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Alejandro Núñez Allauca

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Alejandro Núñez Allauca (born April 18, 1943) is a Peruvian composer and accordionist who performed outside of his native country. Biography He was born in Moquegua, Peru on April 18, 1943, and first performed on the radio in Cerro de Pasco as a soloist on accordion at the age of nine. His style was initially tonal, then moved toward pointillistic atonalism. Later, his work began to include ornamentation in a neo-Baroque style. His works exhibit a personal nationalism, incorporating elements of traditional Andean music as well as echoes of neo-Romanticism. Works *Suite Koribeni for orchestra. *Fisuras for two flutes. *Salmo 100 for chorus. *Trío para vientos (flute, oboe, bassoon). *Salmo 100 for 8 soloists. *Gravitación humana for magnetic tape. *String quartet. *El alba for chorus (1965). *Diferenciales I y II for piano (1967). *Variables for 6 and magnetic tape (1967). *Cuarteto de cuerda nº 1 (1970). *Concierto para orquesta (1970). *Moto ornamentale e perpetuo for piano (1970). *Sinfonía ornamental (1972). *Ornamenti per 3 flauti e pianoforto Op. 3 (1973-7). *Invention I, II, III and IV for orchestra (1978). *Ornamentos for piano (1979). *Movimiento ornamental for guitar (1980

Claudio Constantini

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Claudio Constantini is a multiinstrumentalist (pianist, bandoneonist) and composer born in Peru and currently living in Spain. Known for his eclectic nature, he feels at home in a variety of musical genres. He has garnered one of the widest followings on social media for a classical instrumentalist. Biography Claudio Constantini is a performer of two instruments, the piano and the bandoneón, as well as being a composer. Born and raised in Lima (Peru) into a musician’s family, Constantini’s unique style is defined by its solid classical roots paired with a passion for popular music genres, among which Latin American music and improvisation play a key role. He has performed worldwide in top venues, such as Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, The Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna’s Musikverein, The Los Angeles Opera house, among many others. He has released numerous albums as soloist or leader and has collaborated in dozens of productions for various artists. He was nominated for a Latin Grammy in 2019 for his album AMERICA with piano music of George Gershwin and Astor Piazzolla in the “Best Classical Album” category. He initiated his piano studies with his father (Gerardo Constantini) and later rec

Clotilde Arias

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Clotilde Arias Chávarri Anduaga de Ferrero (20 June 1901 – 6 May 1959) was a Peruvian-American composer and lyricist. She is best known for her composition of the song “Huiracocha”, popular in Peru and sung worldwide; and for her translation of “The Star-Spangled Banner”, the United States national anthem, into lyrical Spanish, commissioned by the U.S. Department of State in 1946. Arias was also an integral part of the Pan-American movement during the 1940s, as well as an advocate for Spanish-language education in the United States. Life Arias was born in 1901 in Iquitos, Peru, on the shores of the Amazon. She spent many of her early years in Barbados, where she attended elementary school. She began writing and composing songs during her teenage years. Arias’s artistic talents in music, painting, and composing including playing for silent movies emerged early in Iquitos. She achieved scholastic and artistic recognition, with numerous honors. Her perfect pitch and exceptional ability to sight read made her a highly sought accompanist. Throughout Peruvian history, the Charango was a common instrument of their culture. While Arias focused on composing, she also mastered this instrumen

Daniel Alomía Robles

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Daniel Alomía Robles (3 January 1871 – 17 July 1942) was a Peruvian composer and ethnomusicologist. He is best known for composing the song “El Cóndor Pasa” in 1913 as part of a zarzuela — a musical play that alternates between spoken and sung parts — of the same name. This song was based on Andean folk songs and is possibly the best known Peruvian song, partly due to the worldwide success that the melody obtained when it was used by Simon & Garfunkel as their music for “El Cóndor Pasa (If I Could)”, although that song has different lyrics. Early life Daniel Alomía Robles was born in Huánuco, Peru, on January 3, 1871 to Micaela Robles and Marcial Alomía, a French immigrant. It was while living with an uncle in Lima at the age of 12 that Alomía Robles first heard musical theatre. In an interview in 1942 with Esteban Pavletich Trujillo, Alomía Robles credited his wife as the impetus for creating his first musical works. In 1910, Alomía Robles published his discovery that the musical structure of Andean music involved a Pentatonic scale. “El Cóndor Pasa” In 1913, Daniel Alomía Robles composed “El Cóndor Pasa”, and the composition was first performed publicly at the Teatro Mazzi in Lim

