Eduardo Ferraudi
Conductor
Arranger, composer, singer and choir conductor. He took courses on choir directing with Robert Sund (Sweden), Néstor Andrenacci (Argentina), Josep Prats (Spain), Verner Pfaff (Germany) and he studied mastering in harmony and composition with Manolo Juárez.
He has been director and arranger of vocal groups, principally dedicated to Argentine and Latin American folk music. Nowadays he is singer, director and arranger of the folk vocal quintet Albahaca and the chamber choir Vocal Consonante.
He also conducts “Taller Coral ECuNHi” y “Ensamble Coral A Redoblar” choirs. He is the author of many popular music choral arrangements, most of which have been performed by well known Argentine vocal groups. Some of these are published by Ediciones GCC
In 1998 he obtained the First prize in the First Choral Works National Contest, organized by Encuentros Corales Bonaerenses. In 1999 he took part in the first Meeting of popular Argentine music arrangers, organized by GCC (Grupo de Canto Coral) This event was declared of National Interest by the National Secretary of Culture.
With Vocal Consonante he obtained the following prizes:
- Third Prize 2003 and First Prize 2004 in the National Coral Competition of Popular Music “Venado Coral” (City of Venado Tuerto, Santa Fe, Argentina).
- and First Prize and Highest Score Prize in the International Choral Contest of Perfomance to the Sudamerican Folk Music AAMCANT 2008 (Asociación Argentina para la Música Coral América Cantat) in La Plata, Buenos Aires province.
In March of 2005 was edited his first book, “Los Arreglos Corales en la Música Popular. Elementos necesarios para su creación”, one of the first argentine texts with information and elements for the composition of Argentine Popular Music Choral arrangements.
He is the chair of Harmonic Instrument at the City Hall Music Institute of Avellaneda, Buenos Aires province.
Nowadays he make up workshops of Argentine folk vocal music in several Argentine provinces and he is juror in contests of vocal arrangements and contests of popular music choirs.
Recently, the new CD of his vocal group Albahaca, “Perspectivas” won the Second Prize of the “Concurso Régimen de Fomento para Ediciones Discográficas de Música Folklórica Argentina, Fondo Nacional de las Artes" –2007-.
See Eduardo Ferraudi's arrangements catalog.
Published articles by Eduardo Ferraudi on ADICORA annual magazine (2007-2008)
- Reflexiones sobre la relación Rítmo-Melodía-Texto en la música popular aplicada a la interepretación de un arreglo coral: lo ANÁLOGO en tensión y comunión con lo DIGITAL (Page 1 - Page2 - Page 3)
- Decisiones interpretativas sobre la base del fraseo melódico: Ejemplificación sobre el Tango NADA de Dames y Sanguinetti (Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3)