Alberto Villalpando (born 21 November 1940 in La Paz) is a Bolivian composer.
Biography
Villalpando began his musical training in Potosí in Santiago Velásquez and Padre José Díaz Gainza. From 1958 he studied at the Conservatory of Buenos Aires with Alberto Ginastera, Pedro Sáenz, Abraham Jurafsky and Roberto García Morillo and 1963-64 at the Latin American Center for Higher musical studies (CLAEM) in Buenos Aires with Olivier Messiaen, Riccardo Malipiero, Luigi Dallapiccola, Alberto Ginastera, Bruno Maderna and Aaron Copland. Here in cooperation with developed Miguel Angel Rondano a sound installation for an exhibition of the painterCarlos Squirru and the play La Muerte for tape.
In 1964 he became head of the State Film Institute of Bolivia in 1967 director of the Music Department of the Bolivian Ministry of Culture. In addition, he served as professor of composition and director of the National Conservatory of La Paz and the music seminar of the Universidad Católica Boliviana and was Bolivian cultural attaché to France. In 1998 he was awarded the National Prize for Bolivian Culture.
He composed orchestral works such as the next fantastic liturgy, the structures for piano and orchestra, and by love, fear and silence for piano and chamber orchestra ballet and film music, chamber music and the Canticle for soloists, chorus and orchestra. Interested already during his studies of electro-acoustic music, he worked with the tape. In Leo Küpper's recording studio in 1973 originated Bolivianos. He later also electro-acoustic sounds and the technical possibilities of MIDI in.
Works
- La Muerte for tape, 1964
- Mística No. 3 for two string quartets, horn, flute, double bass and tape, 1970
- Mística No. 4 for string quartete, piano and tape, 1970
- Bolivianos...! for tape 1973
- Yamar y Armor, ballet music for voice, tape and orchestra after Blanca Wiethüchter, 1975
- Desde el Jardín de Morador for MIDI, 1990
- De los Elementos for MIDI, 1991
- Manchaypuytu, opera, 1995
- Qantatai for choir, narrator and electronic sounds, 1996
- La Lagarta, ballet for narrator and elektroakustische sounds after Blanca Wiethüchter, 2002
- Piano 3 for piano and two piano synthesizers, 2002
- Mística 10, for de and piano, 2009
- Los diálogos de Tunupa, for viola profonda and string orchestra, 2011
References
External links
- Alberto Villalpando La fondation Daniel Langlois
- Alberto Villalpando Colegio de Compositores Latinoamericanos de Música de Arte