The Argentinean conductor, Alejandro Nuss, graduated with Bachelor of Orchestral Direction from the Faculty of Arts and Musical Sciences of the Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA). He perfected with the conductors Helmuth Rilling, Pedro Ignacio Calderón, Guillermo Scarabino, Francesco Lavecchia of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma and Ferdinand Leitner at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana di Siena.
Alejandro Nuss has directed the Grupo de Arte Vocal, Ensamble Vocal e Instrumental de Buenos Aires and Coro y Orquesta del Centro Cultural Italiano de Olivos. He was guest conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica de la Universidad de San Juan, Orquesta Sinfónica de Concepción (Chile) and Orquesta Académica del Teatro Colón. His major activity was concentrated in the choral symphonic genre, which he has directed among others: Requiem by Verdi, The Creation by Haydn, Messa di Gloria by Puccini, Stabat Mater by Rossini, Ein deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms, Requiem by W.A. Mozart, Cherubini, Donizetti, Gabriel Fauré and Maurice Duruflé, Cantata by Igor Stravinsky, Et la vie l'emporta by Frank Martin, Biblical Songs by Dvorak, Canzone dei Ricordi by Gisuseppe Martucci, Rikadla by Leos Janacek, Magnificat (BWV 243) and the complete version of the Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248) by J.S. Bach. In October 2014, he created and directed Las Voces de la Usina, re-named as Ensamble Camerus (vocal & instrumental) since 2016 season. He currently lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. |