Roberto Pineda Duque

Roberto Pineda Duque (born August 29, 1910 in El Santuario / Antioquia , † November 14, 1977 in Bogotá ) was a Colombian composer .

Pineda studied from 1936 at the Instituto de Bellas Artes in Medellín with Joaquín Fustér and Carlos Posada Amador . At the same time he became a member of the choir of the cathedral and later organist at the Church of San José . In 1942 he entered the Conservatory of Cali , where he was a student of Antonio María Valencia .

From 1946 to 1948 he lived as an organist in various churches in Bogotá. After four years as an organist in Medellín, he returned to Bogotá in 1953 to study with Carlo Jacchino and José Rozo Contreras . In 1955 he became organist at the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Las Nieves and in 1957 lecturer at the Conservatory of the Universidad Nacional . One of his composition students was Lucas José Estrada Abadía

From 1959 Pineda studied with Vincent Persichetti at the Juilliard School of Music in New York . In 1964 he became a lecturer at the Escuela de Música in Bucaramanga . Since 1971 he has been a lecturer at the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional and gave courses at the Universidad de Tunja . In 1973 he became director of the Banda Sinfónica Nacional .

In addition to an opera, he composed numerous church music works, including masses , psalms and requiem , a piano, a violin and a flute concerto and other orchestral works, chamber music and works for piano, organ, flute, violin and other solo instruments.

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