INCORPORATES
AFFILIATED WITH
DANIEL GOLDSTEIN / Argentine pianist
President and co-founder of
INTERNATIONAL SOUND AND TIME FOUNDATION /
IL SUONO E IL TEMPO / SOUND & TIME
(ARGENTINA - ITALY - USA)
President of
LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PIANO TEACHERS - ALAPP, ARGENTINA headquarters
affiliated with
EUROPEAN PIANO TEACHERS - EPTA
SIMONE PAGANI / Italian pianist
Director and co-founder of the International Sound and Time Foundation -
Il Suono and Il Tempo Internazionale, ITALY
GIUSEPPE DEVASTATO / Italian pianist
Director of the International Sound and Time Foundation
/Il Suono and Il Tempo / Sound & Time
EUROPE
RICARDO ZANÓN / Argentine pianist
Director of the Foundation - Patagonian Region, Argentina
Artistic members
EDUARDO HOFFMANN / plastic artist
José Luis Castiñeira de Dios / composer, conductor, and cultural manager
DIANA LOPSZYC / pianist
MANUEL FRAGA / pianist
NATALIA GONZÁLEZ FIGUEROA / pianist
NÉLIDA SANCHEZ / pianist
ESTELA TELERMAN / pianist
EDUARDO TAMI / flutist
Honorary members
SAÚL COSENTINO / composer
CHRISTINE WALEVSKA / cellist (USA - Argentina)
HISTORY
“……. the musical phenomenon is nothing but a phenomenon of speculation. This expression should not frighten you in the least…”
The elements that necessarily concern this speculation are the elements of sound and time.... Music is not imaginable without them.”
Igor Strawinsky: “Musical Poetics ”
CULTURAL MANAGEMENT of the 21st CENTURY
The Sound and Time International Foundation celebrates its 33rd anniversary in 2025, developing 21st-century cultural management.
Our cultural background underpins our activities, which are carried out with the concept of teamwork integration and ongoing cultural exchange, including young people in training.
Our vision of modern cultural management is the realization of projects as a platform for cultural and artistic products with leading figures from the world of art and culture.
Music education and artistic production are the two main concepts.
Our events, courses, workshops, concerts, masterclasses, festivals, audiovisual presentations, and others are interactive, comprehensive, and modern, opening up to the ever-expanding digital world. The continuity of these activities benefits art and culture as a concept of industry and cultural identity. This raises awareness of the need to integrate culture socially and economically, expanding educational development for new generations.
Cultural and artistic products such as MÚSICOS.AR , PIANORAMA ARGENTINO, PIANOLOFT, ONEDAY (UN DÍA), CULTURA.AR , ARTES VISUALES Y SONORAS ARGENTINA, are examples of this.
OUR HISTORY
Sound and Time, Il Suono and Il Tempo, Sound & Time was created in 1992 through the association of
young musicians from Italy and Argentina, with the aim of developing and disseminating different aspects of music through an educational and concert-based approach at an international level, generating a true cultural exchange with other countries.
Educational concert series, cultural exchanges, recitals, and especially International Courses, Competitions, and Scholarships (CCBI) for academic music in various countries (mainly Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Slovenia, the United States, Colombia, and Argentina) offer exciting opportunities for young musicians, with the support of leading figures from the world of culture.
Activities began in the cities of Bergamo and Palazzollo sul Oglio, Italy, alongside L'Associazzione Culturale Musicarte, and also in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at the initiative of Italian pianists Simone Pagani and Marco Giovanetti , and Argentine pianist Daniel Goldstein, who has since become the president and director of the international institution, which later became a Foundation in Argentina and later in the United States.
It is a priority for the Foundation to schedule activities with development and continuity, as a valid way to educate and maintain the development of an artistic career.
In this way, many of the students who have attended our institution continue part of their education through the Foundation, subsequently participating in its activities as professionals. International educational and artistic events are organized, with concert prizes and scholarships, and we maintain ongoing exchanges with teachers and institutions from different countries.
For its ongoing educational and cultural work, the Foundation received the Argentine Critics Association Award in 2002.
The Sound and Time International Foundation was originally the cultural support of RAC (Computer-Assisted Rehabilitation), dedicated to research and the use of new computer techniques for the care of people with various disabilities, enabling them to integrate into society.
His mentor, architect Enrique Horacio Goldstein (father of Daniel Goldstein), suffered from multiple sclerosis.
The architect's personality, his culture, his life, and later his illness, are deeply connected to the focus and objectives of our Foundation: to promote teamwork, the constant pursuit of proposed goals, the perseverance and strength to achieve them, the sharing of one's own experiences, and, above all, the sharing of a passion for what one does.
El Sonido y El Tiempo / Il Suono e Il Tempo, in conjunction with these organizations dedicated to people with various disabilities, has developed educational concert series in our country and abroad, linking these social themes to culture in an integrative manner.
The history of the International Sound and Time Foundation was born from these concepts.
Since 2023, the INTERNATIONAL SOUND AND TIME FOUNDATION
joins the Latin American Association of Piano Teachers (ALAPP)
ARGENTINA headquarters
affiliated with EUROPEAN PIANO TEACHERS ASSOCIATION (EPTA)
Since 1998, the Sound and Time International Foundation has carried out, as its fundamental task, the rescue and dissemination of Argentine musicians, performers, and composers with important careers in our musical history.
