Osvaldo Golijov

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 and Youth Without Youth. His two most recent works are Um Dia Bom, premiered by Brooklyn Rider, and Ever Yours, premiered by the St Lawrence String Quartet and the Telegraph Quartet. Upcoming projects include a violin concerto for Johnny Gandelsman and The Knights, and the film soundtracks for J. A Bayona’s La Sociedad de la Nieve and Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. He was born in La Plata, Argentina, in 1960, and lived in Jerusalem before immigrating to the US. He is the Loyola Professor of Music at The College of the Holy Cross.