Beatriz Ferreyra

Beatriz Mercedes Ferreyra (born 21 June 1937) is an Argentine composer. She lives and works in Hameau de Hodeng, France. Early work and study Ferreyra was born in Cordoba, Argentina, and studied piano with Celia Bronstein in Buenos Aires. She continued her study of music with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and worked with Earle Brown and György Ligeti in Germany. Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) In 1963 she took a position in the research department of the Office de Radiodiffusion Television Francaise (ORTF), working with the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) directed by Pierre Schaeffer. She assisted with Henri Chiarucci’s and Guy Reibel’s Rapport entre la hauteur et la fondamentale d’un son musical, published in 1966 in Revue Internationale d’Audiologie and Pierre Schaeffer’s Solfège de l’Objet Sonore. During this time she also lectured at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. Film music In 1973, Ferreyra was invited to write the music for Fiorella Mariani’s film Homo Sapiens (Fiorella is the niece of filmmaker Roberto Rossellini). The hour-long work was completely electroacoustic, for which Ferreyra also did the performing, editing, and mixing. Mariani’s fi