Contemporary Classics May 4, 2021 Panorama de las Compositoras Argentinas

Tonight’s program on Contemporary Classics is entitle Panorama de las Compositoras Argentinas or Panorama of Argentinian Women Composers.  This show was inspired by two events: listening to the recently released album by Jacqueline Leclair entitled Music for English Horn Alone from New Focus Recordings and a request to “like” the professional page of a Facebook friend Carolina Heredia.   Carolina is Argentinian as well as is one composer Cecilia Arditto from Music for English Horn Alone album.  This triggered me to look up other women Argentinian composers.  So tonight on Contemporary Classics I am showcasing the music of 5 Compositoras Argentinas: Silvina Milstein, Cecilia Arditto, Carolina Heredia, Patricia Martínez and María Eugenia Luc.

Silvina Milstein  

Born in Buenos Aires in 1956. Her early musical education had taken place at the Collegium Musicum of Buenos Aires and the Escuela de Bellas Artes of the University of La Plata.  She emigrated to the UK following the military coup of 1976.  Following studies at  Glasgow University, she took up a position at Kings College London where she is now a professor of music. Her compositions have been championed by the late Oliver Knussen and Odaline de la Martinez

Silvina Milstein’s music is many-layered and complex an uses evocative gestures that draw on the vernacular music of Buenos Aires. 

Cecilia Arditto

Born in Buenos Aires, 1966). She studied music at the Julián Aguirre Conservatory, Banfield; Center for Advanced Studies in Contemporary Music (CEAMC), Buenos Aires and at the Amsterdam Conservatory. Since 2002 she has lived in Holland.

Carolina Heredia   

Carolina Heredia was born and raised in Córdoba, Argentina where she received a Licenciatura  Lee-see-en sin tura  in Music Composition degree from the National University of Villa Maria (Córdoba, Argentina) and graduated from the Violin program at the Superior Conservatory of Music, Felix T. Garzón (Córdoba, Argentina).  She was also an active part of the popular music scene as a free-lance performer, playing and recording violin for several traditional and progressive Tango, and Latin American Folk, and Rock groups. After moving to the United States in 2009, Carolina completed her Master in Music Composition degree, her Doctorate in Music Composition degree, and was later a 1-year Research Fellow for the Institute of Humanities at the University of Michigan.  She is now  an assistant professor of music composition at the University of Missouri School of Music and is the Assistant Director of the Mizzou New Music Initiative.

Patricia Martínez 

Also from Buenos Aires. She studied at the Municipal Conservatory of Buenos Aires, Quilmes University and she was the youngest composer completing the Annual Course in Computer Music (IRCAM, 1996/97). 

She holds the Doctoral and a Master degree in Music Composition from Stanford University

María Eugenia Luc   

Born in Rosario, Argentina. She completed her musical studies at the National University of Rosario-Argentina; the L.I.P.M. (Laboratory of Research and Musical Production of Buenos Aires - Argentina) but also studied in Italy and France. Since 2004 she has a professor of "Music and Interdisciplinary Creation" of MUSIKENE - Higher School of Music of the Basque Country.