Juan María Solare composes for clarinet alone

The clarinet class in 3rd ISMA in collaboration with composer Juan María Solare, will study within the course of the summer academy, composer's works written for clarinet alone (solo clarinet, duetti, trio, quartetti).

All pieces – selected for us by J.M. Solare – were composed from 2007 to 2014, and will be presented in a concert dedicated to the composer and his work. They will be played for  first time in Greece and some of them as a world premiere.

The purpose of this workshop is to explore, together with the students, all the intermediate phases, from the search of repertoire, to the presentation of a concert on stage. The documentation also with sound and video.

We thank Juan María Solare for his constant support, generosity, most of all for the ethos that distinguishes his attitude, work - his work - and his music.

Composer and pianist Juan María Solare was born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1966 and has lived in Germany since 1993. He studied with María Teresa Criscuolo, Fermina Casanova, Juan Carlos Zorzi and Francisco Kröpfl, Johannes Fritsch, Helmut Lachemann and Hans-Ulrich Humpert. Solare was the last pupil of Mauricio Kagel. He obtained scholarships from the DAAD, the foundation Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung (Baden-Baden) and the Künstlerhäuser Worpswede.

Currently, Solare teaches piano at the Musikschule Bremen, tango music at the Universität Bremen and Composition and Arrangements at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen.

Most of his over 300 compositions are performed throughout Europe and broadcasted regularly. Eight CDs by diverse performers include at least one piece by Solare. As pianist, centre of his repertory are the classical music of our time (Cage, Schönberg, Pärt) and Argentine tango music - featuring his own works in both categories. Besides compositive and pianistic activities, he writes for music magazines (Madrid, Mexico, Buenos Aires, Köln, London) and for the radio (Deutsche Welle, Südwestfunk).