Erik Oña

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Erik Oña (born November 20, 1961 in Córdoba ; † September 14, 2019 in Basel ) was an Argentine composer , conductor and music teacher .

Career

Oña studied music at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and at the State University of New York at Buffalo . From 1989 to 1993 he was Professor of Composition and Orchestration at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. In 1995 he was visiting professor for composition and electronic music at the Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo. From 1995 to 2001 he taught composition at the University of Buffalo . From 2003 he was Professor of Composition at the University of Birmingham , then he became Professor of Composition and Head of the Studio for Electronic Music at the Basel Music Academy .

From 1994 Oña was the conductor of the ensemble for contemporary music at the State University of New York at Buffalo. After conducting a CD recording of the Cologne Thürmchen Ensemble in 1996 , he became its conductor. He also worked with numerous other orchestras and ensembles such as the June in Buffalo Chamber Ensemble , the JIB Brass Ensemble , the New York New Music Ensemble , the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra , the chamber ensemble Neue Musik Berlin , the ensemble resonance , and the Basel Sinfonietta and led around 150 world premieres of works by contemporary composers. His own compositions cover all genres from chamber music to opera and have been performed at festivals and in concert series in Europe, Japan and America. He died of cancer on September 14, 2019 in Basel.

Discography

  • Other voices / Tiger and Patriarch / Five songs / Alles Nahe wird fern / Yodelling / Euler sonatas , compositions by Erik Oñas under his own direction
  • lys / nothing but noise / resonances / weights and measures / thresholds / a place for coincidences , Erik Oña conducts works by Karin Haußmann
  • Mass movement , compositions by Carsten Hennig
  • And. Went. Outside. Over. Erik Oña conducts compositions by Thomas Stiegler

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erik Oña (1961-2019)
personal data
SURNAME Oña, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian composer, conductor and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Cordoba
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 2019
Place of death Basel