Iris Sanguesa Explained

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.^{[5] [6] [7]}

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

Ballet

• Copahue, on an Auracanian Legend
• Los Trabajos del Bailarin

Chamber

• Quartet (percussion)
• Quartet (wind instruments)
• Quintet for Winds^[8]
• Sonata (double bass and piano)
• Sonata (flute and piano)
• Sonata (harp)

Multimedia

• Intergracion (tape, dancer, and color projections)
• Llaman las llamas (synthesizer, piano, voice, narrator, double bass and percussion; text by Marcos Llona)
• Oda a la Humanidad (six voices, mixed choir, orchestra and tape)
• Permanencia I (tape)
• Permanencia II-Espiral (tape)

Orchestra

• Abastractas
• Aforismos del Bhagavad Gita
• Estudios Orquestrales
• Sincresis
• Transiciones

Piano

• Canción Araucana
• El Pianista Chileno (for children)
• Mariposas
• Pieces for Children
• Variations

Vocal

• • “Hymn for Liceo Gabriela Mistra”l “Hymn for Liceo Manuel de Salas”
• “Hymn for the Swiss College”

• Listen to works by Iris Sanguesa

Notes and References

1. Book: Cohen, Aaron I. . International encyclopedia of women composers. 2: Sai - Zyb, Appendices . 1987 . Books & Music . 978-0-9617485-1-7 . 2. ed., revised and enl . New York . 615–616.
2. Web site: SANGUESA, Iris . 2023-07-20 . Donne, Women in Music . en-GB.
3. Book: Hall, Lawton . The Meanings of Musics and Technologies in the Twentieth Century: Case Studies in Postwar Pop, Afrofuturist Jazz, and Chilean Electronic Music (thesis) . University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee . 2023 . Milwaukee . 93, 97.
4. Book: Epstein, Louis . Open Access Musicology: Volume Two . 2023-07-11 . University of Michigan Press . 978-1-64315-049-9 . en.
5. Book: Dal Farra, Ricardo L. . A Journey of Sound Through the Electroacoustic Wires Art and New Technologies in Latin America (thesis) . University of Quebec at Montreal . 2006 . Montreal . 207.
6. Book: Ficher . Miguel . Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary . Schleifer . Martha Furman . Furman . John M. . 2002-10-16 . Scarecrow Press . 978-1-4616-6911-1 . en.
7. Book: Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog . 1988-10-19 . ABC-CLIO . 978-0-313-26019-3 . en.
8. Web site: wind quintet Iris Sanguesa . 2023-07-20 . www.linfoulk.org.