Enrique Iturriaga

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Enrique Iturriaga Romero (April 3, 1918 – November 23, 2019) was a Peruvian composer and educator. Biography Enrique Iturriaga Romero was born in Lima, Peru, in 1918 and spent most of his childhood in Huacho, a small port city north of the Peruvian capital. As a child, Iturriaga did not receive any formal musical training, but music was always present in the Iturriaga family house. His grandmother and older cousins often played the piano during family gatherings, arousing Enrique’s interest in music from an early age, and was also encouraged by his father to play the piano. The young Iturriaga was naturally involved in music and enjoyed improvising on the piano; He also learned to play popular music like Peruvian waltz, marinera, tango, jazz, all by ear. Peruvian popular music not only played an important role in the development of Iturriaga’s childhood, but also later shaped his musical creativity. In the coastal regions of Peru where he grew up, the most common type of popular music during the first half of the twentieth century was música criolla. Although Iturriaga’s exposure to music in his early years was predominantly that of popular idioms, the family’s Victrola gramophone

Felipe Pinglo Alva

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Felipe Pinglo Alva (July 18, 1899 - May 13, 1936), known as the father of Peruvian Musica criolla and nicknamed the “Immortal Bard” or (“Bardo Inmortal” in Spanish), was an influential and prolific poet and songwriter best known for his often covered “El Plebeyo” (The Commoner). In Peru and Latin America, Pinglo’s name is most often associated with the Peruvian vals criollo, which is a uniquely Peruvian music, characterized by the 3/4 time, elaborate guitar work and lyrics about lost love or the Lima of yesteryear. Biography Felipe Pinglo Alva was born in one of the oldest sections of Lima (Barrios Altos), known as an historical district with a working class population, to a schoolteacher and his wife on July 18, 1899. Felipe’s mother died when he was still a child. The poverty in which young Felipe was raised as well as the instruction received by his father and aunts created a young mind that was both learned and socially conscious. During his lifetime, Pinglo was known as a Bohemian, sickly and frail, and walking with a slight limp. A naturally talented musician, Pinglo earned money as a youth by replaying songs he had heard the local military bands playing by ear in the central

Jaime Cuadra

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Jaime Cuadra is a Peruvian singer, composer, music producer, and filmmaker who is known for a number of achievements, including: Music production: Cuadra produced three songs for the 2008 James Bond film Quantum of Solace. He also released the Latin jazz album Latino in 2009, which won two gold and one platinum record. Cuadra have 12 albums. Filmmaking: Cuadra directed many video projects with his video production company and composed music for movies, short films and radio and TV advertising. Cultural ambassador: Cuadra is a Peruvian Cultural Ambassador (Marca Perú). CEO: Cuadra is the CEO of Quadra Audiovisuals in Florida. Awards: Cuadra received several awards for recognition of his music career like Independent Music Awards of NY, FIAP Awards,Grand APAP, APDAYC Awards, Gold Tumi Awards, U.S.A. Congressional recognition, etc. Background: Cuadra has a background as a rock musician, Electrónica and Jazz. In his early albums combined Latin-Pop with Afro-Peruvian music. Biography He went to school at Colegio San Agustín in Lima. He began his career very young in the music industry with his father’s recording studio in 1985 as an audio engineer. In 1986, he studied music with Victor

José Bernardo Alzedo

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José Bernardo Alzedo (August 20, 1788 – December 28, 1878) was a Peruvian composer. Alzedo was born in Lima, Peru. He studied music at the Convento de San Agustín, and composed Misa en Re Mayor (Mass Hymn in D Major) when he was 18 years old. In 1806, he became a Dominican friar; his behaviour was considered lax by the fellow members of that religious order. Alzedo was the winner of an 1821 contest sponsored by General José de San Martín to choose a national anthem for Peru, being his winning opus called Somos libres, seámoslo siempre (“We are free; so shall we ever be”), with lyrics by José de la Torre Ugarte. In 1822, Alzedo went to Chile as a soldier in a military band. In Santiago, he left the military and dedicated himself to music. He joined the choir of the Cathedral of Santiago in 1833. In 1846, he became kapellmeister. He resided in Chile for 42 years, returning to Peru in 1864. He became director of the Peruvian military band, and president of the Philharmonic. He spent the last years of his life in Peru, and wrote the book Filosofía Elemental de la Música (Elementary Philosophy of Music) in 1869, in which he discourses upon Quechuan music. He composed folk songs, numerous r

