Rodolfo Acosta (composer)

Rodolfo Acosta R. (born November 2, 1970 in Bogotá ) is a Colombian composer.

Life

Acosta studied music theory and composition at the Universidad de Los Andes until 1995 and continued his training at the Berklee College of Music , in Colombia, Uruguay, France, the Netherlands and Mexico with Klaus Huber , Brian Ferneyhough , Blás Emilo Atehortúa , Kaija Saariaho , Coriún Aharonián , Graciela Paraskevaídis , Roger Cochini and Víctor Rasgado continued.

In 1994 he received the solo prize of the Concurso Nacional de Composición en Música Electroacústica and in 1997 the Premio Nacional de Composición of the Colombian Ministry of Culture. He teaches at the Universidad Central , the Universidad Javeriana and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá.

Works

• Requiescat in pace for mixed choir (1993)
• El Señor Costillas y su maldo cocodrilo for piano (1993)
• Si tan solo fueramos libres ... for tape (1993)
• Canso for piano (1994)
• Missa Brevis for chamber choir, organ and bells (1995)
• Viaggio a l'Interzona , guitar quartet (1995)
• Laberinto , guitar quartet (1995)
• Carceris Tonalis for live electronics, electric guitar, two drum groups, two amplified guitars and three amplified voices (1995)
• SUSPENSION 1 for flute, tape and live electronics (1995-98)
• In abyssus humanæ conscientiæ for tape (1996)
• String Quartet No. 1 (1996-97)
• Una guitarra naranja for guitar (1997)
• v3v3v3v for nine solo voices (1997)
• La muerte de Stephen Albert for flute (s) (1996)
• Wind , wind quintet (1998)
• (casi) nada for viola, cello and percussion (1998)
• Canto per Klaus for a solo percussionist (1999)
• Sola for a female solo voice (2000)
• Us a calm mystery? for tape (2000)
• Doft for bass clarinet, percussion and live electronics (2000)
• anís for violin, double bass and percussion (2000–01)
• fe (2000–01)
• Stable / mobiles for chamber orchestras