This article deals with the musical and personal contacts both in Chile and in the United States of Juan Pablo Izquierdo with the Chilean composer Juan Orrego-Salas, recipient of the National Arts Prize in Music in 1992. Approximately sixty years ago Izquierdo began taking private lessons in composition with Orrego-Salas in Santiago, Chile. Both remained in contact until the outset of the l960’s, a period in which Izquierdo completed his studies in orchestral conducting and offered his first concerts in Chile. Thereafter Orrego-Salas settled in the United States with his family in 1961. He became professor of composition at the School of Music of the University of Indiana, Bloomington, Besides he founded and was appointed as the first director of the Latin American Center at this
institution. In the decade of the 1980’s Juan Pablo Izquierdo took part in the activities of both the School of Music and the Latin American Music Center of the Indiana University. Apart from Juan Pablo Izquierdo, the article mentions the names of other orchestral conductors from Chile and Latin America who have presented symphonic works of Chilean and Latin American composers in the United States.
Keywords:
Juan Pablo Izquierdo, Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile, School of Music and Latin American Music Center of the University of Indiana, Bloomington, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Orrego Salas, J. (2013). Greetings to a Meritorious Recipient of the National Arts Prize in Music. Recollections of Juan Pablo Izquierdo in Two Earth Hemispheres. Revista Musical Chilena, 67(220), 12–16. Retrieved from https://rchdt.uchile.cl/index.php/RMCH/article/view/30650
