Directors and investigators
DIRECTOR:
Alejandro Iglesias Rossi
Premier Prix (CNSMD de Paris)
“Iglesias Rossi is an artist who belongs to his time as regards to musical language, but whose search is closer to that of the medieval mystic path than to the end of the 20th century. His works, that show local color through their texts and sound material, speak about his faithfulness to Latin American roots. His apocalyptic vision produces a tremendous tension that makes it impossible not to be overwhelmed by it”. DICTIONARY OF SPANISH AND HISPANO-AMERICAN MUSIC, Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales, Spain 1999.
Maestro John Cage wrote and dedicated the following Poem (Mesostic) to him in 1988:
Video Hommage on his work at the International Rostrum of Composers: www.facebook.com/ORQUESTAdeINSTRUMENTOSAUTOCTONOS/videos/1842427882525601
Alejandro Iglesias Rossi is the President of the Argentine National Music Council.
He is the only composer in History having received the two main musical Awards of the UNESCO: the First Prize of the International Rostrum of Composers of the UNESCO (Paris 1985) for his work Ancestral Rites of a Forgotten Culture considered “a masterwork of the XX century” by the International Music Council as well as the First Prize of the International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music of the UNESCO (Amsterdam 1996) for his work Angelus.
The City of Buenos Aires awarded him its Musical Prize in 1991.
His works have been performed throughout the world at the Carnegie Hall, Centre Georges Pompidou, Lincoln Center, Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, Queen Elizabeth Hall of London, Warsaw Philharmonic, Oslo Konserthus, Hong Kong City Hall, Teatro Colón, among others.
As a conductor, he founded the Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments and New Technologies (which presents in concert the largest collection of native instruments of the Americas in the world) and toured extensively the world conducting it.
As a music educator he created the Master Degree in Musical Creation, New Technologies and Traditional Arts as well as the Bachelor Degree in Indigenous, Classical and Popular Music of the Americas at the National University of Argentina at Tres de Febrero.
As a researcher, he has done field work in the Amazonas, the Andes, Patagonia as well as Mesoamerica and established the Center for Ethnomusicology and Creation in Traditional and Avant-Garde Arts.
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VICE-DIRECTORA:
Lic. Susana Ferreres
“The whole Hall was astonished by the interpretation of Susana Ferreres, who transformed the work Lonquén in a rite of musical sacrifice". LATVIAN NATIONAL RADIO - November 23, 2006
“Lonquén begins with the mournful words of the breathtakingly talented Susana Ferreres. Her vocals increase in intensity as the barrage of instruments roar around her, reaching a painful poignant crescendo”. THE JAKARTA POST - Indonesia - November 19, 2007
As a musician, she studied violoncello, voice and composition in Argentina, USA and France and received her Degree in Musicology at the Paris University. As Voice Soloist of the Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments and New Technologies she has toured extensively throughout the world.
She is the Head of both the Lutherie and Sculpture-making Ateliers of the Orchestra. She was trained as an iconographer learning the Native Iconography Arts from Masters of the Spiritual Tradition of the Americas.
She is the Vice-Head of the Center for Ethnomusicology and Creation in Traditional and Avant - Garde Arts and created the Physical Architecture Course of the Master Degree in Musical Creation, New Technologies and Traditional Arts as well as the Escenic & Corporal Course of the Bachelor Degree in Indigenous, Classical and Popular Music of the Americas at the National University of Argentina at Tres de Febrero.
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Researchers
Mg. Julieta Szewach, Mg. Juan Pablo Nicoletti, Mg. Anabella Enrique, Mg. Diana Ramírez Sánchez, Mg. Federico Martínez, Dr. Juan Vila, Lic. Lucas Mattioni, Lic. Nahuel Giunta, Mg. María Emilia Sosa Cacace, Lic. Horacio Velazco, Lic. Natalia De la Puente, Mg. Jonathan Corzo Garavito, Mg. María Paula González Fajardo, Lic. Giraldo Rodríguez, Lic. Clara Enrique, Lic. Leonardo Fontana, Lic Hernán Cuadrado, Prof. Sensei Luis Falcone, Mg. Pablo Claría, Walter Martín Besada, Aldo Alfieri, Natalia Enrique, María Sabaidini, Pablo Funes, Agustín Gennari, Lic. Nicolas Romero Lombana, Lic. María Eugenia Ojeda