Analia Llugdar

Who is Analia Llugdar?

Analia Llugdar is an Argentine composer who came to Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1999. She has won several music competitions, including first prize in the chamber music category of the CBC Radio National Competition for Young Composers, the Jeunesses Musicales du Canada Award, the Grand Prix of the Canada Council for the Arts, and the 2008 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music.

Llugdar earned a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance from the National University of Córdoba in 1999. She then entered the graduate music program at Laval University, but soon transferred to the Université de Montréal where she graduated with a Master of Music and a Doctor of Music in composition. Among her teachers at the school were José Evangelista and Denis Gougeon.