Oscar Strasnoy is a French-Argentine composer, conductor, and pianist. He has composed twelve stage works, including operas performed at Spoleto, Rome, Paris (Opéra Comique, Théâtre du Châtelet), Hamburg, Bordeaux, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires, Berlin State Opera; a live-accompanied silent film score for Anthony Asquith’s Underground, which premiered at the Louvre in 2004 and was subsequently played at the Cine Doré in Madrid, the Mozarteum Argentino, Kyoto, and Tokyo; and a secular cantata, Hochzeitsvorbereitungen (mit B und K). He has also composed several pieces of chamber, vocal, and orchestral music, including his song cycle Six Songs for the Unquiet Traveller, which premiered in 2004 performed by the Nash Ensemble and Ann Murray in a concert to inaugurate the newly refurbished Wigmore Hall in London. Strasnoy’s works are primarily published by Universal Edition (Vienna), Chant du Monde (Paris) and Billaudot (Paris). His opera Midea is published by Ricordi (Milan).