Mónica Cosachov facts for kids
Monica Cosachov, born on September 7, 1946, is a talented musician from Argentina. She plays the harpsichord and piano, and she also writes her own music. Besides performing, she teaches at universities and research centers around the world.
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About Monica Cosachov
Monica Cosachov was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She started her music journey by studying composition, piano, and harpsichord at the National Conservatory of Music in Buenos Aires. Later, she continued her studies at famous music schools in Italy, like the Yehudi Menuhin International Academy. While learning, she became very interested in chamber music, which is music played by a small group of instruments.
Monica's Music Career
Monica Cosachov has been involved with the Camping Musical Bariloche music festival. She helped start the Camerata Bariloche, a well-known music group, and was a soloist with them. She also became the Director of Research and Teaching at the Bariloche Foundation.
Her work often combines different subjects, like music and science. This led her to teach as a visiting professor at universities and research centers in other countries.
Teaching and Leadership
Monica Cosachov is currently the Director of the Interdisciplinary School of Music. This school is a training center for artists and also works on social projects. For her creative work and for helping young artists, she won the Alicia Moreau de Justo prize.
Argentina is part of the Council of Unesco, a United Nations organization. Through this connection, Monica has taught special classes in Argentina and at universities in other countries. These include Colombia, Prague, Bavaria, Switzerland, and several other Latin American countries. In 2005, she was chosen to be the director of the Fondo Nacional de las Artes, which is like the National Endowment for the Arts in Argentina.
Performances and Students
As a harpsichordist and pianist, Monica Cosachov has performed concerts with many famous musicians. Some of these include Alberto Lysy, Jean-Pierre Rampal, and Walter Trampler. She has also taught many students, and two of her outstanding students are Mario Raskin and Oscar Milani.
Monica is very interested in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, a famous composer from long ago. She has led special classes about Bach's Goldberg Variations and his other keyboard and chamber music. Critics have praised her complete performance of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier.
Monica's Compositions and Books
Monica Cosachov has written many musical pieces. Some of her works include La Rama Dorada, Concierto de Cámaras, and La Magia de la Navidad. These pieces have been performed in famous theaters around the world, such as the Zurich Opera, The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Carnegie Hall in New York, and the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires.
Her works Los Siete Escalones Místicos and Los Tres Estados del Dragón were first performed at the Festival of Sacred Music in Ljubljana, Poland, and Trieste, Italy. In 2002, she released a music CD called Bach De Buenos Aires. More recently, she released her latest music production, Mi Corazón es mi casa.
Besides composing music, Monica Cosachov is also an author. She wrote a book called Musicos, los mensajeros del sonido (Musicians, the Messengers of Sound), which was published in 1988.
See also
In Spanish: Mónica Cosachov para niños
