Joaquín Orellana

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Joaquín Orellana in 2018.

Joaquín Orellana (born November 5, 1930 or 1937 in Guatemala City ) is a Guatemalan composer.

Orellana Mejía studied from 1949 to 1959 at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música de Guatemala . From 1967 to 1969 he studied at the Instituto de Altos Estudios Musicales Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires , where he got to know avant-garde electroacoustic music. His teachers here included Alberto Ginastera , Gerardo Gandini and Francisco Kröpfl and Franz Ippisch , a Jewish refugee from Austria.

From 1956 to 1974 Orellana was a violinist with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Guatemala . He was also head of the Grupo de Experimentación Musica, which he founded . He worked in the Dirección General de Bellas Artes de Guatemala and taught at the National Conservatory.

From 1977 to 1982 he worked with the brothers David and Igor de Gandarias , and he also taught at the Octavo Curso Latinoamericano de Música Contemporánea in São João del Rei (Brazil). In 2017 he took part in documenta 14 .

Works

  • 1963: Contrastes , ballet, for orchestra and synthesizer
  • 1968: Metéora for synthesizers
  • 1969: Multifona
  • 1971: Humanofonía for orchestra and synthesizer
  • 1972: Malebenue (Humanofonía II) for synthesizers
  • 1972: Entropé for synthesizers
  • 1972: Violin sideral
  • 1973: Primitiva I for synthesizers
  • 1973: Asediado-Asediante for synthesizers
  • 1973: Itero-tzul for synthesizers
  • 1978: Sortilegio for synthesizers
  • 1978: Rupestre en el futuro for synthesizers
  • 1980: Imágenes de una historia en redondo (imposible a la equis) for synthesizers
  • 1980: Imposible a la X
  • 1982: Híbrido a presión for two flutes and synthesizer
  • 1984: Evocación profunda y traslaciones de una marimba for marimba, choir, five recorders, reciter and synthesizer
  • 1984: Canción de Imbervalt
  • 1984: El violón valsante
  • 1986: Híbrido a presión II for two flutes and synthesizer
  • 1992: Cerros de Ilom
  • 1998: Sacratávica
  • 1990: Ramajes de una marimba imaginaria
  • 2001: La tumba del Gran Lengua

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biografía de Joaquín Orellana , accessed on September 21, 2019 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ a b documenta 14 Joaquín Orellana Mejía , accessed on September 22, 2019
  3. ↑ Manfred Scheucher, 2019 Manfred Scheucher, Interview with Joaquín Orellana 2019 , accessed on September 22, 2019 (Spanish / English).
personal data
SURNAME Orellana, Joaquín
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Orellana Mejía, Joaquín (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Guatemalan composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1930 or November 5, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Guatemala City