Carlos Duarte (composer)

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Carlos Duarte (born June 1, 1957 in Caracas ; † April 13, 2003 ibid) was a Venezuelan composer and pianist .

Life

Duarte had his first piano lessons with Gerty Haas and first appeared in public at the age of eleven. Five years later he made his debut with a large orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfónica Venezuela , where he performed his composition Microcóm for piano and orchestra.

He continued his piano studies with Marek Jablonski in Montreal, Elizabeth Westerkampf in Buenos Aires, Jorge Bolet and Alfonso Montecino at Indiana University , Madeleine Malraux and Magda Tagliaferro in Paris and Maria Curcio in London.

Duarte has performed with internationally renowned orchestras. His repertoire included works by contemporary composers such as Alfred Schnittke , Andrzej Panufnik , Henryk Górecki , Aaron Copland , André Jolivet and Blas Emilio Atehortúa . In 1980 he was honored at the International Piano Competition in Munich, and in 1989 he was awarded the Venezuelan Music Critic Prize as a pianist.

He worked in Caracas as a professor at the Universidad Simón Bolívar and was a pianist at the Orquesta Sinfónica Municipal . In addition to piano works, Duarte composed several pieces of music for the theater and a requiem. He received the national prize for composition three times.

Works

  • Variacionesa Paganini for piano, 1974
  • 2 piano pieces
  • Varaiciones Mühlbauer
  • Microcom for piano and orchestra, 1974
  • D'Apre Dante et Passolini (a Martha Argerich )
  • Ludios for piano and orchestra
  • Mara for piano
  • Canciones Bofill for piano
  • Suite Jav & Jos for piano, incidental music
  • Dos Piezas inspiradas en Poemas de Rafael Cadenas for piano and voice
  • Sinfonietta "La Mar" for piano and orchestra
  • Suite de los Silencios based on poems by José Antonio Ramos Sucre for piano
  • Concierto de la Cancion Triste for piano, strings and mezzo-soprano (for Aida Navarro )
  • La Misión for piano
  • De la Canción Triste for piano
  • Nocturno for piano (for Guillermo Veloz )
  • De la Mujer de Espaldas for piano
  • De Amor y Muerte , concerto for two pianos and orchestra
  • Quinteto de Fin de Siglo for piano and string quartet, 1999
  • El ultimo Minotauro , incidental music
  • Clitemnestra , incidental music
  • Seis Pietas for piano solo
  • Dos Piezas for piano solo
  • Requiem para un Idiota for piano, choir, eight clarinets, eight double bassoons and eight double basses, 2002
personal data
SURNAME Duarte, Carlos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venezuelan composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Caracas
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 2003
Place of death Caracas