Joaquín Orellana
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
- ↑ Biografía de Joaquín Orellana , accessed on September 21, 2019 (Spanish).
- ↑ a b documenta 14 Joaquín Orellana Mejía , accessed on September 22, 2019
- ↑ Manfred Scheucher, 2019 Manfred Scheucher, Interview with Joaquín Orellana 2019 , accessed on September 22, 2019 (Spanish / English).
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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 |