Gerardo Guevara

Luis Gerardo Guevara Viteri (born September 23, 1930 in Quito ) is an Ecuadorian composer .

Life

Guevara studied at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Quito and won first prize for the piano piece Inspiración in a composition competition marking its 50th anniversary in 1950 . He then went to Guayaquil , where he played as a pianist in the Orquesta Blacio Jr. and was assistant to the choirmaster of the Conservatorio Antonio Neumane . In 1958 he wrote his ballet Yaguar shungo for symphony orchestra, choir and soloists.

A UNESCO scholarship enabled him to study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. In 1967 he became orchestra director at the École Normale de Musique . At the Sorbonne he studied with Jacques Chilly and received a diploma as a musicologist in 1968.

Since 1971 he has conducted the Ecuadorian Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional , in the following year he founded the choir of the Universidad Central del Ecuador , whose conductor he became. In 1973 he became president of the newly founded Sociedad de Autores y Compositores Ecuatorianos (SAYCE) . In 1980 he was appointed director of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música ; he held the position until 1988. Since 1993 he has worked at the Centro Integral de Música .

Works

• Inspiración for piano, 1950
• Despedida , 1957
• Apanny Shungo for piano, 1958
• Geografía for baritone and piano (text by Jorge Enrique Adoum ), 1960
• Tierras for baritone and piano (text by Jorge Carrera Andrade ), 1960
• Primer Cuarteto de Cuerdas , 1960
• El Hombre Planetario for baritone and piano (text by Carrera Andrada), 1962
• Three preludes for piano: Recitativo , Albazo and Sanjuanito , 1963
• Cantata para barítono, orquesta y Coro 1963-64
• Segundo Cuarteto de Cuerdas , 1963-64
• Atahualpa for choir, 1965
• Indios for choir, 1965
• Se va con algo mío , 1967
• Danzante del destino , 1967
• Danzante de la Ausencia , 1967
• Yaraví del desterrado , 1967
• Tuyallay , 1967
• Ismos for violin, viola, cello, oboe, clarinet and piano, 1970
• Ecuador , orchestral suite, 1972
• 5 miniatures ( Panecillo , Pichincha , La Compañía , Avenida Veinticuatro de Mayo , Quito Norte ) for flute, horn, oboe, clarinet and bassoon, 1973
• Quito arrabal del cielo for choir (text by Jorge Reyes ), 1974
• Galería siglo XX de pintores ecuatorianos , orchestral suite , 1976
• El Panecillo , (text by Eloy Proaño ), 1977
• Solsticio de Verano , 1977
• Three melodies for piano, soprano and chamber orchestra based on texts by Ana María Iza ( Iba a fugarme , Pasillo , Aquí me paro y grito ), 1978
• Tríptico para Coro , 1978
• Jaguay , 1980
• Combate poético for baritone and piano, 1980
• Otoño for voice and piano, 1980
• Fiesta for piano, 1982
• Diálogos for flute and piano ( dedicated to Luciano Carrera ), 1982
• Recitativo y Danza for guitar, 1983
• Juegos , 1983
• Suite Ecuatoriana , 1985
• Cuaderno pedagógico para alumnos de piano , 1985–86
• Huayra Shina for soprano, baritone and orchestra, 1987

Web links

• Gerardo Guevara Viteri in the Diccionario Biográfico del Ecuador (Spanish)