HORACIO VAGGIONE

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Horacio Vaggione was born in Argentina in 1943. He studied piano and composition at the National University of Cordoba, Argentina, and then musicology and aesthetics at the University of Paris, where he received a doctorate. In 1965 he co-founded the Experimental Music Center of the University of Cordoba (Argentina). A member of the ALEA live electronics music group (1969-73), he also worked on the Computer Music Project at the University of Madrid (1970-1973), and later at IRCAM, the INA-GRM, the GMEB, and the Technical University of Berlin.

His music (electroacoustic and instrumental) is regularly played wordwide in major centers of contemporary music. Awards include the NEWCOMP Computer Music Prize (1985), Bourges prizes (1982, 1986, 1988), Trinac Prize (1985), DAAD Berlin Kunstlerprogram Award (1987), International Computer Music Association (ICMA) Commission Award (1992), and a Euphonie d’Or (Bourges 1992).

Since 1978 Vaggione has lived in Paris, where he is Professor of Music and director of the Doctorate Studies Program in Music and Technology at the University of Paris VIII.