Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland: Composers

Victor Lazzarini
(b. 1969)

'I feel my work as a composer is continuous with my other
activities, such as jazz performance, teaching and, especially,
research. I like to think that the boundaries between these are
blurred and that there is a cross-pollination that drives my
enthusiasm for composing (as well as playing, teaching,
thinking...). I realise my work as much as my work
realises me: rotas opera tenet arepo sator.'

Victor Lazzarini
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	•	Ensemble
	•	Solo instrumental
	•	Vocal and choral
	•	Electro-acoustic and mixed media
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Victor Lazzarini was born in Londrina, Brazil. He began his musical studies at the local conservatory and his first contact with composition was at the winter courses of the Festival de Música de Londrina as a pupil of Aylton Escobar and Claudio Santoro. He read music at Campinas State University (UNICAMP) as a composition pupil of Damiano Cozzella and Almeida Prado and, following graduation, was awarded a scholarship to pursue postgraduate study at the University of Nottingham, where he obtained his doctoral degree in 1996.

He is currently Senior Lecturer at the Department of Music and director of the Music Technology laboratory at NUI Maynooth. Major composition awards include the Hallward Composition Prize (1996) for his ‘Magnificat’, a large-scale work for voices, choir, instruments, orchestra and tape; and first prize at the 2006 IMRO/AIC Mostly Modern International Composition Competition for ‘Dance of the Dawn’.

(biography © Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland)