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Esteban Benzecry
In 1992 he was distinguished as "The young revelation of the Season" by the Musical Critics Association of Argentina. In 1994 the same association awarded him "The best Argentine work premiered in the 1994 Season” distinction , for his Symphony n°1 "El compendio de la vida", played by the National Symphony Orchestra. He has been a fellow of the "Interamerican Music Friends of Washington "(USA) , Mozarteum Argentino and Academie des Beaux-Arts de l'Institut de France. In 1995 he was invited as Resident Composer at the Yehudi Menuhin Academy (Switzerland).
In 1999 he was distinguished by the Academie des Beaux-Arts de l'Institut de France with the prize from the Foundation Delmas, the prize Tronchet in 2002 and the prize Georges Wildenstein in 2006. In 2004, he received the Fondation groupe d’entreprise Banque Populaire-Natexis Award for music. He is Resident Composer at the Casa de Velazquez of Madrid 2004-2006 (Academie de France a Madrid). In 2008 he received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for Music Composition.
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