Graciela Castillo

Graciela Castillo (born 1940) is an Argentine electroacoustic composer. Life and career Graciela Castillo was born in Córdoba, Argentina. She was educated in her native city at the Conservsatorio de Musica Juan Sebastian Bach and the National University of Córdoba. Her teachers included composers César Franchisena and Francisco Kröpfl; violinist and conductor Zlatko Topolsky; and composer and pianist Nicolás Alfredo Alessio. She alo studied with Alfredo Luis Nihoul, and Ornella Ballestreri de Devoto. In the mid-1960s, she was among a group of composers that created the Experimental Music Center (Centro de Música Experimental) at the National University of Córdoba. She composed music at the center, and later took a position as Professor of Composition and Music Analysis at the National University. Works Selected works include: *Concreción 65, concrete music on tape, 1965 *Y así era, for tape, 1982 *Diálogos for two voices, typewriters, radios, and percussion *Homenaje a Eliot, open work for voices, concrète sounds and music theatre actions, both in 1965 *Colores y masas, concrète music for paintings by José De Monte, in 1966 *Estudio sobre mi voz for tape, 1967 *Estudio sobre mi voz