About

Born in Buenos Aires in 1979, Santiago is an Argentinian-Italian Music Conductor, Composer and Scholar of the philosophical traditions of the East and West. Dr. Lusardi Girelli has worked as lecturer and choir and orchestra conductor and in more than 20 countries in Europe, South America, Africa and Asia for the last 20 years. He has studies Orchestra, Choir conduction, Philosophy, Theology, and a PhD in Music and Philosophy. He has published researches on Buddhist Phenomenology and Hindu Ritualism and its links with Western Music & Art Tradition. Santiago has conducted choirs and orchestras, professional and amateurs, around the world throughout more than 400 concerts, and leaded music tours in several countries, from the Amazonas Rain Forest to Leipzig-Germany (J.S. Bach´s city); and from Peruvian Machu Pichu to the Indian Himalayas. As composer he has premiered more than 30 pieces of choral and orchestral music in Asia and Europe, and performed in scenarios as the NCPA with the Symphony Orchestra of India, premiered his BIG OCEAN CANTATA in the presence of the Dalai Lama, and premier his oratory Passion Landscapes with some of the most renowned Indian artists as Vidya Sha and Pandit Ritwik Sanyal. Furthermore, Currently located India, Dr. Santiago Lusardi Girelli holds the Western Music Chair as VRPP at the Goa University in India, he also he also collaborates as Lecturer, Composer and Guest Conductor with different Universities and professional orchestras and choirs from South America, Africa, Europe and India.  

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        Furthermore, Santiago has been involved in a wide range of music educational cooperation projects around the globe as researcher, music director and educator, as the worldwide known EL SISTEMA in Latin America for more 5 years; and as composer and researcher he has released dozens of original compositions of choral and orchestra music, combining ancient music traditions with contemporary composing techniques. He has published articles and essays on philosophy, music and theology as well. As Music director and composer he released more than 30 album productions, and conducted hundreds of symphonic, choral, opera and musical concerts.

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   Currently located in Spain and India, Dr. Santiago Lusardi Girelli holds the Anthony Gonsalves Chair as Visiting Research Professor at the Goa University in India, working as lecturing professor and conductor of the Goa University Choir -the very first University choir of India-, he also collaborates as Lecturer, Composer and Guest Conductor with different Universities and professional orchestras and choirs  from South America, Africa, Europe and India. 

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