Miguel Ángel Gilardi  Miguel Ángel Gilardi (born in Buenos Aires) is an orchestra conductor. He is the son of the Argentinian composer Gilardo Gilardi and María Lucrecia Madariaga. He completed his musical studies at the Manuel de Falla Superior Conservatory of Buenos Aires, from which he graduated with the Gold Medal. After becoming a stable member of the "Orquesta Estable del Teatro Colón" and the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orquestra he was awarded a scholarship by Germany to study at the Superior School of Music in Cologne and the Rhin Conservatory and then by the "Mozarteum Argentino" to study at the Academy and Conservatory of Saint Cecily of Rome. He has been Main Conductor of the following symphonic orchestras: "Tucumán" (Estable y de la UNT) "Rosario", "Nacional de Música Argentina", "Banda Sinfónica municipal de Buenos Aires", of the "Festival Internacional de Cascabel" in Brasil and the CCPA of Asunción del Paraguay. He has performed as Guest Conductor with the most important Argentinian symphonic orchestras among them and in several occasions with the "Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional", the "Filarmónica de Buenos Aires" and the orchestra and choir "Estables del Teatro Argentino de La Plata". He has also conducted in Germany, Austria, Brazil, Chile, Spain, the United States, Finland, France, Italy, Israel, Moldavia, Paraguay and Venezuela. He has accompanied international soloists such as Boris Belkin, Rudolf Firkusny, Ruggiero Ricci, Barry Tuckwell among other and important Argentinian soloists. Linked to the Paris Sinfonietta since 1994 he has conducted several concerts in that city and the rest of France; specially symphonic-choral works such as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Requiem and great Mass in C by Mozart, Stabat Mater by Poulenc and Pergolesi, Fauré's Requiem and also premiered several works, mostly of Latin American and Argentinian composers. He has conducted opera and ballet with works by Menotti, Mozart, Pergolesi, Puccini, Purcell, Verdi, Delibes, Tchaikowski, Richard Strauss among others.