Alfredo Rugeles

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Alfredo Rugeles

Alfredo Rugeles (born December 13, 1949 in Washington, DC ) is a Venezuelan composer and conductor.

Rugeles studied at the Escuela Juan Manuel Olivares with Fedora Alemán and Alberto Grau and was a composition student of Yannis Ioannidis . From 1976 to 1981 he studied with Günther Becker and Wolfgang Trommer at the Robert Schumann Institute in Düsseldorf as a scholarship holder of the National Music Council of Venezuela (CONAC) . Finally, he took conducting courses with Sergiu Celibidache , Michel Tabachnik and Franco Ferrara .

He worked as a guest conductor with major European and Latin American orchestras and directed the Orquesta Sinfónica Municipal de Caracas from 1982 to 1987 and the Teatro Teresa Carreño from 1987 to 1990 . He is musical director of the Ensemble Nova Música and the Orquesta de Cámara de Venezuela and artistic director of the Circuito Sinfónico Latinoamericano Simón Bolívar . Since 1991 he has been the artistic director of the Festivales Latinoamericanos de Música in Caracas .

He also teaches contemporary composition and orchestral conducting at the Instituto Universitario de Estudios Musicales (IUDEM) and orchestral conducting at the Universidad Simón Bolívar . Since 1999 he has been President of the Sociedad Venezolana de Música Contemporánea .

Works

  • Pequeña Suite for piano, 1972–1973
  • Mutaciones for nonet and string orchestra, 1974
  • Polución for violin, viola, cello and piano, 1975
  • La Guitarra for mixed choir (text: Manuel Felipe Rugeles ), 1976
  • Canto a la Paz for mixed choir (text: Manuel Felipe Rugeles), 1976
  • Inventio for clarinet, 1976
  • Puntos y Líneas for fifteen instruments, 1977
  • Thingsphonia , electroacoustic music, 1978
  • Somosnueve for chamber ensemble, 1978/79
  • Camino entre lo sutil e inerrante for orchestra, 1979
  • El Ocaso del Héroe for speaker, mixed choir and chamber orchestra (text: Manuel Felipe Rugeles), 1982
  • Inventio for cello, 1983
  • Tanguitis for piano, 1984
  • Sinfonola for chamber orchestra, 1988
  • Hace veinte años (Homenaje a Los Beatles) for tape and synthesizer, 1988
  • Oración para clamar por los oprimidos for chamber ensemble, 1989
  • Lady Aoi , electronic music based on Yukio Mishima , 1990
  • Juglares del Video for orchestra, 1991
  • Judenatru , electroacoustic composition, 1996

literature

  • Martha Furman Schleifer, Gary Galván: Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary. 3. Edition. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 2016, ISBN 978-0-8108-8871-5 , pp. 545 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).

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personal data
SURNAME Rugeles, Alfredo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venezuelan composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC