Sergio Barroso

Sergio Fernández Barroso (born March 4, 1946 in Havana ) is a Cuban - Canadian composer and music teacher .

Barrose attended the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana from 1950 to 1966 , where Alfredo Levi , César Pérez Sentenat , Edgardo Martín and Alfredo Díaz Nieto were among his teachers. He then studied composition with Václav Dobiáš , Alois Hába and Karel Janeček at the Prague Music Academy until 1968 , conducting with Manuel Duchesne and Gonzalo Romeu at the Universidad de La Habana and computer music with John Chowning and Jean-Claude Risset at Stanford University .

He then taught at the Conservatory, Music School and University of Havana. In addition, he was head of the music department of the National Library and the Ministry of Culture of Cuba and responsible for contemporary music at the Instituto Cubano de Radio y Televisión . From 1976 to 1980 he was general secretary of the Cuban section of the International Music Council of UNESCO .

In 1980 he moved to Canada, where he first taught at Trent University , from 1981 to 1984 at the University of Victoria and then at Simon Fraser University .

Barroso has been composing primarily electroacoustic music since 1969 , but he also wrote works for orchestra, chamber ensemble and choir as well as film music. His works have been performed internationally, including a. at the International Rostrum of Composers (1980 and 1995) and at the International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music (1990 and 1994) of UNESCO. He received a prize at the Bourges Electroacoustic Competition in 1980 , the New York Cintra / Arts International Composition Award in 1999 and the Victor M. Lynch-Staunton Award from the Canada Council for the Arts in 2000 .

Works

• El ángel desengañado for alto and piano (text by Rafael Alberti ), 1963
• Tres Canciones azules for soprano and piano (text by Rafael Alberti), 1963
• Tres Canciones grises for alto and piano (text by Federico García Lorca), 1963
• Grietas for soprano and piano (text by Xiomara Funes ), 1965
• Microsuite for piano, 1965
• Variaciones del Motoriongo for piano, 1966
• Música para pequeños oídos for piano, 1966
• Cuarteto de cuerdas , 1967
• Concierto for oboe and orchestra, 1967–68
• Oda al soldado muerto for large orchestra, 1968
• Concierto for piano, percussion, audience and tape, 1968
• Plásmasis , ballet for orchestra and tape, choreography by Alicia Alonso , 1970
• La casa de Bernarda Alba , ballet after Federico García Lorca for small orchestra, 1971–75
• Dinamia , ballet, for tape, 1972
• Concerto for String (s) and Four Sound Sources , 1972
• Yantra I for guitar and tape, 1972
• Yantra III for guitar and tape, 1972
• Noema II for voice, guitar, violin, double bass, piano and tape, 1972
• Yantra II for 14 wind instruments, 1973–74
• Yantra IV for flute (s) and tape, 1975
• Yantra V for guitar, 1975
• Ireme , ballet, for mezzo-soprano, percussion and tape, 1975
• Rumbos , for tapes and slide projections (by Sandú Darié ), 1975
• Neverland , dance music, for tape, 1976
• Yantra VI for piano and tape, 1976–79
• Yantra VII for large orchestra, 1977
• Yantra VIII for piano, 1978
• Yantra IX for soprano saxophone and tape, 1979
• Yantra X for bassoon and tape, 1981–82
• Las barricadas misteriosas for tape, 1982
• Quince Miradas a Don Quixote for two guitars, 1984
• Danzas coloniales cubanas for horn, two trumpets, trombone and tuba, 1984
• The Tempest incidental music for the piece by William Shakespeare for tape, 1984
• Tropical Sweet for string orchestra, 1986
• En febrero mueren las flores for violin and tape, 1987
• Soledad for tape, 1987
• Canzona for synthesizer and tape, 1988
• La fiesta for synthesizer and tape, 1989
• La fiesta grande for synthesizer and orchestra, 1990
• Tablao for guitar ad lib. and tape, 1991
• Crónicas de ultrasueño for oboe, synthesizer and tape, 1992
• Sonatada for synthesizer, 1992
• Charangas delirantes for synthesizers, 1993
• Jitanjáfora for violin and orchestra, 1993
• Viejas voces for viola and tape, 1993–94
• Crónicas II for viola and synthesizer, 1995
• Concerto for viola and orchestra, 1995–96
• Viola Desnuda , 1995-97
• La noche for bass clarinet, viola and tape, 1997
• Sandunga for viola and tape, 1997
• Cuartetas for bass clarinet, viola, piano and synthesizer, 1999
• Callejos for bass clarinet and tape, 1999
• Pregones for cello and tape, 2000
• Rocambole for violin, cello and tape, 2001
• Verdehalago for soprano, alto flute, violin, double bass and live electronics, 2004–06