Sergio Fabian Lavia (guitar- composition- electronic music)

Was born in Argentina and studied guitar at the Conservatorio Odeon of Buenos Aires, obtaining a diploma with first-class honours in 1982. He went on to study composition at the Faculty of Belle Arti of La Plata University, where his work "Obra para cuarteto de cuerdas" was awarded first prize in a composition competition organised by the university.

He studied composition with Sebastián Piana, Mariano Etkin, Gerardo Gandini,Oscar Edelstein and he studied guitar with Eduardo Issac, Miguel Girolet, Eduardo Eguez.

In Italy, he studied guitar with Aldo Minella and he obtained a diploma at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi of Milan. He obtained another diploma, in composition and electronic music, from the Civica Scuola di Milano where he was taught by Alvise Vidolin, Alessandro Solbiati, Giovanni Cospito and Adriano Guarnieri.

He has participated in numerous master classes and advanced performance courses eg with Franco Donatoni, Luis de Pablo, Maria Ester Cora, David Russel, Leda Valladares, Toninho Horta, Carlos Lederman, Nuccio D'Angelo etc.

He has performed as a soloist in concerts and television broadcasts in South America and in Europe, appearing with chamber groups and also with full orchestras. He has collaborated with the IT faculty of Milan University and he has been collaborating with the Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi of Milano since 1996, playing classical, bass and electric guitar.

He has played with some of the most prestigious musicians of the international stage eg Riccardo Chailly, Luis Bacalov, Nicola Piovani, Vinko Globokar, Sandro Gorli, Oleg Caetani, Eric Hull, Pete Huttlinger, Toninho Horta, Wladimir Yurowski, Milan Turkovic, Yutaka Sado, ecc.

He is a member of several groups performing Argentinian and Brasilian popular music: Aires del Sur (as guitarist and arranger), Dilene Ferraz Group, Trio Amarilis, World Tango Project, Maria Isabel Garcia & quintetto (as guitarist, arranger and musical director), Quintetto caminito, Sergio Lavia Y su grupo (performing and interpreting his own music)

Having previously participated in various recording projects (Decca, Stradivarius, Saar, ecc) , in 1999 he released his first disc "Historias del sur (del mundo)". This work, sponsored by the Argentine Consulate of Zurigo, contains some of his own music and also music by other Argentinian composers.

Now he recorded “Argentina”, consisting entirely of his own compositions, produced by Primrose Music International LTD.

In his live concerts, Sergio Fabian Lavia performs his own music (he has written more than 100 compositions) and also music written by other Latin American composers.

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