Alicia Urreta (12 October 1930 – 20 December 1986) was a Mexican pianist, music educator and composer.
Biography
Alicia Urreta was born in Veracruz, Veracruz. In 1952 she entered the Conservatorio National de Musica in Mexico City, studying harmony with Rodolfo Halffter, and other topics under Hernandez Moncada. After 1957 she worked as a concert pianist and taught at the University of Mexico.[1]
Urreta established the National Symphony Orchestra (1975), was the general Coordinator of the National Opera Company of INBA. music coordinator of the Casa del Lago, musical performances director of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and founder of the Camerata of Mexico.[2] She died in Mexico City in 1987.
Works
Urreta composed, among other works, a chamber opera, five ballets, pieces for solo instruments, a cantata, incidental music, a musique concrète composition for Noh theater and film scores[3][4].
Stage
- Cubos ballet
- Luiz negra ballet
- Mujer flor ballet
- Un dia de Luis ballet with electronics
- Tantraballet with music concrete
- Cante, homenaje a Manuel de Falla for actors, singers, three dancers, slides, percussion and tape, 1976
- Romance do Doña Balada Opera, 1973
Orchestral
- Ralenti for tape, 1969
- Piano Concerto
Chamber
- Homage for string quartet
- Arcana amplified piano
- Estudio sobre una guitarra for tape
- Salmodia II for piano and tape, 1980
- De Natura mortis o la Verdadera historia de Caperucita Roja for narrator, instruments, and tape, 1971
- Selva de Pajaros for tape, 1978
- Dameros II for tape, 1984
- Dameros III for tape, 1985
References
- ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Rhian, Samuel. The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). p. 467. Retrieved 27 September 2010.
- ^ "Urreta Alicia Arroyo". Retrieved 27 September 2010.
- ^ International Encyclopedia of Women Composers, by Aaron I. Cohen, Second ed., vol.2, Books and Music, 1987, pp. 711–712
- ^ Latin American Classical Composers: a Biographical Dictionary – Third Edition, by Martha Furman. Schleifer, Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, p. 634