Mariano Etkin
Mariano Etkin ( born November 5, 1943 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine composer and music educator.
Etkin studied in Buenos Aires with David Epstein, Guillermo Graetzer and Julian Emilio Martini, then at the Juilliard School of Music in New York with Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez in Basel with, in Siena with Franco Ferrara and Alberto Ginastera at, Maurice Le Roux, Roger Sessions, Iannis Xenakis, Earle Brown and Mario Davidovsky. At the University of Utrecht in 1968-69, he took classes in electronic music with Gottfried Michael Koenig.
Since 1989, Etkin is a visiting professor at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. In 1991 he was Inauguralprofessor at the Simon Bolivar Chair of Composition in Caracas. Since 1992 he has also taught at the Darmstadt Summer Courses. Several times he taught as a visiting professor at McGill University in Canada composition and music theory. In addition he gave lectures, among others at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart ( 1989), the Musikhögskolan Stockholm, the Folkwang Music School in Essen, the University of Arts in Berlin (1997) and at the Conservatory of Music in Biel. He is currently professor of composition and music analysis at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
He composed mainly works for chamber orchestra and piano pieces, besides also acting and film scores. He has also written a large number of music theory and aesthetic essays for various magazines.
Works
- Tres piezas for piano, 1959
- Interludios for piano, 1959
- Variantes for Flute, 1960
- Quinteto aleatorio for wind quintet, 1961
- Tres parabolas for chamber ensemble, 1963
- Elipses for string orchestra, 1964
- Entropias for two horns, trumpet, two trombones and tuba, 1965
- Estáticamóvil I for two trumpets, harpsichord, harmonium, two percussionists and three double basses, 1966
- Homenaje a Filifor forrado de niño for two flutes, two clarinets and percussion, 1966
- Estáticamóvil II for Violin, Viola and Cello, 1966
- Soles for Flute, Horn and Bass, 1967
- Distancias for piano, 1968
- Juego uno for two trombones, 1969
- Muriendo entonces for horn, trombone, two percussionists, viola and double bass, 1969
- IRT -BMT for flute and double bass, 1970
- Dividido dos for accordion and tape, 1971
- Copla for Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon and Horn, 1971
- Música ritual for symphony orchestra, 1974
- Otros soles for bass clarinet, trombone and viola, 1976
- Umbral for flute and alto flute, 1976
- Lo uno y lo otro for piano, 1977
- Otros tiempos for string quartet or orchestra, 1978
- Paisaje for string orchestra, 1979
- Aquello for two pianos, 1982
- Frente a frente for flute, clarinet, voice, percussion and double bass, 1983
- Caminos de cornisa for flute, clarinet, piano and percussion, 1985
- Resplandores sombras for symphony orchestra, 1986
- Arenas (a la memoria de Morton Feldman ) for piano, 1988
- Caminos de Caminos for alto flute, bass clarinet, voice, piano and viola, 1989
- Perpetual tango for piano, 1989
- Locus solus for two percussionists, 1989
- Trío for Trumpet, Trombone and Tuba, 1991
- Cifuncho for Solo Violin, 1992
- Mambo swan song for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone and double bass, 1992
- Taltal for four percussionists, 1993
- La sangre del cuerpo for trombone, percussion, piano, cello and double bass, 1997
- Lo que nos va dejando for solo percussion, 1998
- De la indiferencia for bass clarinet, trombone, percussion, violin and cello, 1998
- Sotobosque for horn, flugelhorn, trombone, tuba and percussion, 1999
- La naturaleza de las cosas for clarinet, trombone, cello and piano, 2001
- Pobres triunfos pasajeros for piano, 2002
- Incidental music to: Les Patients by Jacques Audiberti
- L' armoire classique by Jacques Audiberti
- El señor fulano Ricardo Massa
- De alta mar Sławomir Mrozek
- La reconstrucción de la Opera de Viena by Mario Trejo
- La gallina radioactiva Rolando Malie
- Esa canción it un pájaro lastimado by Alberto needle Lach