Iris Sanguesa Explained

Iris Sanguesa de Ichasso (née Sanguesa Hinostroza) (born March 3, 1933), known as Iris Sangüesa, is a Chilean composer, pianist and percussionist defined as the first composer in electronic music in her country.^{[1] [2]}

Biography

Sanguesa was born in Osorno, Chile. She graduated from the Chilean National Conservatory in Santiago in 1959 and received a fellowship to study at the Torcuato Di Tella Institute’s CLAEM (Centro Latinamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales) in Buenos Aires from 1967 to 1968, becoming one of the first women to study at the prestigious institution.

At CLAEM, she composed several multimedia pieces^{[3] [4] [5] [6]} and her teachers included Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, German Berner, Jorge Canelo, Augustin Cullel, Alberto Ginastera, Flora Guerra, and Herminia Raccagni.^{[7] [8] [9]}

Sanguesa lived in Argentina from 1985 to 2001, before returning to Chile wehre she taught at various institutions in Santiago.

In 2024,the Department of Music at the University of Chile paid tribute to her as "the first Chilean composer in electronic music."

Main compositions

Ballet

• Copahue, on an Auracanian Legend
• Los Trabajos del Bailarin

Chamber

• Quartet (percussion)
• Quartet (wind instruments)
• Quintet for Winds^[10]
• Sonata (double bass and piano)
• Sonata (flute and piano)
• Sonata (harp)

Multimedia

• Intergracion (tape, dancer, and color projections)
• Llaman las llamas (synthesizer, piano, voice, narrator, double bass and percussion; text by Marcos Llona)
• Oda a la Humanidad (six voices, mixed choir, orchestra and tape)
• Permanencia I (tape)
• Permanencia II-Espiral (tape)

Orchestra

• Abastractas
• Aforismos del Bhagavad Gita
• Estudios Orquestrales
• Sincresis
• Transiciones

Piano

• Canción Araucana
• El Pianista Chileno (for children)
• Mariposas
• Pieces for Children
• Variations

Vocal

• “Hymn for Liceo Gabriela Mistral"
• “Hymn for Liceo Manuel de Salas”
• “Hymn for the Swiss College”

External links

• Listen to works by Iris Sanguesa

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2024-10-29 . Homenaje a primera compositora chilena en música electrónica . Tribute to the First Chilean Composer in Electronic Music . 2024-10-30 . El Mostrador . es.
2. Web site: 2024-10-24 . Departamento de Música rinde homenaje a la precursora Iris Sangüesa - Facultad de Artes - Universidad de Chile . Department of Music Pays Tribute to Pioneer Composer Iris Sangüesa . 2024-10-30 . University of Chile . es.
3. Book: Cohen, Aaron I. . International encyclopedia of women composers. 2: Sai - Zyb, Appendices . 1987 . Books & Music . 978-0-9617485-1-7 . 2. ed., revised and enl . New York . 615–616.
4. Web site: SANGUESA, Iris . 2023-07-20 . Donne, Women in Music . en-GB.
5. Book: Hall, Lawton . The Meanings of Musics and Technologies in the Twentieth Century: Case Studies in Postwar Pop, Afrofuturist Jazz, and Chilean Electronic Music (thesis) . University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee . 2023 . Milwaukee . 93, 97.
6. Book: Epstein, Louis . Open Access Musicology: Volume Two . 2023-07-11 . University of Michigan Press . 978-1-64315-049-9 . en.
7. Book: Dal Farra, Ricardo L. . A Journey of Sound Through the Electroacoustic Wires Art and New Technologies in Latin America (thesis) . University of Quebec at Montreal . 2006 . Montreal . 207.
8. Book: Ficher . Miguel . Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary . Schleifer . Martha Furman . Furman . John M. . 2002-10-16 . Scarecrow Press . 978-1-4616-6911-1 . en.
9. Book: Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog . 1988-10-19 . ABC-CLIO . 978-0-313-26019-3 . en.
10. Web site: wind quintet Iris Sanguesa . 2023-07-20 . www.linfoulk.org.