Roberto García Morillo


Roberto García Morillo was an Argentine composer, musicologist, music professor and music critic.

Biography

García Morillo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he studied at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música "Carlos López Buchardo", and in Paris studied piano with Yves Nat. Morillo died on October 26, 2003.
He worked as a music critic for the newspaper La Nación starting in 1938, and subsequently published in many Argentine and North American periodicals. He was appointed to joint positions as professor of composition in both the national and the municipal conservatories in Buenos Aires in 1942.
Curriculum:
  • Director of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música "Carlos López Buchardo"
  • Professor of Composition at the Conservatorio Municipal de Música and at the Antiguo Conservatorio "Beethoven"
  • Music critic of the newspaper La Nación
  • Member of the Comisión de Música Sinfónica y de Cámara de SADAIC
  • Vicepresident of the Asociación Argentina de Compositores
  • President of the Unión Compositores de la Argentina
  • Member of the Senato Académico del Centro Internazionale di Studi Musicali, Sociedad Internacional de Musicología and Internationale Gesellschaft für Urheberrecht of Munich
  • Jury member of several national and international competitions.
Morillo's pupils included Regina Benavente

Works

His compositional style was never nationalistic, though most of his works from 1939 onward display the influence of Spanish culture. He received awards from the Comisión Nacional de Cultura, Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Asociación Wagneriana, SADAIC, Rotary Club, and the Dante Alighieri Scholarship.
His works have been commissioned by:
  • Radio Nacional Argentina
  • Asociación de Conciertos de Cámara
  • Asociación Amigos de la Música
  • Festival de Música de Tucumán
  • Asociación "El Piano"
  • Asociación Argentina de Compositores
  • Fabien Scvitzky
  • Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires
  • Teatro Colón
  • Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales
  • Asociación Amigos del Coro Nacional de Niños
  • IV Festival Interamericano de Música.