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Miguel Chuaqui
9+ albums
contemporary classicalchile
about
The Chilean-American composer Miguel Chuaqui was born in 1964 in Berkeley, California, and grew up in Santiago, Chile. He studied piano at the Escuela Moderna de Música and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. In 1984 he transferred to the University of California at Berkeley, where he majored in Mathematics and Music, studied electroacoustic music at CNMAT (Center for New Music and Audio Technologies), and went on to complete his Ph.D. in Composition with composer Andrew Imbrie. His music, which includes orchestral, chamber, vocal, and electroacoustic works, has been performed in venues in the U.S. and abroad by Speculum Musicae, Parnassus, Earplay, Left Coast Ensemble, Empyrean Ensemble, Octagon, New York’s Riverside Symphony, New York Virtuoso Singers, Colorado Chamber Players, Canyonlands Ensemble, Abramyan String Quartet, Ensemble Bartok Chile, SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the U.S., and NYCEMF (New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival). He has received commissions from the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, the Koussevitzky Foundation at the Library of Congress, the Utah Arts Council (NEA), Meet the Composer, and from U.S. and international performers and ensembles. Honors include an Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an Aaron Copland Recording Grant, the Eisner Prize, a Nicola de Lorenzo Award, an award from the Society for Universal Sacred Music, and induction into the National Association of Composers of C
top songs
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La Persistencia de la Memoria (The Persistence of Memory)
42Trance
43Saturniana
34Confabulario: I. Rapsodia
35Blues en el Corazón: III. Blues Mágico
36Confabulario: II. Concertación
37El Canto Repartido (The Shared Out Song): I. Que sea repartido todo canto en la tierra (May All Singing be Shared on Earth)
38Blues en el Corazón: II. Blues Ronco
39Juego (Game), for Clarinet, Bass Clarinet & Violin (1991) I. Allegro non troppo
210Juego (Game), for Clarinet, Bass Clarinet & Violin (1991) II. Adagio
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