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Pedro Ignacio Calderón

Pedro Ignacio Calderón (* 1933 in Paraná) is in Argentine Conductor.

Calderón was pupil of Vicente Scaramuzza, Alberto Ginastera and Hermann Scherchen. 1953 it debütierte as a conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Nacional in Buenos Aires. 1958 he became a director orchestras of Tucumán. it followed to 1960 Rome, where it to the Academia de Santa Cecilia Fernando Previtali studied. From 1966 to 1991 he was with short interruptions a director of the Philharmoni orchestra of Buenos Aires, with which he into the 1970er years all symphonies Gustav Mahlers specified. Besides it gastierte as a conductor numerous further Latin American as well as European Sinfonieorchester and directed to Teatro Colón and other opera houses the works of Verdi, Puccini, Rossini, Wagner, Rimski Korsakow and de Falla. 1996 and 1998 he was selected by the music critic federation of Argentina to the best conductor of the season, in the following year from the Fundación Conex to one of the five best conductors of the decade.