Pedro Pablo García Caffi, former director of the Teatro Colón, passed away

born in september 1944 in Buenos Aires, where he studied music and piano with Maria Asuncion Fernandezguitar at the conservatory Ward Collegetransverse flute with Carmelo Velardoauditory perception and singing with Clelia Troisi and sing with Edward Cogorno. She was also trained in corporal expression, theater, directing and staging, and art history.

In 1966, together with his brother John Josephfounded the Zupay Quartetwhich he integrated and directed for 25 years, with a proposal understood by critics at the time as a “renewal” in Argentine folk music.

With Pedro Pablo García Caffi as executive producer, Zupay edited 20 best-selling albums in numerous countriesamong them Japan, Spain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United States, Canada, Colombia, Venezuela, Uruguay and Chile.

With Zupay he carried out numerous shows, in which he himself did the staging, lighting and directing, in addition to its subsequent translation in film format (short and medium-length). These shows toured internationally in the region of North America, Europe and Israel.

Already focused on the activity of cultural management and administration, García Caffi was named in 1992 CEO of the Buenos Aires Philharmonica position he held until August nineteen ninety six. And in the middle of 1997 was appointed executive director of the Bariloche Camerato which a year later he added the position of president of the Chamber Music Center.

in december 1999was appointed general and artistic director of the Argentine Theater Arts Centerwhich he served until January 2002. Finally, in February 2009assumed the General and Artistic Direction of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aireswhich he held until January 2015.