Roque Cordero

Roque Cordero ( born August 16, 1917 in Panama City, † December 27, 2008 in Dayton, Ohio, United States) was a Panamanian composer.

Cordero studied with Máximo Arrates Boza, Pedro Rebolledo, Herbert de Castro and Myron Schaeffer and then went to the USA where he student of Ernst Krenek, then by Dimitri Mitropoulos, Stanley Chapple, and Leon Barzin was first. Since 1938 he conducted the Symphony Orchestra of Panama newly established. From 1950 to 1966 he was professor of composition at the Instituto Nacional de Música. From 1969 he taught composition at the Latin American Music Center at Indiana University. Since 1970 he has served as music advisor to the Southern Music Publishing Company.

He composed three symphonies among others, a rhapsody, a piano and a violin concerto, a ballet music, chamber music, piano works and choral pieces.

  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • University teachers ( Bloomington, Indiana)
  • Panamanian composer
  • Born 1917
  • Died in 2008
  • Man
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