Iris_Sanguesa

Iris Sanguesa

Iris Sanguesa

Chilean composer, pianist and percussionist

Iris Sanguesa de Ichasso (born 1933) is a Chilean composer, pianist and percussionist. She was one of the first women to study at the Torcuato Di Tella Institute’s Centro Latinamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (CLAEM) , where she composed several multimedia pieces. She is known professionally as Iris Sanguesa.[1][2][3][4]

Sanguesa was born in Osorno, Chile. She graduated from the Chilean National Conservatory in Santiago in 1959, and received a fellowship to study at the CLAEM in Buenos Aires in 1967-68. Her teachers included Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, German Berner, Jorge Canelo, Augustin Cullel, Alberto Ginastera, Flora Guerra, and Herminia Raccagni.[1][5][6][7][4]

Sanguesa taught at several venues in Santiago. She lived in Argentina from 1985 to 2001, then returned to Chile.[5][8] Her compositions include:

Ballet

  • Copahue, on an Auracanian Legend[1]
  • Los Trabajos del Bailarin[1]

Chamber

  • Quartet (percussion)[1]
  • Quartet (wind instruments)[1]
  • Quintet for Winds[9]
  • Sonata (double bass and piano)[1]
  • Sonata (flute and piano)[7]
  • Sonata (harp)[1]

Multimedia

  • Intergracion (tape, dancer, and color projections)[3]
  • Llaman las llamas (synthesizer, piano, voice, narrator, double bass and percussion; text by Marcos Llona)[5]
  • Oda a la Humanidad (six voices, mixed choir, orchestra and tape)[5]
  • Permanencia I (tape)[5]
  • Permanencia II-Espiral (tape)[5]

Orchestra

  • Aforismos del Bhagavad Gita[1]
  • Estudios Orquestrales[1]
  • Transiciones[1]

Piano

  • Canción Araucana[10]
  • El Pianista Chileno (for children)[1]
  • Pieces for Children[1]

Vocal

  • “Hymn for Liceo Manuel de Salas”[1]
  • “Hymn for the Swiss College”[1]



References

  1. [1]
    Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers. 2: Sai - Zyb, Appendices (2. ed., revised and enl ed.). New York: Books & Music. pp. 615–616. ISBN 978-0-9617485-1-7.
  2. [2]
    "SANGUESA, Iris". Donne, Women in Music. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
  3. [3]
    Hall, Lawton (2023). The Meanings of Musics and Technologies in the Twentieth Century: Case Studies in Postwar Pop, Afrofuturist Jazz, and Chilean Electronic Music (thesis). Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. pp. 93, 97.
  4. [4]
    Epstein, Louis (2023-07-11). Open Access Musicology: Volume Two. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-1-64315-049-9.
  5. [5]
    Dal Farra, Ricardo L. (2006). A Journey of Sound Through the Electroacoustic Wires Art and New Technologies in Latin America (thesis). Montreal: University of Quebec at Montreal. p. 207.
  6. [6]
    Ficher, Miguel; Schleifer, Martha Furman; Furman, John M. (2002-10-16). Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1-4616-6911-1.
  7. [7]
    Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog. ABC-CLIO. 1988-10-19. ISBN 978-0-313-26019-3.
  8. [8]
    Chilenas en la Música: Iris Sangüesa, retrieved 2023-07-20
  9. [9]
    "wind quintet | Iris Sanguesa". www.linfoulk.org. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
  10. [10]
    Chilenas al piano: Episodio Nº1, retrieved 2023-07-20
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