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MATIAS LAPUNZINA
Original Music / Musical Direction
He was born in Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina. At the age of 7, he began to study piano, with teacher Celina Federik. He then continued his training in Harmony and Audioperception with Gari Di Pietro and taught himself to play guitar and bass. He also continued his piano studies with professors Zunilda Soncini and José Bulos. He was a student at the "Professor Constancio Carminio" School of Music in the city of Paraná, at the middle level, for a period of one year. He joined musical groups with various stylistic aspects:
Trio (Jazz group with pianist Natalio González Petrich and drummer Cristian Macchi
Ebony Soul (2009-2013)
Santa Fe Jazz Ensemble Junior (period 2011-2012, and again in 2019-2020),
Juan Vidal, singer-songwriter of the Paraná trova (2008-2012)
Prana Trio, folklore – song (2008-2013)
Radio Kalifas (2015-2016)
Willy Crook & The Funky Torinos (as a pianist on tours of the interior, period 2012-2015)
He developed an interest in composition and in 2009 began his university studies in music in 2009 at the Higher Institute of Music of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, where he has had an intense activity within the career of Bachelor of Music with Orientation in Composition, taking classes with Lilia Vieri, Jorge Acevedo and Natalia Solomonoff. He has participated in popular music seminars with artists such as Nora Sarmoria, Willy González, Carlos Aguirre and other prominent figures on the national scene.
He has made compositions for musical theater works together with Juan Salomone, a composer from Paraná, included in the works:
“Let's all go on board” (2016, by Gerardo Romero),
“Crazy Experiments” (2015, by Gerardo Romero)
"Following a dream" (2014, by Edgardo Zamora).
He has composed original music for the musical theater play, “Los Müller: every family hides a secret”, written by Jeremías DiFilippo, premiered in October 2018, and for “EnPoderadas”, to be released in October 2020, by the same author, both produced by “Encitado Producciones” from the city of Córdoba. She has expanded her artistic training through singing and musical theater. He took singing lessons with Gustavo Cortés (leading voice of the Santa Fe group Sig Ragga), with the Paraná singer Florencia Suksdorf and with the singer Mara Scardino, member of the Polyphonic Choir of the Province of Santa Fe.
Since 2013, she has been a stable member of the “Ciudad de Santa Fe” Municipal Choir, under the direction of Maestro Juan Sebastián Barbero, where she has also participated as a solo singer with the “Ciudad de Santa Fe” Municipal Symphonic Band, under the direction of Master Omar Lacuadra. He has participated as an actor and singer in the productions of the works:
“Luisa Fernanda” (Zarzuela de Romero – Shaw and Moreno Torroba, in 2013, put on by the regisseur José Darío Innella, in the role of “El Padre Lucas”)
“The magician of dreams” (opera by Argentine composer Alberto Balzanelli, in 2015)
“Los Puguets” children's musical by Felicitas Producciones (written and directed by Micaela Roggero, year 2016)
“Babel, the musical”, written and directed by Fabio Sosa (2016).
“September, a musical to fall in love with”, written and directed by Gustavo Palacios Pilo (2017-2018), from the Santa Fe production company Operetas Solo Musicales.
Within the production company Operetas Solo Musicales, he served as Assistant Musical Director and Copyist for Maestro Juan Candioti, in the project "Soy, esa Alfonsina, un musical", premiered on August 15, 2018. He served as Musical Director of the play “Barquitos de papel”, by Elisabet Greco, María José de la Torre and Alejandro DeGiorgis, in its second season in 2018 and during its revival in 2019.
