Pablo Aguirre
Pablo Aguirre is a composer and pianist. He was born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1961. During the last fifteen years, he played more than 400 concerts, including the Colón Opera House and the General San Martín and Nacional Cervantes theatres. In 2002 he founded with the flutist Luis Rocco the duo Aguirre-Rocco.
His academic background includes careers at the "Conservatorio de Buenos Aires" and at the CAECE University, including further specialization in piano by Guillermo Graetzer and Roberto Caamaño and in composition and orchestral arrangement with the Maestros Manolo Juárez and Lito Valle.
As founder, composer, arranger and pianist of the trio "La Posta" he recorded six CDs containing several pieces written by him. He also appeared as either pianist, arranger or composer in the discography of other artists, such as Angel Frete, Natalia González, Lars Nilsson, María Estela Monti and the duo Nuñez-Muslera among others. "La Posta" trio toured Europe in 1994, presenting their own material and during that time Pablo Aguirre was offering seminars on latin music as well.
As composer he was already honored with notable awards, such as the "Estímulo a la Creación" (Stimulation to Creativity) Prize of the Argentine National Arts Fund in the years 2008, 2004 and 1997 and the Belgrano University Prize in the "Folk & Fusion" category in 1987. In 1993 he received the Trimar Award from the UNESCO Argentine Music Council and, in 1994 the Trimalca Award from the UNESCO International Music Council, in both cases as a member of the "La Posta" trio.
His works display a personal and renewing style of composition, which is based on classical structures that are united with the character of tango and folklore - overridden and merged into the structures of classical music and the harmonic concepts of the XXth century. Although the author has been mainly described as influenced mainly by such authors as Ginastera, Villalobos and de los Ríos, he can also be labeled as part of the modern post-Piazzola tango, being his work.
"A modern form of developing tango, growing apart for the influence of jazz, in its own and innovative style."
