Virginia Yep

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Virginia Yep (* 1960 in Lima , Peru ) is a Peruvian ethnomusicologist , musician and composer .

Professional background

Yep began to learn guitar at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música with Nelly Borda at the age of eight and then to study with Juan Brito. At 17 she was also a lecturer there. In the course of her studies she won the prize for the highest qualification at the conservatory and the second prize in the "WA Mozart Competition" , in which various instruments compete with one another. In parallel to her music studies, she completed a degree in journalism at the University of Lima . After her final exam as a concert guitarist , she moved to Madrid on a scholarship to continue studying with José Luis Rodrigo at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música . She received an award in the final competition for the best students in her year. Furthermore, she took part in the most important master classes with José Luis Rodrigo, Flores Chaviano, José Tomás, Vladimir Mikulka and Leo Brouwer as a scholarship holder in Granada, Santiago de Compostela, Ville de Castres, Bilbao, Vigo and Prague.

She gave concert appearances in Peru, South and Central America, USA, Europe, Turkey and China, as well as in various radio and television programs. In Peru she often played as a soloist with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, Camerata de Cuerdas de Trujillo and Orquesta de Cámara de Lima; she also played with various chamber music groups . She came to Germany on a scholarship and did her doctorate in comparative musicology at the Free University of Berlin. Parallel to her concert activities, she composes and does music research with a focus on music from the coast of Peru. She currently lives in Berlin, where she works as a concert guitarist, composer and university lecturer.

Works (selection)

Guitar compositions

  • Guitarreando I (2002)
  • Catacaos
  • Canarios-Congorito
  • Valse Variado
  • Homenaje Criollo (2002)
  • Guitarreando II (2002)
  • Bordón
  • Juan frente al mar
  • De a cinco
  • Despertar de guitarra (2004)
  • Tres tiempos para guitarra (2004)
  • Escenas (2004)
  • Estudios Criollos (2005)
  • Estudio Danza
  • Estudio Valse
  • Estudio Polka
  • Estudio elegant
  • Estudio zamacueca
  • Cuentos para guitarra (2005)
  • Fiesta (2005)
  • Tres Piezas (2005)
  • La Mariposa Negra (2006)
  • El vuelo del cóndor (2006)
  • Solo de Marinera (2006)
  • Solo de Landó (2008)
  • Solo de Festejo (2008)
  • Aires de Santiago (2009)
  • Misticología (Preludio - Canto - Danza de los volcanes) (2010)
  • Landó Clásico (2011)
  • Paisaje No. 3 (2011)
  • Tiento No. 1 (2011)
  • Cantos de Medio Siglo (4 fragments) (2011)
  • Summer (2011)
  • Por el camino de Florencia (Caminando, Riendo, Soñando, Cantando, Danzando, Conversando, Jugando, Recordando) (2012)
  • Tiento No. 2 (2013)
  • Danza de las dos hermanas (2013)
  • Valsecito de invierno (2013)
  • Momentos (2015)

Works for guitar and other instruments

  • Tres estudios negros, para guitarra y cajón (2004), Editorial Noches de Sol, Lima
  • Serenata Peruana, for guitar trio or guitar quartet (2004), three fragments
  • Somos Serenata Peruana, for voice and two guitars (2005)
  • Canción del agua, for Charango Solo (2005)
  • El cóndor y el colibrí, for recorder and guitar (2007)
  • Yacutusuy, for charango, guitar, baglama and ud (2008)
  • Sayita Oriental, for baglama, ud and guitar (2008)
  • Paisaje No. 1, for two guitars (2007)
  • Paisaje No. 2, for guitar trio (2008)
  • Microritmias, for baglama, ud and guitar (2008), three fragments
  • Winch, for Charango Solo (2009)
  • Ancestros, for guitar and percussion (2009), five fragments
  • The Dance of the Wind with the Palm for guitar ensemble (2012)
  • Rondó Criollo (Homenaje a Enrique Granados; 2016)
  • Flor del aire (2016)
  • Rainbow over Berlin (2016)
  • Variaciones sobre al agüenieve (2017)
  • Danza de la Pachamama negra (2017)
  • Valsecito de verano (2017)
  • Sunrise in the woods, for two guitars (2018)
  • Tejedoras de sueños (2018)

Fonts

  • Sin Banda no hay fiesta. Música del Bajo Piura. Fondo Editorial de la Universidad de Lima. 2015.
  • The bandas. An instrumental practice and its importance for musical life in Bajo Piura, northern Peru. Publishing house Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken 2008, ISBN 978-3-8364-8931-7 (also dissertation, FU Berlin 2002, online version ).
  • The "Valse" in Lima, Peru . Thesis, Berlin 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150816001636/http://home.arcor.de/v.yep/biographieVirginiaD.html
personal data
SURNAME Yep, Virginia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian ethnomusicologist, musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Lima , Peru