Argentine composer and conductor. He studied piano with Raul Spivak and Walter Gieseking, and composition with Ginastera. In 1958, he began his career as a conductor when an Inter-American Festival was held in Argentina. He was appointed assistant director to the Chicago Lyric Opera in 1965, and later conducted for the Washington Opera Society, the New York City Opera, and the American Opera Theater at the Juilliard School of Music. He was a member of the Agrupacion Musica Viva, founded in Buenos Aires by Gerardo Gandini, Armando Krieger, and Alcides Lanza. In 1969, he received a Guggenheim Scholarship. As a composer, Tauriello belongs to the Argentine avant garde. (Tesi Hernan Mouro)