Composer · b. 1951
Alejandro Guarello
Biography
Alejandro Guarello was born in Viña del Mar, Chile, on 21 August 1951. His creative output includes more than seventy-four chamber and symphonic works, many performed in Chile, Europe, Japan and the United States. Several have received awards in composition competitions. Three monographic CDs—Alejandro Guarello (1998), Retrospectiva (2000) and Nueva Música para Cuerdas (2014)—are available alongside other recordings of his music.
Guarello has also been active as a conductor of contemporary music. He founded, organised and directed composition studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and was a founder and artistic director of its Contemporary Music Festival, Chile’s longest-running festival of its kind.