Diego Luzuriaga

Diego Luzuriaga ( born 1955 in Loja ) is an Ecuadorian composer.

Luzuriaga studied at the École Normale de Musique in Paris, at the Manhattan School of Music and Columbia University in New York. Among his teachers were Gerardo Guevara, Yoshihisa Taira and Mesias Maiguashca.

Luzuriaga dealt in Ecuador with the research and recording of folk music from the Andes and Latin American music. He has received numerous Kompositionsaufträger international orchestras and ensembles, and in 1992 a Guggenheim Fellowship.

In addition to opera and orchestral works he composed works for chorus and orchestra, chamber music and songs.

Works

• Mademoiselle Satan for baritone and piano on a poem by Jorge Carrera Andrade, 1982
• Felipillo for orchestra, 1986
• Triciclo for Violin, Cello and Piano, 1986
• Brasilia for flute, percussion and synthesizer, 1986
• Ludus Spectralis for flute, marimba and percussion, 1986
• Flute Concerto, 1986-91
• Incienso for orchestra. 1988
• La Múchika, Five Pieces for Flute and Piano, 1988
• Concertino for Flute and COLORUM eleven instruments, 1990
• Tierra Tierra ... ... for two flutes, composition commissioned for Aurèle Nicolet and Robert Aitken, 1992
• Once Canciones for medium voice and guitar, 1998
• Liturgy for Shinobue and Orchestra, 2000
• Shaman for baritone and orchestra, 2001
• Pilgrimage a la Virgen del Cisne for choir and string orchestra, 2002
• Resurrección en Quito, multimedia work with spoken words, songs, radio theater, parades, church bells, drums and fireworks, 2003
• Quito Mitico, cantata, 2004
• Canticum Canticorum for choir and organ, 2004
• Manuela y Bolívar, opera, 2006
• Places of Ritmos y del Ecuador, Five Dances for Violin and Guitar, 2006