Juan Maria Solare (born August il, 1966) is a composer and pianist. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he studied and received his diploma in Piano, Composition and Conducting at the Conservatorio National de Musica Carlos Lopez Buchardo. He has composed more than 175 works, about a third of them performed. His pieces are broadcast regularly (Radio National de Espafia, Deutsche Welle, Radio Bremen, Radio Fabrik Salzburg, Radio Universitaria Sao Paulo). Beside his compositional activities he also writes for diverse publications and for the radio Deutsche Welle. He gives courses and lectures on contemporary music. He obtained prizes and awards in Argentina, United Kingdom, Austria and Germany. From 1986 unti1 1993 he taught Harmony, Morphology and Chamber Music at the Conservatory of Tandil (Argentina). Between 1993 and 1996 he undertook postgraduate studies on Composition at the Musikhochschule in Cologne (Germany) under the guidante of Johannes Fritsch, Clarence Barlow and Mauricio Kagel, in the frame of a scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Between October 1997 and February 1999, postgraduate studies with Helmut Lachenmann in Stuttgart. Between 1999 and 2001 studied electronic music with Hans Ulrich Humpert in Cologne, with Diploma. In January 2002 jury (piano} in the competition Jugend Musiziert. Between July 1998 and June 1999 he held a scholarship of the Heinrich-Strobel Foundation (Baden-Baden). Since June 2001 until May 2002 he had a scholarship as “composer in residence” at the Ktinstlerhauser (House of Artists) in Worpswede, Germany. For 2003 he received commissions from the CDMC (Centro para la Difusion de la Musica Contemporanea, Madrid) and from the Stiftung Kunst & Kultur in NRW (Dtisseldorf). As a pianist, his repertoire has four centers: classical music from the late Romanticism (such as Franz Liszt or Alexander Scriabin), contemporary classical (John Cage, Arnold Schoenberg), Argentine composers (including tango; Astor Piazzolla), and his own compositions - both as soloist and in different chamber music groups.