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Jaime Zenamon

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Jaime Zenamon is famos performer, conductor and composer.

He studied classical guitar with A. Carlevaro (Uruguay), A. Bocchino (Brazil) and Almosnino (Hungary). He studied composition with G. Santorsola, N. Flagello, and W. Nokolovsky, as well as conducting with C. Prates and G. Santorsola. Zenamon attended classes of Maestro Herbert von Karajan at the Karajan Stifttung Academy as a listener.

 

Jaime Zenamon is the founder of the Chair of Guitar at the School of Music and Fine Arts of Paraná. He settled in Berlin, Germany, at the invitation of the Hochschule der Künste, where he held the position of professor from 1980 to 1992. In the 1980s, he participated in the Neue Musik Group in Berlin. His most expressive works from this period were the songs that make up the ballet written for the Ballet Danse Grotesque. In May 1996, at the request of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, he composed the song ORAKEL, for violin and symphony orchestra, which, in its debut, won him the prize for best composition of the year for orchestras at the Paul Woitschaft Institute (Berlin, Germany).

His orchestral work is performed by eminent orchestras, from which, stand out, among others, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Paraná Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Berlin Opera Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Wilhelmshafen String Orchestra, Orchestra Curitiba Chamber… His works are edited by AMA Verlag / Verlag Neue Musik / Edition Margaux, Chanterelle Verlag and Edition Ex-Tempore. His CDs were produced and distributed by Polygram, Deutsche Grammophon, 99 Records and Kreuzberg Records. His work comprises over 190 opus, presented-and recorded-on over 300 CDs by various orchestras, interpreters, chamber ensembles, and the composer himself.

He has performed as a concert performer in over 2600 concerts.

 
 

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