Roque Cordero
Roque Cordero (born August 16, 1917 in Panama City , † December 27, 2008 in Dayton , Ohio , USA) was a Panamanian composer.
Cordero studied with Máximo Arrates Boza , Pedro Rebolledo , Herbert de Castro and Myron Schaeffer and then went to the USA, where he first became a student of Ernst Krenek , then Dimitri Mitropoulos , Stanley Chapple and Leon Barzin . From 1938 he directed the newly founded Symphony Orchestra of Panama. From 1950 to 1966 he was Professor of Composition at the Instituto Nacional de Música . From 1969 he taught composition at the Latin American Music Center at Indiana University . From 1970 he was musical advisor to the Southern Music Publishing Company .
He composed, among other things, three symphonies , a rhapsody , a piano and a violin concerto, ballet music, chamber music works, piano works and choral pieces.
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| SURNAME | Cordero, Roque |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Panamanian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Panama City |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 2008 |
| Place of death | Dayton , Ohio , USA |