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Olivari, Arcángel Castillo (b. 1959, Mérida). Venezuelan composer, now resident in both the USA and Venezuela, of mostly orchestral and electroacoustic works that have been performed in the Americas.
Mr. Olivari studied composition and conducting with Alfredo Rugeles at the Instituto Universitario de Estudios Musicales in Caracas from 1986–90, where he earned his BMus in composition. He then studied composition with Joel Hoffman and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon and computer music with Mara Helmuth at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, on a Fulbright Scholarship, and there earned his MMus in composition in 1996. He is currently working on his DMA in composition at this same school.
Among his honors are an honorable mention from the Consejo Nacional de la Cultura (1988, for Five Songs, Op. 3 [withdrawn]) and First Prize in the chamber music competition of the Asociación Cultural por la Música de Cámara (1989, for Trio de Cuerdas [withdrawn]). He has also served residencies at the MacDowell Colony (2001) and the Yaddo Arts Colony (2002).
Mr. Olivari is also active in other positions. He served as assistant conductor of the Cantoria de Mérida from 1979–83 and the children's chorus of the Orquesta Nacional Juvenil in Caracas from 1983–85 and as director of the chorus of the Unidad Educativa Instituto Educacionales Asociados in Caracas from 1987–89. He also served as director of the audiovisual archive at the Biblioteca Nacional in Caracas from 1990–92 and conducted the Banda Sinfónica de la Estado Mérida from 1992–94 and the Orquesta Nacional Juvenil in Mérida from 1992–94.
He taught Spanish at the University of Cincinnati from 1997–99.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: olivari2005@gmail.com
Street address: Mr. Arcángel Castillo Olivari, Ave. Don Tulio, Resd. La Floresta, Apto. 23, sector Glorias Patrias, Mérida, Venezuela
Telephone: + 5827 4263 7473
Cellular phone: + 5841 6772 1505
Website: http://usuarios.lycos.es/olivari2007/
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
ORCHESTRAL: Elegy, string orchestra, 1988; Three Movements for String Orchestra, 1996; Four for Four (concerto), string quartet, small orchestra, 2002; Piano Concerto, 2003
CHAMBER MUSIC: Nocturnino, harp, c. 1989; Postludio, harp, 1991; String Quartet No. 1, 1999
PIANO: Nocturnal No. 2, 1996; Four Movements for Two Pianos, 1997
ELECTROACOUSTIC: Chaos Metamorphosis, computer, 1997; Pierrot, computer, 1997; EverybodyDrinksMerlot, computer, 1999; Oración por la Paz (text by Carlos César Rodríguez), piano, CD, 2000; Save Twilight (text by Julio Cortázar [translated by Stephen Kessler]), CD, 2000; Soleando, violin, DVD, computer, 2002
DISCOGRAPHY
Nocturnino; Postludio. Isabel Santos, harp (private, 2001)
(Last updated on November 20, 2006)
