Gabriel Castagna
The Argentine conductor Gabriel Castagna began his musical studies in Buenos Aires and continued in the USA, where he studied at the Universities of Rochester, Cincinnati, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh and Michigan. Among his teachers were Gustav Meier, Robert Page and Samuel Jones. He has participated in master-classes with Leonard Bernstein, Sergiu Celibidache and Max Rudolf and is the recipient of many awards and other distinctions. Devoted to promoting the symphonic works of Argentine composers, Gabriel Castagna has performed and recorded the music of Alberto Ginastera, Astor Piazzolla, among others.