Mariano Bolognesi

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Mariano Andrés Bolognesi y Cervantes ( Boloñese; — ) was a Peruvian colonel, educator and composer. He was the son of composer Andrés Bolognesi and a younger brother of colonel Francisco Bolognesi. Biography Bolognesi was born in Arequipa on , being baptised at the El Sagrario Parish on the same day. It is likely that he and Francisco participated in the Liberal Revolution of 1854, as he was ascended to Lieutenant colonel in 1855, following the Battle of La Palma. See also * Francisco Bolognesi References

Pedro Espinel Torres

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Pedro Espinel Torres (August 1, 1908 – November 8, 1981 in Lima) was a Peruvian composer of música criolla. He is best known for his piece El Rey de las Polkas. Life Espinel worked in various jobs — messenger, printing apprentice and worker in a wood warehouse — while cultivating his passion for music. He formed small musical groups with guitar and castañuelas, with which they softened bar meetings and fiestas, gaining the love of the Limeño public. In 1925 he became a member of the conductor Felipe Pinglo Alva, considered the “Padre de la Canción Criolla”. This friendship gave rise to a deep admiration and a great musical influence that marked his style. Espinel learned from Pinglo the art of combining popular poetry with Creole melody, which led him to develop his own style. Musical works Throughout his career, Pedro Espinel composed more than 300 songs, covering genres such as waltzes, marineras and tonderos, however, it was with the música criolla that he reached his maximum splendor. References External links * Biographical video about the composer. * Biography of the singer and songwriter (Digital Peru)

Pozzi Escot

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Olga Pozzi-Escot Zapata (born 1 October 1933) is a Peruvian-born American composer, music theorist, and faculty member at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. Life Pozzi Escot was born in Lima, Peru. Her father, Marius Emmanuel Pozzi Escot, was a French professor at the University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru; her mother was Lucía María Zapata Hurtado. After living in Peru, she went to France. Back in Peru, between 1949 and 1953 she studied at the Academy of Music Sas-Rosay (Lima). At the end of 1953, she emigrated to the United States to attend Reed College in Portland, Oregon, becoming a citizen three years later. Between 1954 and 1957 she studied at the Juilliard School (in New York), where she graduated with a degree in composition (1956) She has written over thirty articles (mostly published in her own journal) developing and discussing the relationship between music and mathematics. Her works are recorded on Delos, Neuma, Spectrum, Leo, Music & Arts and Centaur labels and published by Publication Contact International. Pozzi Escot resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her partner, composer and theorist Robert Cogan (1930–2021). References External links *P

Sadiel Cuentas

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Sadiel Cuentas (born 17 September 1973) is a Peruvian composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Cuentas is a chamber and orchestral classical music composer. He studied composition in Peru’s National Conservatory with Enrique Iturriaga and Dante Valdéz. In 2006, his Cadenza, introducción y allegro was awarded an honorary mention in Peru National Conservatory’s 2006 composition contest. Via de la Croce was awarded an honorary mention in the Asociación Peruano China Choral Composition contest in 2007. His chamber opera, Post Mortem, premiered at the Spanish Cultural Center in 2012, and his musical, El Vigilante Enmascarado, was premiered in Larco Theater in October 2013. Cuentas has written four chamber operas and a musical with Peruvian librettist Martiza Núñez. His violin concerto, dedicated to the victims of the Internal conflict in Peru, was premiered in February 2014 by Peru’s National Orchestra with Carlos Johnson Herrera as soloist. In 2015, Peru’s Culture Ministry commissioned Tinkuy, a multilingual song cycle based on traditional Peruvian songs. Some songs from Tinkuy were premiered in Europe in Peru’s National Children Choir tour 2016. His work Tráfico was premier

Victoria Santa Cruz

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Victoria Eugenia Santa Cruz Gamarra (27 October 1922 – August 30, 2014) was an Afro-Peruvian choreographer, composer and activist. Victoria Santa Cruz would go on to be called “the mother of Afro Peruvian dance and theatre.” Along with her brother, Nicomedes Santa Cruz, she is credited as significant in a revival of Afro-Peruvian culture in the 1960s and 1970s. They both came from a long-line of artists and intellectuals. For her part she is said to have had “Afrocentrism” influences in her view of dance trying to discover “ancestral memory” of African forms. She helped to found the Cumanana company. Early life Santa Cruz was born eighth of ten children in Lima, Peru. Her younger brother Nicomedes Santa Cruz became a famous poet who she often performed with. At an early age, Victoria Santa Cruz was introduced to the fine arts, having come from a household full of black artists and musicians. One of her earliest influences were her parents whom she first learned about Afro-Peruvian dance (marinera and other criollo dances) as well as poetry and music. This early on exposure to the fine arts led Victoria Santa Cruz to create and participate in musicals like Malató, which would later