Héctor Cavallaro (Caracas, Venezuela). Lives and works in Paris.
Currently works as a PhD researcher/composer in Musicology for the École Doctorale Esthétique, Sciences et Technologies des Arts (Lab. MUSIDANSE) at the Université Paris 8. His academic work deals with aesthetics and philosophy of music subjects, focusing mainly in non-teleological, i.e., non-linear music of the XX century.
As a composer, his music has been premiered in contemporary music festivals in Venezuela, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Spain, France and the UK.
Having attended Emil Friedman’s music school in Caracas, Venezuela, he later studied Musical Composition at the Ars Nova School of Music as well as Orchestral Conducting at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. He holds a degree of Musicology (Master 1 & 2) from the Université Paris 8 Saint-Denis. He has attended internationally recognized Contemporary Composition and Conducting workshops in Argentina, Spain and France. In parallel of his music formation, he studied photography at RMTF in Caracas, participating in several exhibitions and publications.
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News:
- Publication of the collective text book “Silence = Vioence?”, article « De la “membrane” à l'“océan”: le silence chez Cage et autour ». June 2022.
- Publication of the collective text book “Suono bene comune: riflessioni, esperienze e progetti dalla pandemia”, article “Il rumore dell'albero che cade: alcune riflessioni su un paradosso sonoro nell’era della pandemia”. June 2022.
- Publication of the article "Yeah Yeah Yeahs: a philosophical praxis of nostalgia" (It/Eng) in Musica Stampata. March 2022.
- Publication of the Issue 18 : 2 | 2021 of "Volume!" the French journal of popular music studies. Aritlcle « D'Érik Satie aux Smashing Pumpkins: à propos d'un riff de garçon fragile » (Cavallaro, Spanu).
- « Étude sur l'ombre chez Caravaggio » (2018) for piano solo premiered online at the XXI Festival Latinoamericano de Música, Dec. 9th 2021.
- Participation in the Journées d'études « Les possibles de l'écriture: forces, formes, sens », Université Paris 8, 4 - 5 Nov. 2021.
- Participation in the International conference L'évènement 11 septembre, The 9/11 'Event', Sorbonne, 30 Sept. - 1 Oct. 2021.
- Participation in the conference La recherche en création et ses différentes temporalités, Colloque européen RESCAM. Université Grenoble Alpes, 16-17 September 2021.
- Participation in the Journée d'étude Silence = Violence?, online, Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne & Lettres Sorbonne Université, January 2021.
- Publication of the collective photobook Aislamiento: seis ensayos fotográficos / Isolation: six photo essays, Rabipelao Ediciones, Madrid, December 2020.
- Participation in the Sounds of the Pandemic international online conference, December 16-17 2020.
- Les formes du vide (2017), Étude sur l'ombre chez Caravaggio (2018) and Un cristal de ordeño (2019) digitally published by the UCLA library in collaboration with Kaleidoscope, July 2020.
- Participation in the II Jornadas de Investigación en Producción Musical, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (online), Juin, 2020.
- Publication of the collective text book Manières d'être du musical (L'Harmattan). Article "Un dispositif « liquide » : manières de diluer la téléologie chez Debussy" (Héctor Cavallaro), April 2020.
- Participation in the Journée d'étude Mythes, légendes et imaginaires des savoirs et des discours musicaux, Maison de la Recherche, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, Mars 2020.
- Un cristal de ordeño (2019) for sextet, written for the Ensemble Libertas, premiered at the Circuito de Música Contemporânea of the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (Belo Horizonte), September 2019.
- Participation in the IIe Congrès Doctoral International de Musique et Musicologie 2019, Maison de la Recherche, Université Sorbonne Paris, May 2019.
- Participation in the 7e Journée des Jeunes Chercheurs du GREAM « La musique dans les autres arts : poïétique, fonction, signification », Université de Strasbourg, February 2019.
- Music for the film « Ubuntu » (2018). Premiered at the Cinemathèque Française, October 2018.
- Retrato de Carlos Duarte (2013) for piano solo published and edited by #OssiaProject (USA) June 2018.
- Las formas del vacío (2017) for quintet premiered at the XX Festival Latinoamericano de Música (Centro de Acción Social por la Música), Caracas, Venezuela, May 2018.