Latin American Electroacoustic Music Collection

Carlos Cerana (Argentina)


Carlos Cerana was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1958. He studied clarinet with Néstor Tomassini and composition and electroacoustics with Francisco KrÖpfl. He taught at the National Conservatory and at the Municipal Conservatory of Buenos Aires. In 1988 he was appointed as a researcher at the Laboratorio de Investigación y Producción Musical (LIPM) in Buenos Aires. In 1992 he was invited to work at the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts of the University of California in San Diego (CRCA) and at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University (CCRMA), as part of an exchange programme supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1994 he participated in a concert tour visiting several universities in the United States and Canada. His piece Fall was awarded the prize for electroacoustic composition by the National Endowment for the Arts of Argentina.

(last update by RDF: March 2004)

Resources available for this composer:
- List of compositions (5 compositions)

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