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Irma Urteaga

Irma Urteaga (March 7, 1929 – February 14, 2022) was a composer and pianist from Argentina. Biography Irma Urteaga was born in San Nicholas, Buenos Aires. She began her studies in Paraná (Entre Ríos)

Irma Urteaga (March 7, 1929 – February 14, 2022) was a composer and pianist from Argentina. Biography Irma Urteaga was born in San Nicholas, Buenos Aires. She began her studies in Paraná (Entre Ríos) and continued in Buenos Aires with Lucrecia María Madariaga Gilardi, Josefa Hernandorena and Jorge Fanelli for piano and Beatriz Gilardo Henandorena y Gilardi for harmony. She graduated in piano in 1959, and continued studying at the same school, graduating in composition in 1971. Her teachers for composition were Roberto Caamaño and Valdo Sciammarella, for instrumentation was Roberto García Morillo, and for history and aesthetics, Carlos Sufern and Alicia Terzian. After ending her studies, Urteaga performed as a concert musician and taught harmony at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo and operatic repertoire, vocal negotiation analysis and opera at the Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón. She was Columbus Theatre International Master (1974–1977) and director of an Opera Workshop in 1984. She was hired by the Opera Foundation of Ecuador to organize the lyrics for performances in Quito, Guayaquil and Cuenca from 1986-1988. Urteaga has been the recipient o

Era
Post-War
Lived
1929–2022
From
Argentina
Born in
San Nicolás de los Arroyos · died Buenos Aires
Known as
composer, pianist, music educator
Instruments
piano

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.