Mario Davidovsky

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Born: March 4, 1934; Buenos Aires, Argentina  
Mario Davidovsky is a renowned composer who is best known for his work in electronic music. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1971 for his Synchronism No. 6 for piano and tape. Davidovsky began his musical training at the early age of 7 while still residing in Argentina. He went on to study at the Collegium Musicium before entering the Bartolome Mitre School at the University of Buenos Aires. He began composing at age 13 and studied under Read more Guillermo Graetzer.

In 1958, Davidovsky traveled to the U.S. to study at the Berkshire Music Center with Aaron Copland, who was not a fan of electronic music, believing it to be limited by its reliance on electronic media. Milton Babbitt encouraged Davidovsky to permanently move to New York City in 1960. Since coming to the U.S., he has taught at the Manhattan School of Music, Yale University, City University, CUNY, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Michigan. He also was a visiting professor at the Di Tella Institute in Argentina, and in January 1994, he joined the music department at Harvard University.

In addition to his teaching and composing, Davidovsky served as director of the Koussevitsky Foundation at the Library of Congress, director of the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, and chairman of the Electronic Music Center at Columbia University. He founded and served as the vice president of the Robert Miller Fund for Music. Davidovsky has been the recipient of numerous awards and commissions. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Brandeis Creative University Creative Arts Award, a Koussevitsky Fellowship, the Williams Foundation Fellowship, and two Rockefeller Fellowships. He became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1982. In 1997, he received the honored Christopher and Stephan Kaske Foundation Music prize for his contributions in developing contemporary music.

His many commissions have come from such prestigious institutions as Harvard's Fromm Foundation, the Julliard String Quartet, the Pan American Union, the Koussevitsky Foundation, Yale University, the Emerson String Quartet, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. In addition, he has received commissions from Speculum Musicae, the Naumburg Foundation, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Davidovsky is perhaps best known for combining live instrumental performances with pre-recorded electronic sound. He composed a series of eight Synchronisms for various instruments. Mario Davidovsky is currently the Fanny P. Mason Professor of Music at Harvard University. Read less
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    Davidovsky: Scenes From Shir Ha Shirim, Romancero
    Label: Composers Recordings, Inc. (Cri)   Catalog: 530 Release Date: 06/01/2011   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Mario Davidovsky
    Performer:  Phyllis Bryn-Julson,  Frank Hoffmeister,  Charles Walker,  Raymond Murcell  ... 
    Conductor:  Anthony Korf,  Larry Livingston
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Parnassus,  Syzygy New Music Ensemble
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    Electronic Pioneers - Arel, Davidovsky, Gaburo, Ussachevsky
    Label: Composers Recordings, Inc. (Cri)   Catalog: 356 Release Date: 12/01/2010   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Bülent Arel,  Mario Davidovsky,  Kenneth Gaburo,  Vladimir Ussachevsky
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    Resonance / Daniel Lippel
    Resonance / Daniel Lippel
    Label: New Focus   Catalog: 101 Release Date: 10/12/2010   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Peter Gilbert,  Judah E. Adashi,  Soonjung Suh,  Elliott Carter  ... 
    Performer:  Daniel Lippel
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    Music Of Davidovsky, Street & Trythall
    Label: Composers Recordings, Inc. (Cri)   Catalog: 305 Release Date: 10/01/2010   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Mario Davidovsky,  Tison Street,  Richard Trythall
    Performer:  Jeanne Benjamin,  Joel Krosnick,  Robert Miller,  Richard Trythall
    Conductor:  David Gilbert
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Concord String Quartet
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    Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 10th Anniversary
    Label: Composers Recordings, Inc. (Cri)   Catalog: 268 Release Date: 09/01/2010   Number of Discs: 2
    Composer:  Edgard Varčse,  Otto Luening,  Milton Babbitt,  Vladimir Ussachevsky  ... 
    Performer:  Bethany Beardslee,  Donald Marcone,  Richard Fitz,  Raymond Des Roches  ... 
    Conductor:  Charles Wuorinen,  Harvey Sollberger
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Group for Contemporary Music
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    Abandoned Time / International Contemporary Ensemble
    Abandoned Time / International Contemporary Ensemble
    Label: New Focus   Catalog: 104 Release Date: 01/12/2010   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Du Yun,  Kaija Saariaho,  Mario Davidovsky,  Dai Fujikura  ... 
