Discipline: Music Composition

Gustavo Moretto

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Cliffside Park, NJ
MacDowell Fellowships: 1992
Gustavo Moretto is an Argentine composer, pianist, trumpet player, singer-songwriter, and educator. He was a member of on of the country’s most famous bands, Alma y Vida in the 1970s. He later left the band to form ALAS (band) together with Alex Zuker and Carlos Riganti where he was the composer and keyboard player. In 1979, Mr. Moretto traveled to the United States where he pursued formal training in composition. He holds a doctorate degree in music composition from Columbia University, bachelor's degree from The New England Conservatory and has been a professor in charge of the instrumental program at La Guardia Community College in New York City since 1996. Moretto has received such honors as a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Norton Stevens Fellowship at MacDowell, ASCAP's Raymond Hubbell Music Scholarship Award, a Fellowship at the Composer's Conference at Wellesley College, and a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation sponsorship at Yaddo.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Gustavo Moretto worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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