Osvaldo Golijov was born on December 5, 1960 in La Plata, Argentina. He is a composer, known for The Man Who Cried (2000), Youth Without Youth (2007) and Tetro (2009).
MacArthur Fellowship, Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
Movies
Twixt, The Oath, Tetro, Youth Without Youth, Eleven Minutes, Nine Seconds, One Image: September 11, The Man Who Cried
Star Sign
Sagittarius
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Fact
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Golijov is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. [2008]
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Golijov says he was glad to be assigned the St. Mark Passion. St. John was out of the question because of its treatment of Jews, and St. Matthew raised the specter of Bach a little too concretely for Golijov's comfort.
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Garnered a major commission from Soli Deo Gloria, the Wheaton, Illinois, based foundation dedicated to spreading "the message of God's greatness and goodness through the most powerful music of our time."
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Born in Argentina, Golijov grew up in an Eastern European Jewish household.
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In 2000, commissioned by German Helmuth Rilling for $10,000 to write a Passion based on St. Mark to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach in 2000.
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Studied with Mark Kopytman at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy.
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Ph.d in Music Composition from University of Pennsylvania where he studied with George Crumb.
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Associate Professor at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, where he has taught since 1991, and is also on the faculty of the Boston Conservatory.
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2003 MacArthur Fellow with a $500,000 "no strings attached" funds over the next five years.
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