Iris Sanguesa
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:
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
- Abastractas[1]
- Aforismos del Bhagavad Gita[1]
- Estudios Orquestrales[1]
- Sincresis[1]
- Transiciones[1]
Piano
- Canción Araucana[10]
- El Pianista Chileno (for children)[1]
- Mariposas[10]
- Pieces for Children[1]
- Variations[1]
Vocal
- “Hymn for Liceo Gabriela Mistra”l[1]
- “Hymn for Liceo Manuel de Salas”[1]
- “Hymn for the Swiss College”[1]
References
- 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.
- "SANGUESA, Iris". Donne, Women in Music. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
- 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.
- Epstein, Louis (2023-07-11). Open Access Musicology: Volume Two. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-1-64315-049-9.
- 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.
- 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.
- Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog. ABC-CLIO. 1988-10-19. ISBN 978-0-313-26019-3.
- Chilenas en la Música: Iris Sangüesa, retrieved 2023-07-20
- "wind quintet | Iris Sanguesa". www.linfoulk.org. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
- Chilenas al piano: Episodio Nº1, retrieved 2023-07-20