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Osvaldo Noé Golijov (Spanish pronunciation:; born December 5, 1960) is an Argentine composer of classical music and music professor, known for his vocal and orchestral work.
Osvaldo Golijov’s works include the St Mark Passion; the opera Ainadamar; Azul, a cello concerto; The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, for clarinet and string quartet; the song cycles Ayre and Falling Out of Time; and the soundtracks for Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro, Youth Without Youth, and the upcoming Megalopolis.
Apr 29, 2024 · Osvaldo Golijov, Argentine composer, known for his eclectic approach to concert music, who became one of the most successful classical artists of the early 21st century in the United States. His best-known works included Yiddishbbuk, La Pasion segun San Marcos, and Ayre.
Nov 5, 2020 · Once published, the book found its way into the hands of Osvaldo Golijov, a composer who was then struggling through his own painful silence.
Mar 17, 2013 · Osvaldo Golijov Puts It To Music. January 18, 2021 • In his newest work, Falling Out of Time, composer Osvaldo Golijov explores a painful subject — the death of a child. He was inspired by a...
Jan 18, 2021 · Osvaldo Golijov is a MacArthur "genius" composer who's written for Yo-Yo Ma, Kronos Quartet and soprano Dawn Upshaw. But in 2012, he was accused of plagiarism, and he...
Oct 2, 2020 · Osvaldo Golijov’s Falling Out Of Time for Silkroad Ensemble is a masterpiece as intellectually stimulating as it is emotionally gripping. It cracks open how we experience time and how this experience is disrupted by grief and eventually dismantled by death.
Osvaldo Golijov grew up in an Eastern European Jewish household in La Plata, Argentina. Born to a piano teacher mother and physician father, Golijov was raised surrounded by classical chamber music, Jewish liturgical and klezmer music, and the new tango of Astor Piazzolla.
Golijov is Loyola Professor of Music at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, where he has taught since 1991. He also has been teaching for decades at Tanglewood, has led workshops at Carnegie Hall with Dawn Upshaw, and is a frequent advisor at the Sundance Composers Labs.
In its first incarnation, Golijov imagined Azul as a memento of his own time as a Tanglewood fellow when he would listen to open-air concerts on bucolic summer evenings, with the peaceful blue sky as a canopy.
