Osvaldo Golijov grew up in an Eastern European Jewish household in La Plata, Argentina. Born to a piano teacher mother and physician father, Golijov was raised surrounded by classical chamber music, Jewish

In the early 90s Osvaldo Golijov began to work closely with two string quartets, the St. Lawrence and the Kronos. Both ensembles were the earliest to project Golijov's volatile and category-defying style

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Osvaldo Golijov recordings / discography Discography Tetro (soundtrack) (Deutsche Grammophon, 2009) Youth Without Youth (soundtrack) (Deutsche Grammophon, 2007) Oceana (Deutsche Grammophon, 2007) Ainadamar