As a result, a new space for our national culture was created in 2009:
MUSICIANS.ar / Argentine musicians.
Maestro José Bragato was the artistic sponsor of this production, as he is a popular and academic music personality with a significant career and national and international relevance, who represents a century of our history and the "imprint" of our cultural identity.
This goal was achieved through a review of the maestro's works—some dedicated specifically to this project—and his arrangements by various composers.
A survey and study of the works of invited performers from both Spain and abroad was carried out, and concerts, courses, and workshops were then held in various venues and educational institutions, thus promoting artistic and educational dissemination.
This objective was expanded with the audiovisual documentary "José Bragato, Scores of His Life," serving as the starting point for capturing the experience and contributions of our great artists as part of our cultural identity.
Since then, current authors such as Saúl Cosentino, José Luis Castiñeira de Dios, Irma Urteaga, Amanda Guerreño, and from other generations such as Eva Lopszyc, Pablo Aguirre, Nelly Gómez and Claudia Montero, among others, who join historical Argentine composers such as Julián Aguirre, Alberto Williams, Juan José Castro, Jacobo Ficher, Gilardo Gilardi, Alberto Ginastera, Carlos Guastavino, Isabel Aretz, Gerardo Gandini, Antonio Tauriello, as well as Astor Piazzolla, Atahualpa Yupanqui and Cuchi Leguizamón, among other artists, who represent a broad panorama of the musical world of Argentina.
Músicos.ar [Argentine musicians] also develops Latin American music as an exchange of our cultures.
Within the Músicos.ar [Argentine musicians] space , we have developed a new concept:
It is a proposal that began in 2011 , designed with programs from the repertoire and artists from the world of jazz, tango and melodic, folklore and universal classical, it seeks to reflect "the expression on the PIANO of the popular in academic classical, tango, folklore, jazz" as a development of piano culture. The concept of unifying music in its essence by playing works for solo piano and then combining the piano for 4, 6 and 8 hands and 2 pianos, even with improvisations on classical works by Mozart, Chopin and others.
For this reason, the concert program includes works by "classical" composers from the universal repertoire and by Argentine academics such as Aguirre, Ginastera, Castro, and Tauriello; tango and popular composers such as José Luis Castiñera de Dios, Saúl Cosentino, José Bragato, and Astor Piazzolla; and jazz composers such as Ammons, Ellington, Gershwin, and Brubeck, among others.
PIANORAMA ARGENTINO is a panorama of the piano in its different aspects that originally brought together pianists SAÚL COSENTINO (also in his role as composer) in tango and melodic, MANUEL FRAGA in jazz and DANIEL GOLDSTEIN in classical and tango.
After several years of development, other pianists and artists of different characteristics are invited such as DIANA LOPSZYC, LILIAN SABA, RICARDO ZANÓN, MARIO PARMISANO, NATALIA GONZALEZ FIGUEROA, DANIELA SALINAS, GRACIELA BURGOS, NÉLIDA SÁNCHEZ, ANA STAMPALIA, MIRTA HERRERA (based in Italy), ALBERTO PORTUGHEIS (based in England) and also from other countries such as SIMONE PAGANI, ROBERTO PROSSEDA, GIUSEPPE DEVASTATO from Italy, TOMAS DRATVA from Switzerland, LUIS PIPA from Portugal, ALBERTO URROZ, MIGUEL ÁNGEL LAIZ from Spain; and in Latin America to MARÍA DEL CARMEN GIL from Puerto Rico, CLAUDIO DAUELSBERG from Brazil, LUIS PEREZ AQUINO from Uruguay, among others, which includes the educational task with the PIANO TECHNIQUE WORKSHOP of in-person and online group classes that work together in the masterclasses.
Pianists with very diverse styles develop their piano technique in classical music, jazz, tango, and folklore. This workshop is being held in the country and abroad. This workshop covers the various basic aspects of piano technique, as well as the need to raise awareness of the piano machine to open up a broader world of possibilities in piano playing, especially in improvisation techniques. It primarily emphasizes the development of piano technique to delve deeper into the evolution of the interpretation of the repertoire that will be covered throughout the year.
Interpretation and improvisation, and the piano technician
The study of the piano should be carried out not only from the musical aspect, its style, or the spiritual and intuitive.
Fundamentally, it requires a commitment to the concept of training. This concept includes, as some of its pillars, an understanding of hand assembly, the five touches, awareness of "gravitational" and energy, weight, and musculature and bone engineering as a truly unified system. We understand that incorporating this training into a practical approach provides us with the channels to more freely express the sound we want to produce at any given moment, and then develop our musical perception with all our emotional and personal intentions.
Pianists with very different styles develop their piano technique in classical music, jazz, tango and folklore.
The incorporation of the piano technician with Maestro JUAN ALBERTO SCHULTIS, RPT - SCHULTISPIANOS, generated the workshop "AL PIANO: mechanics and sound", the link between pianists and piano technology.
As a result of so many years of workshops, masterclasses and concerts, in 2023 the publication of the book "AL PIANO: mecánica y sonido" (ON THE PIANO: mechanics and sound) will be released, produced by our Foundation together with the Argentine Pianorama brand with the El Aleph Publishing House, in physical and digital versions.
