Alejandro Núñez Allauca

Alejandro Núñez Allauca ( born April 18, 1943 in Moquegua, Peru ) is a Peruvian composer.

Núñez Allauca already performed with nine years as accordion soloist. He received a first training in 1955 with Manuel Guerra Cabrera, the organist of the Cathedral of Lima. In 1961 he won the Peruvian Accordion Competition.

He studied from 1961 to 1966 cello at the Conservatory in Lima and completed his training at Andrés Sas Orchassal (harmony and counterpoint ) and in Buenos Aires with Francisco Kröpfl, Gabriel Brnčić and Gerardo Gandini. From 1972 to 1973 he lived in the U.S., where he gave accordion concerts. He is a freelance composer in Lima.

Núñez Allauca developed a "Ornament theory " (La composición musical ornamental, 1978), are connected contrapuntal and harmonic according to the same or dissimilar ornaments.

Works

• El Alba for mixed choir, 1965
• Koribeni Suite 1967
• Moto ornamental e perpetuo for piano, 1970
• Oh, mi seilor for mixed chorus and piano, 1972 Premiere: Westminster Tabernacle Choir of Detroit, 1973
• String Quartet, 1975-76, 2nd Prize of the Latin American Composers' Competition of Santiago de Chile, 1979
• Huatyacuri, ballet music, 1982
• Concierto ornamental for Piano and Orchestra, world premiere 1982
• Rapsodia and Serenata for Harp, 1988
• Aleluya del Alba for tenor solo, mixed choir and orchestra, 1989, premiere in 1992 in Chisinau (Moldova )
• Wiesbaden Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, world premiere in 1994 in Chisinau (Moldova )
• Sonrisa de Jesús, first performance at the Christmas concert in the Vatican in 1995
• El Hijo del Sol, premiere 1997
• Flor de Nieve for vocal duet and orchestra, premiere 1997
• Missa Andina for soloists, choir, organ and orchestra, 1997-98
• La montaña de Luz for vocal trio and orchestra, 1998
• Variables for six instruments and tape
• Sinfonía ornamental
• Psalm 100 for four voices and eight-voice choir
• Diferencials I and II for Piano diferenciales
• Gravitación humana for tape
• Koribeni para guitarra sola