Jorge Calandrelli is an Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 composer, arranger and orchestrator.

His truly ingenious arranging and composing techniques, especially his beautiful string writing, makes him very well recognized on many records of today's pop - jazz/ Jazz commercial record publications.

Big record stars hired him for writing arrangements, including Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand

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, Andrea Bocelli

Andrea Bocelli

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, Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett

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, Celine Dion

Celine Dion

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, Ricky Martin

Ricky Martin

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, Luis Miguel, Eddie Daniels

Eddie Daniels

Eddie Daniels is an American musician. Though he is best known as a jazz clarinet player, he has also played alto and tenor saxophones, as well as classical music on the clarinet....

, Barry Manilow

Barry Manilow

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, and many others.

One of his most interesting works is the concerto for jazz clarinet and orchestra. He wrote it under the 1984 New York

New York

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 winter impression. With slight inflections from composers like Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....

 and Bartók, it has 3 movements: Allegro, Adagio and Presto

Presto

-As a common word:* An incantation or interjection used by some stage magicians* A musical score marking indicating a fast tempo* An exclamation to mean: [to be completed] right away, instantly, i.e. "magically"-Places:*Presto, Bolivia...

. Calandrelli earned for this work the "Wavedon Award" - All music composer of the year. Among others, he has been nominated for 2 Academy Awards

Academy Awards

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 and 22 Grammy Award

Grammy Award

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s. Other credits include The Shining

The Shining (film)

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(1980, uncredited orchestrator), Tron

Tron (film)

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(1982, orchestrator), The Color Purple

The Color Purple

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(1985, adapttor and orchestrator), and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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(2000, composer, music producer).

Another of his collaborators are the outstanding conductor and composer Ettore Stratta. With Statta he recorded other 3 records based on Latin America

Latin America

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n music: boleros, bossa nova

Bossa nova

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s, and tango.

Calandrelli was awarded the Latin Grammy Award

Latin Grammy Awards of 2010

The 11th Annual Latin Grammy Awards were held on November 11, 2010 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was the third time the annual event had taken place at this location. The eligibility period for recordings to be nominated was July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010. Nominations...

 for Producer of the Year

Latin Grammy Award for Producer of the Year

The Latin Grammy Award for Producer of the Year is an honor presented annually at the Latin Grammy Awards, a ceremony that recognizes excellence and creates a wider awareness of cultural diversity and contributions of Latin recording artists, in the United States and internationally...

, along Gregg Field, for his work on the album A Time for Love

A Time for Love (Arturo Sandoval album)

- Personnel :*Kenny Barron – piano*Shelly Berg – arranger, piano, rhythm arrangements*Chuck Berghofer – bass*Charlie Bisharat, Darius Campo, Kevin Connolly, David Ewart, Tamara Hatwan, Tiffany Yi Hu, Razdan Kuyumijian, Songa Lee, Natalie Leggett, Phillip Levy, Liane Mautner, Robin...

by Cuban trompetist Arturo Sandoval

Arturo Sandoval

Arturo Sandoval is a jazz trumpeter and pianist. He was born in Artemisa, in the newest renamed Artemisa Province, Cuba....

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External links

• http://www.jorgecalandrelli.com/