    Performer:  Daniel Lippel,  Tony Arnold
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  International Contemporary Ensemble
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    Davidovsky: Synchronisms; Sollberger: Chamber Variations
    Label: Composers Recordings, Inc. (Cri)   Catalog: 204 Release Date: 01/01/2010   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Mario Davidovsky,  Harvey Sollberger
    Performer:  Harvey Sollberger,  Sophie Sollberger,  Stanley Drucker,  Paul Zukofsky  ... 
    Conductor:  Efrain Guigui,  Gunther Schuller
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Group for Contemporary Music
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    The American Innovator - Alan Feinberg
    The American Innovator - Alan Feinberg
    Label: Decca   Catalog: 436925 Release Date: 10/31/2007   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Thelonious Monk,  Ralph Shapey,  Charles Tomlinson Griffes,  Charles Ives  ... 
    Performer:  Alan Feinberg
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    American Masters - Pioneers Of Electronic Music
    American Masters - Pioneers Of Electronic Music
    Label: New World Records   Catalog: 80644 Release Date: 04/25/2006   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Vladimir Ussachevsky,  Bülent Arel,  Pril Smiley,  Otto Luening  ... 
    Performer:  Raymond Des Roches,  Donald Marcone,  Richard Fitz,  Howard Van Hyning
    Conductor:  Harvey Sollberger
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    Music Of Mario Davidovsky Vol 3 / Speculum Musicae
    Music Of Mario Davidovsky Vol 3 / Speculum Musicae
    Label: Bridge   Catalog: 9171 Release Date: 09/27/2005   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Mario Davidovsky
    Performer:  Susan Nidel,  Curtis Macomber,  Eric Bartlett,  Maureen Gallagher  ... 
    Conductor:  Jeffrey Milarsky
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Speculum Musicae,  Manhattan School of Music Percussion Ensemble
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    A Tribute To Andrew Imbrie / Hampton, Et Al
    A Tribute To Andrew Imbrie / Hampton, Et Al
    Label: Albany Records   Catalog: 766 Release Date: 07/26/2005   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Andrew Imbrie,  Mario Davidovsky,  Robert Helps,  John Harbison  ... 
    Performer:  Marc Teicholz,  Bonnie Hampton,  Mack McCray,  Anne-Francis Dillon  ... 
    Conductor:  Nicole A. Paiement
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble
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    Electricity - Works For Cello And Electronics / Shapiro
    Electricity - Works For Cello And Electronics / Shapiro
    Label: Albany Records   Catalog: 726 Release Date: 02/22/2005   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Michael Gordon,  Jukka Tiensuu,  Mario Davidovsky,  Kaija Saariaho  ... 
    Performer:  Madeleine Shapiro
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    Solovision - Kreisler, Bartok, Et Al / Jennifer Frautschi
    Solovision - Kreisler, Bartok, Et Al / Jennifer Frautschi
    Label: Artek   Catalog: 16 Release Date: 05/25/2004   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Mario Davidovsky,  Béla Bartók,  Eugčne Ysa˙e,  Fritz Kreisler  ... 
    Performer:  Jennifer Frautschi
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    Harvard Composers / Sheldon, Mendelssohn String Quartet
    Harvard Composers / Sheldon, Mendelssohn String Quartet
    Label: Bis   Catalog: 1264 Release Date: 09/30/2003   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Mario Davidovsky,  Bernard Rands,  Earl Kim,  Leon Kirchner  ... 
    Performer:  Lucy Sheldon
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Mendelssohn String Quartet
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    Davidovsky: Shulamit's Dream, Etc / Korf, Rothman, Et Al
    Davidovsky: Shulamit's Dream, Etc / Korf, Rothman, Et Al
    Label: Bridge   Catalog: 9112 Release Date: 07/30/2002   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Mario Davidovsky
    Performer:  Susan Narucki,  Keith Underwood,  Alan R. Kay,  Cyrus Stevens  ... 
    Conductor:  Anthony Korf,  George Rothman
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Parnassus,  Riverside Symphony
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    Walton, Davidovsky, Et Al: Works For Guitar / Cem Duruoz
    Walton, Davidovsky, Et Al: Works For Guitar / Cem Duruoz
    Label: Centaur Records   Catalog: 2563 Release Date: 06/18/2002   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Sir William Walton,  David Hahn,  Bujor Hoinic,  Jody Rockmaker  ... 
