Pozzi Escot

(Olga) Pozzi Escot (born October 1, 1933 in Lima , Peru ) is an American composer .

Escot studied from 1954 to 1957 at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City and then until 1960 at the Musikhochschule Hamburg with Philipp Jarnach , William Bergsma and Andrés Sás Orchassal . She was a guest composer at the Music Center in Tanglewood / Massachusetts and directed the New Event Ensemble concert series in Boston and Space, Time and Sound .

She was a professor at Wheaton College and the New England Conservatory , President of the International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies , Director of Tufts University Talloires International Composers Conference and, since 1980, editor-in-chief of Sonus magazine . Escot wrote several music theory writings, including Sonic Design: The Nature of Sound and Music (with Robert Cogan ) and composed works predominantly for chamber music and several piano pieces.

Works

• Three Poems of Rilke for string quartet and speaker
• Lamentus (Trilogy for the 6 million nr. 1 obviously the Jewish Nazi victims) for soprano, two violins, two cellos, piano and three percussion
• Christos (Trilogy no. 2) for alto flute, contrabassoon, percussion and three violins
• Visione for double bass, flute, alto saxophone, soprano, percussion and speaker
• Three Movements for piano and violin
• Sands (Symphony no.5)
• Fergus Are for organ
• Missa Triste for female choir and three instruments

Fonts

• Sonic Design: The Nature of Sound and Music
• The Poetics of Simple Mathematics in Music
• Oh How Wondrous: Hildegard von Bingen, Ten Essays