Pozzi Escot

( Olga ) Pozzi Escot ( born October 1, 1933, Lima, Peru) is an American composer.

Escot studied from 1954 to 1957 at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City and then to 1960. At the Musikhochschule Hamburg Philipp Jarnach, William Bergsma and Andrés Sas Orchassal She was guest composer at the Music Center at Tanglewood / Massachusetts and directed the concert series New Event Ensemble in Boston and Space, Time and Sound.

She was a professor at Wheaton College and the New England Conservatory, President of the International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies, director of the Tufts University Talloires International Composers Conference and since 1980 chief editor of the journal Sonus. Escot wrote several music-theoretical writings, including Sonic Design: The Nature of Sound and Music ( with Robert Cogan ) and composed works mainly in chamber music ensembles and several piano pieces.

Works

  • Three Poems of Rilke for string quartet and speaker
  • Lamentus ( Trilogy for the 6 million nr. 1 obviously the Jewish Nazi victims ) for soprano, two violins, two cellos, piano and drums three
  • Christos ( Trilogy nr. 2) for alto flute, contrabassoon, drums and three violins
  • Visione for double bass, flute, alto saxophone, soprano, percussion and speaker
  • Three Movements for Piano and Violin
  • Sands ( Symphony no. 5)
  • Fergus Are for Organ
  • Missa Triste for female choir and three instruments

Writings

  • Sonic Design: The Nature of Sound and Music
  • The Poetics of Simple Mathematics in Music
  • Oh How Wondrous: Hildegard of Bingen, Ten Essays
  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • University teachers (New England Conservatory )
  • American composer
  • Born in 1933
  • Woman
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