Iris Sanguesa

Iris Sanguesa de Ichasso (born 1933) is a Chilean composer, pianist and percussionist. She was one of the first women to study at the Torcuato Di Tella Institute’s Centro Latinamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (CLAEM) , where she composed several multimedia pieces. She is known professionally as Iris Sanguesa.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Sanguesa was born in Osorno, Chile. She graduated from the Chilean National Conservatory in Santiago in 1959, and received a fellowship to study at the CLAEM in Buenos Aires in 1967-68. Her teachers included Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, German Berner, Jorge Canelo, Augustin Cullel, Alberto Ginastera, Flora Guerra, and Herminia Raccagni.^[1]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[4]

Sanguesa taught at several venues in Santiago. She lived in Argentina from 1985 to 2001, then returned to Chile.^[5]^[8] Her compositions include:

Ballet

Copahue, on an Auracanian Legend^[1]

Los Trabajos del Bailarin^[1]

Chamber

Quartet (percussion)^[1]

Quartet (wind instruments)^[1]

Quintet for Winds^[9]

Sonata (double bass and piano)^[1]

Sonata (flute and piano)^[7]

Sonata (harp)^[1]

Multimedia

Intergracion (tape, dancer, and color projections)^[3]

Llaman las llamas (synthesizer, piano, voice, narrator, double bass and percussion; text by Marcos Llona)^[5]

Oda a la Humanidad (six voices, mixed choir, orchestra and tape)^[5]

Permanencia I (tape)^[5]

Permanencia II-Espiral (tape)^[5]

Orchestra

Abastractas^[1]

Aforismos del Bhagavad Gita^[1]

Estudios Orquestrales^[1]

Sincresis^[1]

Transiciones^[1]

Piano

Canción Araucana^[10]

El Pianista Chileno (for children)^[1]

Mariposas^[10]

Pieces for Children^[1]

Variations^[1]

Vocal

“Hymn for Liceo Gabriela Mistra”l^[1]

“Hymn for Liceo Manuel de Salas”^[1]

“Hymn for the Swiss College”^[1]

Listen to works by Iris Sanguesa

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers. 2: Sai - Zyb, Appendices (2. ed., revised and enl ed.). New York: Books & Music. pp. 615–616. ISBN 978-0-9617485-1-7.
^ "SANGUESA, Iris". Donne, Women in Music. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
^ ^a ^b Hall, Lawton (2023). The Meanings of Musics and Technologies in the Twentieth Century: Case Studies in Postwar Pop, Afrofuturist Jazz, and Chilean Electronic Music (thesis). Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. pp. 93, 97.
^ ^a ^b Epstein, Louis (2023-07-11). Open Access Musicology: Volume Two. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-1-64315-049-9.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Dal Farra, Ricardo L. (2006). A Journey of Sound Through the Electroacoustic Wires Art and New Technologies in Latin America (thesis). Montreal: University of Quebec at Montreal. p. 207.
^ Ficher, Miguel; Schleifer, Martha Furman; Furman, John M. (2002-10-16). Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1-4616-6911-1.
^ ^a ^b Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog. ABC-CLIO. 1988-10-19. ISBN 978-0-313-26019-3.
^ Chilenas en la Música: Iris Sangüesa, retrieved 2023-07-20
^ "wind quintet | Iris Sanguesa". www.linfoulk.org. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
^ ^a ^b Chilenas al piano: Episodio Nº1, retrieved 2023-07-20

[:0-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers. 2: Sai - Zyb, Appendices (2. ed., revised and enl ed.). New York: Books & Music. pp. 615–616. ISBN 978-0-9617485-1-7.

[2] "SANGUESA, Iris". Donne, Women in Music. Retrieved 2023-07-20.

[:1-3] Hall, Lawton (2023). The Meanings of Musics and Technologies in the Twentieth Century: Case Studies in Postwar Pop, Afrofuturist Jazz, and Chilean Electronic Music (thesis). Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. pp. 93, 97.

[:2-4] Epstein, Louis (2023-07-11). Open Access Musicology: Volume Two. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-1-64315-049-9.

[:3-5] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Dal Farra, Ricardo L. (2006). A Journey of Sound Through the Electroacoustic Wires Art and New Technologies in Latin America (thesis). Montreal: University of Quebec at Montreal. p. 207.

[6] Ficher, Miguel; Schleifer, Martha Furman; Furman, John M. (2002-10-16). Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1-4616-6911-1.

[:4-7] Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog. ABC-CLIO. 1988-10-19. ISBN 978-0-313-26019-3.

[8] Chilenas en la Música: Iris Sangüesa, retrieved 2023-07-20

[9] "wind quintet | Iris Sanguesa". www.linfoulk.org. Retrieved 2023-07-20.

[:5-10] Chilenas al piano: Episodio Nº1, retrieved 2023-07-20

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