1. biografia

[amministratore_1]

Andrián Pertout
PO Box 4172,
Richmond East VIC 3121, Australia
tf (613) 94278042 / cell: (0409) 504 139
mail: apertout@pertout.com
www: www.pertout.com
luogo e data di nascita: Santiago (Cile), 1963

Andrián Fabian Pertout Navarro was born in Santiago, Chile, 17 October, 1963 [Versión en Castellano], and lived in Gorizia, Northern Italy for several years before finally settling in Melbourne, Australia in 1972. Over the years he has worked as a composer, performer, producer, arranger, writer and educator. In 2000, Andrián Pertout completed a BMus (Hons) degree, and in 2002, a Master of Music (MMus) degree with first class honours at the University of Melbourne, majoring in composition. In 2007, he completed a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at the University of Melbourne on Tweddle Trust, Australian Postgraduate and Melbourne Research scholarships, studying composition under the guidance of Brenton Broadstock. He is currently the Australian Delegate of the ACL (Asian Composers’ League), President of the Melbourne Composers’ League, as well as Honorary Fellow at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (University of Melbourne) and National Academy of Music (Thessaloniki, Greece).

Composition awards include the ‘John Cage Centennial’ Wolf Museum of Music and Art International Toy Piano Composition Competition Prize (USA), Friends & Enemies of New Music Composition Prize (USA), International Music Prize for Excellence in Composition (Greece), UnTwelve Composition Prize (USA), Dorian Le Gallienne Composition Prize, Betty Amsden Award, Louisville Orchestra Prize (USA), Oare String Orchestra Judges’ and Audience Prize (UK), Michelle Morrow Memorial Award, and the Zavod Jazz/Classical Fusion Award. He is currently the Australian Delegate of the ACL (Asian Composers’ League), Chairman of the Melbourne Composers’ League, as well as Honorary Fellow at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (University of Melbourne) and National Academy of Music (Thessaloniki, Greece).

He has received numerous commissions, including a Concertino-Doppio for alto saxophone, harp and string orchestra commissioned by the American Harp Society, Inc. New York, NY (USA), the ‘Compulsory Chilean Work to be Performed by all Competitors’ of the 2011 Concurso Internacional de Ejecución Musical ‘Dr. Luis Sigall’, and a work for robot orchestra incorporating thirty-seven automats for the Logos Foundation Robot Orchestra (Belgium), as well as other works commissioned by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta de Cámara de Valdivia (Chile), saxophonist Noah Getz (USA), toy pianist Phyllis Chen (USA), and Ensemble MD7 (Slovenia). Julian Burnside AO QC has additionally commissioned several works for performance by the University of Hong Kong Gamelan Orchestra and Australian pianist Michael Kieran Harvey, while the City of Melbourne commissioned Symétrie intégrante for flute, organ and electronics for performance by Andrew Blackburn and Jean Penny as part of the 2007 ‘Melbourne Town Hall Organ Project’. Film Music commissions include works that have been written to accompany over 20 documentary and short films, television programs, as well as commercials, computer games and stage productions. Highlights of this part of Andrián's career include composing for documentary films such as East Meets West (1984), Ibrahim (1984), The Murray River Quest (1985), Hope Street (1987) and The Australian Ballet (1990).

Andrián’s music has been performed in Luxembourg, Israel, Finland, Puerto Rico, Romania, Argentina, Turkey, Taiwan, Ireland, Portugal, Greece, Japan, Venezuela, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, Peru, China, Croatia, Hong Kong, France, USA, Belgium, Chile, Italy, Slovenia, Canada, Republic of Macedonia, UK, Netherlands, Austria, Korea, and Australia by orchestras that include Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra (Israel), Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico), Orquestra Petrobras Sinfônica (Brazil), Orquesta Sinfónica de Concepción (Chile), Orquesta de Cámara de Chile and Valdivia (Chile), Oare String Orchestra (UK), Logos Foundation Robot Orchestra (Belgium), Le Brass Band du Nord-Pas de Calais, La Chapelle Musicale de Tournai (Belgium), Louisville Orchestra, The Foundation Orchestra (USA), Victorian College of the Arts Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria, Victorian Youth Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, Melbourne University Orchestra (Australia); conductors that include Benjamin Shwartz (USA/Israel), Frédéric Chaslin (France), Maximiano Valdés (Puerto Rico), Rodolfo Fischer (Switzerland), Johannes Fritzsch (Germany), Peter Aviss (UK), Kenneth Young (New Zealand), Robert Franz, David C. Bugli (USA), Daniel Phillips, Nicholas Cowall, Warwick Stengards, Adrian Kirk (Australia), Robert Casteels (Singapore), Jürg Henneberger (Switzerland); as well as performers and ensembles that include the Onix Ensamble (Mexico), Ensemble MD7 (Slovenia), Ensamble Contemporáneo (Chile), Sonemus Ensemble (Bosnia-Herzegovina), University of South Carolina World Symphonic Jazz Orchestra, Omni Ensemble, New York Miniaturist Ensemble, Orenunn Trio, Syracuse Ensemble (USA), Quinteto CEAMC (Argentina), Crossroads Trio, Ensemble Octandre (Italy), Alea Contemporary Music Ensemble (Republic of Macedonia), Matej Zupan (Slovenia), BEyond Infinity Ensemble, Ensemble TIMF, Sori Ensemble (Korea), Sydney Soloists, OZmoSiS Ensemble, Sonic Art Ensemble, Rompduo, Tin Alley String Quartet, Trio Erytheia, Speak Percussion, Australian Contemporary Chorale (Australia), Ensemble für neue musik zürich (Switzerland), Cheung Hang-hung, Peter Fan (Hong Kong), Goska Isphording (The Netherlands), Marco Antonio Mazzini, Ward de Vleeschhouwer (Belgium), Susanne Stanzeleit, Carla Rees (UK), Isabel Ettenauer, Marika Ottitsch, Lourenço César Finatti (Austia), Geoffrey Morris, Ken Murray, Wendy Dixon, David Miller, Alister Barker, Michael Kieran Harvey, Anna Webb, Jean Penny, Andrew Blackburn, Anne Norman, Peter Hagen, Marshall McGuire, Ryszard and Aleksander Pusz, Josephine Vains, Rachel Atkinson, Luke Howard, Qmars Piraglu, Adrian Sherriff, Robert Chamberlain, Amy Valent, Alex Pertout, Johanna Selleck (Australia), Genevieve Feiwen Lee, Phyllis Chen, Noah Getz, Jeffrey Chappell, Jeri-Mae Astolfi, Larry Zimmerman, Craig Hultgren (USA).