GUILLERMO SCARABINO - Conductor

Guillermo Scarabino was the Director of Artistic Production of the Teatro Colon Buenos Aires. Besides, he is a well-­‐respected conductor and Juror at several editions of the International Alberto Ginastera Composition Competitions.

Professor and teaching life

Maestro Scarabino taught at the Mendoza Summer Conducting Courses, the International Summer Academy of Concepción (Chile), and Venezuela's Inter-American Conducting Courses. He also lectured at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., Illinois State University, and the University of Pennsylvania (now known as Penn State University). He taught seminars at the universities of South Carolina and the Federal University of São Paulo. Furthermore, he taught at the Mendoza Summer Conducting Courses for students from several Latin American countries and also at the International Summer Academy of Concepción (Chile), as well as Venezuela's Inter-American Conducting Courses, held under the patronage of the Organization of American States. Mr. Scarabino was Professor of Conducting and Dean of Argentina's Catholic University School of Music.

Active member of Argentina's musical life

Upon returning to Argentina, he became an active member of the country's busy musical life. The reviews praised his debut at the Teatro Colón as “ a revelation of 1973 in the field of young Argentine conductor” (Anorama, Buenos Aires). As a staff conductor of the Teatro Colón's academic orchestra between 1995 and 2002, Mr. Scarabino led this group during its 2000 European Tour, including concerts at the Canterbury Festival and Hannover's 2000 festival. In Argentina, he served as Music Director of the symphony orchestras in Mar del Plata and Mendoza. While in Mendoza, he conducted numerous opera and ballet performances.

Debuts abroad

In 1973, he started his international conducting career with Uruguay's SODRE Symphony Orchestra. Since then, he has guest conducted in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Great Britain, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, Venezuela, and the U.S.A. Following his Washington D.C. debut at the 12th. Inter-­‐American Music Festival held at Kennedy Center, Paul Hume (The Washington Post) saluted him as"big gun,” remarking on the good orchestra performance and his revealing account of the Second Symphony by Lest Trimble. On at London's Barbican with the LSO, Roderic Dunnett (The Independent) stated, “the Argentinian conductor continually drew top-­‐class playing from these "youngsters”

Education

Maestro Scarabino graduated from the University of Rosario (Argentina), obtaining a Master of Arts Degree in Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY). There, he studied conducting under Laszlo Halasz and later attended courses given by Igor Markevitch and Hans Svarowsky. He received scholarships and awards from private and public institutions in Argentina, the United States, Spain, Brazil, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

Various

Maestro Scarabino was elected Chairman of the First Inter-­‐American Meeting of Orchestra Conductors (Caracas, 1988), Secretary of the 8th Inter-­‐American Music Education Conference (Washington, D.C., 1991), Juror for the II, III and V International Alberto Ginastera Composition Competitions held in Buenos Aires (1996), Madrid (1998) and Las Palmas (Canary Islands, 2002) and the Viñas LIV international Competition (Barcelona, 2017).