is. Nuova Zelanda
“Festival del Ticino”
“Marostica in Jazz”
“Ferrara in Jazz”
“Juillet Musical” Nice. Francia
“2° Festival dei Girovaghi”
“Tremezzo Jazz Festival”
“Grandi Chitarristi del nostro tempo” Città di Tricase
“Astoria in Jazz” Como
“ Dadi Guitar Festival Associazione A.D.G.P.A e Gheroartè ” Milano
“Itinerari Sonori Jazz a Bellante” Teramo
“Festival internazionale della chitarra di Sarzana”- La Spezia
“Festival Sound’america” Andria
“4 edizione di Controtempi” Parma
“Musikalische Highlights” Kultur und Kongresszentrum Luzern (Suiza)
“Valbadia jazz”.
“Tremezzo Jazz Festival”
“Jazz en el Teatro Nacional Sucre” (Quito- Ecuador)
“Ferrara in Jazz”
“Musiche dal Mondo” (Vimercate)
“Musica dello Spirito” progetto Orchestra Verdi di Milano
“Live waterfront” Kultur und Kongresszentrum Luzern (Suiza).
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“Semana della cultura italiana” Teatro nacional de Quito (Ecuador)
“Badia di Ganna”
“Traiettorie musicali del nostro tempo” Villa Caproni
“I Festival Internazionale di Chitarra- Menaggio”
“Chitarre del mondo” Teatro Sociale di Bellinzona (Suiza)
“Palermo Jazz school meeting & festival”
“Premier Heart Tango” Teatro degli Arcimboldi di Milano
“A.D.G.P.A Guitar International Rendez-vous” Conegliano Veneto
“ Salento Negroamaro” rassegna delle culture migranti VIII edizione- Puglia
“ Praia World Festival ” Calabria
“II Festival Internazionale di Chitarra- Menaggio”
CONTESTS AND DEGREES
1984
1986
1987
1989
1989
1994
1994
1996
Chosen to realize the'"Homage to Heitor Villa-Lobos", by the BRASIL EMBASSY
Chosen to represent the FACULTY of ARTS at the University of " La Pampa".
Chosen to be part of the Group of musicians of the Laboratory of Contemporany Music, Directed by
Gerardo Gandini.
Chosen to conduct studies of electronic Music at the "Center of Musical Research of the University of
Buenos Aires".
Winner of the "Contest of Artistic Production" of the National University of "La Plata".
Winner of the Contest "Music and Nature" in Van Bregaglia, Switzerland.
Chosen to make "Milan for Petrassi" for the Civic School of Music.
Chosen as the guitar player of the "Giuseppe Verdi Symphonic Orchestra of Milan”
PARTICIPATION IN ASSOCIATIONS.
"Asociation Argentinean of Composers"
Group "Otras Mùsicas"
"New Generation of Argentinean Composers"
Asociation "Musica Viva"
Asociation "Claudio Monteverdi di Morbegno"
DISCOGRAPHY
1998
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2008
WORLD TANGO PROJECT. (Saar srl. A world of music.)
HISTORIAS DEL SUR (del mundo). (Telma S.r.L. pepe record's). Patrocinato dal Consolato Argentino di
Zurigo.
BRUNO MADERNA. Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. (Stradivarius)
TANGO Hits. (Telma S.r.L.) ( gruppo Aires del Sur)
TANGANDO Omaggio a Astor Piazzolla. (Azzurra music. Kif Music Sas)
MUSICA DE LOS ANDES .Sarabanda. Saludos Amigos
BRUNO MADERNA. (II disco) Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. (Stradivarius)
ARGENTINA. (Flipper S.r.l. Primrose Music International LTD)
MEMORIAS. (Flipper S.r.l. Primrose Music International LTD)
GREAT TENOR ARIAS. Juan Diego Flòrez. Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. (Decca)
COMPILATION ILLY-LIFEGATE. Sergio Fabian Lavia & Dilene Ferraz
DE ARGENTINA AO BRASIL. Sergio Fabian Lavia & Dilene Ferraz (MusicCenter)
AILEN. Sergio Fabian Lavia- Solo. (Kle)
FLUTUAR. Denis Raz- (WorldMusic)
THEORETICAL WORKS
"Musical Sistems". Published by the CONSERVATORY "MANUEL DE FALLA" in Buenos Aires, Agentina.
"Musical Opinions". Work as an editor for the program "El tren imaginario" in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
"Limits" (Not publicated)
"Alle radici del suono. La musica in America Latina" publicated by the magazzine "Viceversa" of Sondrio, Italy.
"Analiysis of a Bach fugue"
"Obra para cuarteto de cuerdas" poetic
"Suite popular argentina" Thinkings
"Conferencia ilustrativa" text
"Americas, musica a confronto- Argentina, tango"
"Saudalgia" poetic
"Historias del sur (del mundo)"
“Analysis of Toupie Dans Le Ciel Erosphère- François Bayle”
“Analysis of Poème èlectronique- Edgar Varèse”
“Analysis of Turenas- John Chowning”
“Analysis of Nada- Sergio F. Lavia”
TEACHING ACTIVITIES.
Professor of guitar and Armony I and II at the "Centro de Capacitaciòn Musical Centerlom" of Buenos Aires.
Professor of musical culture at the "Colegio Normal N° 5" of Buenos Aires.
Professor of guitar at the "Associazione Musicale Alto Lario"(Co), Italy.
Professor of guitar at the "Civica Scuola di Musica della Provincia di Sondrio" Italy.
Professor of classic guitar at the "Civica Scuola di Musica di Morbegno", Italy.
Professor of classic guitar at the "Civico Istituto Musicale F.P. Ricci" (Co)
Professor of classic guitar at the "Conservatorio di Lugano" (Suiza)