Graciela Paraskevaidis

Graciela Paraskevaidis ( born April 1, 1940 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine composer and musicologist of Greek descent.

Training

Paraskevaidis studied composition at Roberto García Morillo at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Buenos Aires. A grant from the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales ( CLAEM ) enabled her 1965-66 attending courses of Gerardo Gandini and Iannis Xenakis at the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella.

At the invitation of the German Academic Exchange Service ( DAAD) she continued her education from 1968 to 1971 continues with Wolfgang Fortner at the Musikhochschule Freiburg. In 1972 she took part in the Darmstadt Summer Courses. 1984-85 she was a guest of the DAAD Berlin Artists Programme.

Career

Since 1975 Paraskevaidis lives in Uruguay. She taught from 1985 to 1992 at the Universidad Nacional in Montevideo and gave courses, seminars and workshops in several countries of Latin America and Europe. Since 1975, she published essays mainly about contemporary Latin American music, among other things in the Mexican magazine Pauta, the Revista Musical Chilena and the magazine music lyrics. She wrote two books ( about the composer Eduardo and Luis Fabini Campodónico ), was from 1990 to 1999 co-editor of the World New Music Magazine and since 1992 has been assistant at Walter Wolfgang Sparrers lexicon composers.

From 1975 to 1979 Paraskevaidis was one of the organizers of the Cursos Latinoamericanos de Música Contemporánea ( CLAMC ). She is a member of the Núcleo Música Nueva de Montevideo and the Sociedad de Música Contemporánea Uruguaya.

Awards

For her compositions, she was awarded, among other prizes from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes and the municipalidad de Buenos Aires, the Academy of Arts in Berlin and the Juventudes Musicales of Uruguay. In 1994 she was awarded the Goethe Medal of the Goethe Institute Munich.

Works

  • Magma I for four horns, two trumpets, two trombones and tuba, 1965-67
  • Magma II for four trombones, 1968
  • La terra e la morte (Text by Cesare Pavese ) for mixed choir, 1968
  • Seis canciones españolas (Text by Miguel Hernández ) for soprano and piano, 1968
  • " libertà cercando va ... " ( text by Dante Alighieri ) for mixed choir, 1969
  • E Desidero solo colori ( text by Cesare Pavese ) for female chorus, 1969
  • Trio for Flute, Clarinet and Bassoon, 1969
  • Aphorisms ( on texts by Karl Kraus ) for two speakers, piano, percussion and tape, 1969,
  • Mellonta tauta for accordion, 1970
  • The hand full of hours ( text by Paul Celan ) for nine voices, 1970
  • Shadows (Text by Karl Kraus ) for soprano and baritone, 1970
  • Mozart ( on texts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) for actors and ensemble, 1970-72
  • Schattenreich ( Text by Hans Magnus Enzensberger ) for four voices, 1972
  • The path ( text from the Old Testament) for nine voices and wind ensemble, 1973
  • Magma III for flute, trombone, cello and piano, 1974
  • Magma IV for string quartet, 1974
  • Huauqui for tape, 1975
  • Magma V for four Kena, 1977
  • A enteral revisación del público en general for tape, 1978-81
  • Todavía no for three flutes and three clarinets, 1979
  • Magma VI for two trumpets and two trombones, 1979
  • Más tiene fuerza for clarinet, 1984
  • Magma VII for fourteen winds, 1984
  • Un lado, otro lado for piano, 1984
  • Tres piezas infantiles for piano, 1986
  • El grito en el cielo for mixed choir, 1987
  • Dos piezas para pequeño conjunto for oboe, clarinet, trumpet, piano and claves, 1989
  • Sendas for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone and piano, 1992
  • El nervio de arnold for Guitar, 1992
  • " algún sonido de la vida " for two oboes, 1993
  • Nada for soprano, 1993
  • Ta for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet and Piano, 1994
  • Pero están for soprano, flute and oboe, 1994
  • Otra vez for piano, 1994
  • No quiero más oír ya Campanas for fourteen brass, 1995
  • Dos piezas para oboe y piano, 1995
  • Hacen así for six percussionists, 1996
  • Altibajos for two double basses, 1996
  • En abril for piano, 1996
  • Libres en el sonido en el sonido Presos for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano, 1997
  • Suono sogno for Violin, 1997
  • A del ... hombros ruiseñor for piano, 1997
  • Contra la olvidación for piano, 1998
  • Solos for alto flute and guitar, 1998
  • Discordia for nine voices, 1998
  • Piezas de bolsillo for four percussionists, 1999
  • Dos piezas para piano, 2001
  • Il silenzio ... remoto for Cello, 2002
  • "Soy de un país donde " for horn, trumpet, trombone and tuba, 2002
  • ¿Y si fuera cierto? for alto flute, horn and piano, 2003
  • Aruaru for mezzo soprano, clarinet, violin, cello and piano, 2003
  • Y allá Andara según se dice for 24 players, 2004
  • Tris for oboe, bassoon and double bass, 2005
  • ático, 2006
  • Réplica for Harpsichord, 2006

Writings

  • La obra Sinfónica de Eduardo Fabini (1992 )
  • Luis Campodónico, compositor (1999)
  • Argentine composer
  • Born in 1940
  • Woman
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