DANIEL DOURA
Born in Buenos Aires on August 9, 1957.
Started taking guitar and piano lessons in 1966.
Studied harmony and music history at the Guildhall School of Music, London.
Graduated from Boston Conservatory (Massachusetts) with a BA in composition.
Courses in electro acoustics and music at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) with Barry Vercoe and with Arthur Krieger in New York.
More composition classes with Hugo Norden, John Cage, Mario Davidovski, Jack Beeson, Chow Wen Chung, Alberto Ginastera, Luciano Berio, Toru Takemitsu, Theodor Antoniu, Milton Babbit, John Adams and Fred Lerdahl.
Postgraduate studies at the University of Columbia, New York (1983-1987).
Member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus / Boston Symphony Orchestra between 1979 and 1982.
Further training courses in conducting with Seiji Ozawa, Rouben Gregorian and Colin Davis.
Various composition awards such as the 1st Prize in Composition from ASCAP, New York (1985).
Composed music for the Ballet Nacional de Venezuela (1984) and for choreographers Hector Zaraspe and Vicente Nebrada.
In 2007, Doura’s symphonic poem "Visiones Patagonicas" written in 1998 was elected “Best Argentinian Premiere” by the Argentinian Music Critics Association.
2011 saw the premiere of his SINFONÍA ARGENTINA at the Theater Colon.
Since 2013, Doura’s music has been published by Musica Mundana (Geneva, Switzerland).
