Mesías Maiguashca

Mesías Maiguashca (born 24 December 1938), is an Ecuadorian composer, an advocate of the new music, especially electroacoustic music.

Biography

Born in Quito, Maiguashca studied music at the Conservatorio Nacional de Quito, at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY (1958–65), with Alberto Ginastera at the Instituto di Tella in Buenos Aires, and at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne. In 1965–66 he returned to Quito to teach at the National Conservatory, but then moved back to Germany to attend the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, and the Fourth Cologne Courses for New Music in 1966–67, where he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen (Béhague 2001; Stockhausen 1971, 201–202). He is regarded as one of the central figures of the Cologne School, active since the mid-1970s (Kapko-Foretić 1980, 50).

Maiguashca worked closely with Stockhausen in the Electronic Music Studio of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne from 1968 to 1972, and joined Stockhausen's ensemble for performances at the German Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka. He also prepared the recording of the collective composition Ensemble, organized by Stockhausen for the Darmstadt Courses in 1967. In 1971 he became a founding member of the Oeldorf Group of composers and performers, as well as beginning work at the Centre Européen pour la Recherche Musicale in Metz, at IRCAM in Paris, and at the ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe (Béhague 2001). He has taught in Metz, Stuttgart, Basel, Quito, and Győr, amongst other places. From 1990 to 2004 he was Professor of Electronic Music at the Musikhochschule of Freiburg im Breisgau, the town where he has lived since 1996.

Works

Compositions

Note: for a complete catalogue refer to the composer's website.

Writings

Discography

Mesias Maiguashca, Fmelodies II and works by
J. Harvey, G. Loy, Kaija Saariaho, D. Smalley
Mesias Maiguashca:
The Spirit Catcher, The Tonal, Sacatecas Dance, The Wings of Perception II, El Oro, The Nagual.
Mesias Maiguashca, Übungen for violin & Shynth. Other works by D. Johnson,
K. Barlow, S. Foretic, P. Eötvös y John McGuire.
K.O. Studio Freiburg
Z. Szathmáry spielt Werke from Mesias Maiguashca (Nemos Orgel)
und W. Michel, Z. S zathmáry, H. Otte, C. Lefebvre.
Published by Sumak, Música académica ecuatoriana del Siglo XX
Mesias Maiguashca, La Noche Cíclica and works by
J. Campoverde, P. Freire, A. Rodas, L. Enríquez, E. Flores & M. Estévez.
CCEN del Azuay

Sources

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