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Resumé
| Javier
Giménez Noble was born in Buenos Aires, and graduated
with honors from the Conservatorio Municipal, where he
studied with Roberto García Morillo. Very early in his
career, distinctions and awards were bestowed upon him:
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Asociación
Estímulo Cultural (1978),
Coro Nacional de Niños (1980), Colección Numerada ATC
(1981), Coca-Cola Artes y Ciencias (1982), Concurso Municipal
(1983), and Coro
Municipal de Gálvez, Santa Fe (1983), besides an
accesit by SADAIC in
1984. First performances included the Pater
Noster
(1982), Prólogo
y danza para siete instrumentos
(1983), Memento
and
Música
para pequeña orquesta
-premiered by the Sinfónica Nacional de Quito in
Ecuador-, in 1984.
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same year he received the ‘Domenico Zipoli’ award, confered
by the Fondo Nacional de las Artes and the italian embassy,
for advanced studies in Italy. In Milano he studied with
Giacomo Manzoni at the Conservatorio Verdi, and with |
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Franco Donatoni at the Accademia Chigiana di Siena
- where his piece Finilitudes
was
premiered in 1985 -,
thanks
to a grant from the Istituto Italo-Latinoamericano di
Roma. Ouroboros,
Triades
and Omenoni
received
four prizes in those years: Asociación Promúsica, Academia
Nacional de Bellas Artes, Third International Competition
from Radio SODRE (Uruguay) in 1987, and the first prize from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes in
1988.
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Since
1986 Giménez Noble was teaching at the Facultad de
Bellas Artes de la
Universidad de La Plata, at the Facultad de Música
de la Universidad Católica Argentina, the Conservatorio Gilardo
Gilardi de La Plata and the Escuela Municipal
de Concepción del Uruguay -Entre Ríos-.In 1988 he was
elected composer-in-residence for the Dirección Nacional de
Música, and he also received
a Fulbright Grant for a Master program in the U.S.A.,
at the New England Conservatory of Boston.
The
Deknatel Quartet -Bethel College, Newton, KS- comissioned
and premiered the piece In
the doldrums in 1989, and the same year the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos
Aires performed El
Monte Análogo,
which premiere had been trusted -in 1986- to the
Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional under the direction of
Polish conductor A.Straszynski.
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In May 1990 Giménez Noble received his Master in Music from
the N.E.C., becoming asociated with the Theory Department;
Ouroboros,
Sun,
el Viento,
Stasera
and Epitafios
were performed at the Jordan Hall, and Tritimes,
selected by the ALEA III International Competition, was premiered at the Boston University under the direction of
Theodore Antoniou. In 1991 was completed
Yzur,
for organ, and his author was awarded in the SCI/SESAC Composition
Contest.
 Back
in Argentina, several
projects were completed, including editions - EAC n.137,
154 and 169, and Honey Rock, Everett, PA [Tre
per Frette]
-, recordings - IRCO n.314 and 249, and New Day 024, Milano
- and several courses and seminars on composition and
analysis. Two commissions helped in giving birth to Quattro
per Jusid -for
piano and symphonic orchestra, 1997- and Sennin
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chamber opera for 4 singers, children choir and nine performers,
1998-. Since 2000 three new CD’s where issued -IRCO 292,
Sound Group 235 and S&S 04-, and two major orchestral
pieces premiered, Origami
in 2002 and Bitácora
varia in 2005 -both with
the O.S.N.-, and more than thirty chamber and vocal pieces.
Two other C.D.s under the IRCO label are in progress,
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Giménez
Noble was awarded in 1999 by the Tribuna Nacional de Compositores
for his ALBUM
1996
[thirty three pieces in six series for piano], and
in 2000 by the ASARCO for Kleine Origami.
He is a member of the American Music Center,
the Asociación Argentina de Compositores, the Sociedad Argentina
de Autores y Compositores,
and
CULTRUN, Compositores Asociados. He currently
teaches at the Conservatorio Superior de Música “Manuel
de Falla”, in Buenos Aires.
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