Fernando Benadon is an Argentinean-American composer and educator currently residing in Maryland. He grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina before moving to Boston to study arranging and saxophone performance at the Berklee College of Music. After additional studies in Los Angeles and New York, Benadon headed to the Bay Area for a Ph.D. in composition at UC Berkeley. While in grad school, he lived in Istanbul for one year, teaching at ITÜ MIAM, and in Paris for two as a recipient of UC Berkeley's Ladd Prize. Benadon is now Professor of Music at American University in Washington DC.
Discipline:
Music Composition
Fernando Benadon
Discipline:
Music Composition
Region: Derwood, MD
MacDowell Fellowships: 2006
More:
www.fernandobenadon.com
Studios
Monday Music
Fernando Benadon worked in the Monday Music studio.
Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…