Carlos Botto Vallarino
Carlos Botto Vallarino (born November 4, 1923 in Viña del Mar , † June 27, 2004 in Santiago de Chile ) was a Chilean composer and music teacher.
Botto studied from 1936 at the Academia Valparaíso and from 1948 to 1953 at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música piano with Herminia Raccagni and composition with Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt , Domingo Santa Cruz and Juan Orrego-Salas . With a Guggenheim scholarship he was a student of Luigi Dallapiccola at the Juilliard School of Music in New York from 1956 to 1957 .
From 1961 to 1968 Botto was director of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música , and from 1961 to 1974 he was president of the Juventudes Musicales de Chile . From 1969 to 1980 he taught as a professor of piano at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile from 1968 to 1970 and 1990 to 1996 at the Escuela Moderna de Música .
Botto received honorary diplomas from the cities of Valparaíso (1975) and Viña del Mar (1992). In 1993 he received the Charles Ives Prize from the Instituto Chileno-Norteamericano de Cultura , and in 1996 he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Arte .
Works
- Variaciones for piano
- Diez preludios for piano
- Cuarteto
- Tres caprichos
- partita
- scherzo
- Sonata , dedicated to his student Alfredo Perl
- Sonata N ° 2 , dedicated to his pupil María Iris Radrigán
- Doce canciones based on texts by Lope de Vega
- Cuatro cantares quechuas
- Poemas de amor y soledad , cycle based on texts by James Joyce for voice and piano
- Siete cantos al amor ya la muerte for tenor and string quartet
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Botto Vallarino, Carlos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Botto, Carlos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean composer and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Viña del Mar |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 27, 2004 |
| Place of death | Santiago de Chile |