    Performer:  Cem Duruoz
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    Cowell: The Universal Flute; Davidovsky, Et Al / Rudich
    Cowell: The Universal Flute; Davidovsky, Et Al / Rudich
    Label: Music & Arts Programs Of America   Catalog: 4012 Release Date: 04/24/2001   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Mario Davidovsky,  Donald Martino,  John Harbison,  Charles Wuorinen  ... 
    Performer:  Rachel Rudich,  Robert Rinehart,  Rolf Schulte,  Fred Sherry  ... 
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    Voces Americanas - Rodriguez, Et Al / Voices Of Change
    Voces Americanas - Rodriguez, Et Al / Voices Of Change
    Label: Composers Recordings, Inc. (Cri)   Catalog: 773 Release Date: 04/24/2001   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Tania León,  Mario Lavista,  Mario Davidovsky,  Roberto Sierra  ... 
    Performer:  Dwight Shambley,  Enric Madriguera,  Virginia Dupuy,  Rogene Howard  ... 
    Conductor:  James Rives-Jones
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Voices of Change
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    Davidovsky: Flashbacks / Starobin, Narucki, Et Al
    Davidovsky: Flashbacks / Starobin, Narucki, Et Al
    Label: Bridge   Catalog: 9097 Release Date: 06/27/2000   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Mario Davidovsky
    Performer:  David Starobin,  Chris Finckel,  Laura Gilbert,  Curtis Macomber  ... 
    Conductor:  Donald Palma,  Jeffrey Milarsky
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Speculum Musicae members,  Speculum Musicae String Quartet,  New York New Music Ensemble members
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    Secret Geometry - Music For Piano And Tape / Aleck Karis
    Secret Geometry - Music For Piano And Tape / Aleck Karis
    Label: Composers Recordings, Inc. (Cri)   Catalog: 707 Release Date: 02/20/1996   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Joji Yuasa,  Milton Babbitt,  James Primosch,  Arthur Kreiger  ... 
    Performer:  Aleck Karis
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    Songs Of Solitude - Carter, Et Al / Curtis Macomber
    Songs Of Solitude - Carter, Et Al / Curtis Macomber
    Label: Composers Recordings, Inc. (Cri)   Catalog: 706 Release Date: 02/20/1996   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Shulamit Ran,  Mario Davidovsky,  John Harbison,  Steven R. Gerber  ... 
    Performer:  Curtis Macomber
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    Cohen: Three For Emily, Etc; Blank, Feigin, Davidovsky
    Cohen: Three For Emily, Etc; Blank, Feigin, Davidovsky
    Label: Centaur Records   Catalog: 2248 Release Date: 12/12/1995   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Cohen,  Mario Davidovsky,  Joel Feigin,  Allan Blank
    Performer:  Charles West,  Bruce Hammel,  Michael J. Lisicky,  Christine Schadeberg
    Conductor:  Cohen
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Currents New Music Ensemble
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    New Music With Guitar Vol 5 / David Starobin
    New Music With Guitar Vol 5 / David Starobin
    Label: Bridge   Catalog: 9042 Release Date: 02/13/1995   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Mel Powell,  Tom Flaherty,  Roger Reynolds,  Mario Davidovsky  ... 
    Performer:  David Starobin,  Matthew Elgart,  Peter Yates,  Todd Seelye  ... 
    Conductor:  David Milnes
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Elgart - Yates Guitar Duo,  Anderson-Fader Guitar Duo,  Southern Methodist University Meadows Symphony
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    Boston Musica Viva Plays Schwanter, Ives, Berio, Et Al
    Boston Musica Viva Plays Schwanter, Ives, Berio, Et Al
    Label: Delos   Catalog: 1011 Release Date: 12/14/1992   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Donald Harris,  Mario Davidovsky,  Luciano Berio,  Charles Ives  ... 
    Performer:  Evelyn Zuckerman,  Nancy Cirillo,  Jay Humeston,  William Wrzesien  ... 
    Conductor:  Richard Pittman
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Boston Musica Viva
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    Aequalis - Works By Brody, Davidovsky, Gideon, Steifer, Ung
    Aequalis - Works By Brody, Davidovsky, Gideon, Steifer, Ung
    Label: New World Records   Catalog: 80412 Release Date: 12/08/1992   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Chinary Ung,  Miriam Gideon,  Mario Davidovsky,  Martin Brody  ... 
    Performer:  Elizabeth Mohr,  Fred Bronstein,  Michael Parola
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Aequalis
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