Activities

Teaching

Since 1990 he has worked profusely as an educator in the fields of composition, arranging, keyboards and directing ensemble workshops. In addition to giving private lessons, he is or has been part of the following institutions:

1997-present day

Escuela de Música Contemporánea (EMC): Chairman of the Harmony department. Teacher and designer of the academic programs for the subjects of music theory and composition.

2000-2001 y 2008-present day

New York University (NYU) in Buenos Aires: Teacher and designer of the course “The Music of Latin America”, relating to popular and folk music in that continent and intended for North-American liberal arts students.

1999

New York University (NYU), New York City, USA: Teaching assistanship and paper grading in the subject of Music Theory.

2000-2004

E:MU Educación Musical (La Plata): Teacher and course designer for the subjects of arranging, composition, harmony, keyboards and ensemble workshops.

1990-1995

Instituto Tecnológico de Música Contemporánea (ITMC): Professor of harmony, arranging and ensemble workshops.

1990-1992

Escuela Popular de Música del SADEM (Sindicato Argentino de Músicos): Professor of harmony, arranging and ensemble workshops.

Other activities

Professor at the Escuela Itinerante del Ministerio de Educación, a national government program for the instruction of music teachers throughout the entire country.

Courses, clinics and master classes at the Centro Cultural Rojas, Escuela de Música del Colegio Ward, Escuela de Música Popular de Viedma and La Colmena music school, in the city of Córdoba.

Participation as an instrumentalist and english-spanish interpreter at the clinics of international masters Scott Henderson (1991 and 1992), Gerald Veasley (1993) and Joe Zawinul (1993).

Resident lecturer of Tango History for the Fulbright-Hays exchange program, designed for North-American university professors visiting Argentina.

Through his teaching activity he has contributed to the formation of some outstanding musicians of the Argentinean music scene. Some of them are:

Andrés Beeuwsaert/Keyboards (Aca Seca, Pedro Aznar, Javier Malosetti, Fat’s Fernández)
Beto Caletti/Guitar, vocals (Solo artist)
Alejandro Dolina (Grupo Vocal Cabernet)
Luciano Dyzenchauz/Bass (Puente Celeste)
Damián Fogiel/Saxophone (Escalandrum)
Gonzalo Franzoni/Guitar, vocals (Solo artist, Calaverama)
Luciano Jungman/Bandoneon (La Camorra, Colortango)
Gustavo Kupinski/Guitar (Los Piojos)
Marcos Lozano (Grupo Vocal Cabernet)
Francisco LoVuolo/Piano (Solo artist, Mariano Otero Orquesta)
Pablo Marino/Guitar (Arranger, director)
Federico Marquestó/Guitar (Composer and director of El Emporio de la Impericia)
Andrés Ciro Martínez/Vocals (solo artist, Los Piojos)
Manuel Moreira (Grupo Vocal Cabernet)
Gustavo Musso/Saxophone (Escalandrum)
Mariano Otero/Bass (Composer, solo artist)
Alan Plachta/Guitar (Composer, solo artist)
Camilo Reiners (Composer, director)
Pablo Saclis/Keyboards (Arranger, director)
Mariano Sívori/Bass (Escalandrum)