Carlos Micháns

Carlos Eduardo Micháns (born 18 August 1950) is a Dutch composer, writer and draughtsman of Argentine origin. He has lived in the Netherlands since 1982. His works (from solo pieces to large compositions for choir and orchestra) are published in The Hague by Donemus. Micháns is also a writer. He has published poetry, short stories, novels and a series of essays on Argentine history. From 1995 to 2012 he was in charge of Podium Neerlandés, a program of Radio Nederland (the Dutch international broadcast) for Latin American audiences featuring recordings made in concert halls in the Netherlands. Biography Early life and training Michans was born in Buenos Aires into a middle-class family with Spanish, French, Swedish, English, Scottish and North American ancestry, including the Argentine-born, anglo-American composer Mildred Couper (1887-1974), a pioneer of microtonal music in the US. Micháns started taking piano and theory lessons at seven, but gave up after a few years. Aged 12, he returned to piano, and while still a teenager, he was encouraged by his piano teacher Almah Melgar to play his own compositions at the yearly students concerts held at a piano shop in downtown Buenos Aire