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Iturriberry, Juan José (b. October 24, 1936, Pando). Uruguayan composer of mostly chamber and piano works that have been performed throughout the Americas.
Mr. Iturriberry began his piano studies with Genoveva Fariña de Praga in Montevideo and later perfected them with Numen Vilariño. He subsequently studied musicology at the Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias in Montevideo and counterpoint, harmony, musical forms, serialism, and the twelve-tone system with Angelo Turriziani. He then studied composition with Carlos Estrada, Manuel Fernández Espiro, Antonio Mastrogiovanni, and Héctor Tosar at the Escuela Universitaria de Música. In addition, he twice participated in the Cursos Latinoamericanos de Música Contemporánea in Piriápolis, Uruguay in 1971-72.
He has earned many honors, including First Prize in the competition of the Escuela Universitaria de Música (1969, for Variaciones) and a performance at the ISCM World Music Days in Boston (1975). Moreover, he was chosen by the Agrupación Musical Anacrusa in Santiago, Chile to participate in the Encuentro Latinoamericano de Música Contemporánea (1989).
He is also active in other positions. He worked as a critic for the newspapers Época in 1967 and Lea in 1989 and also for the weekly publications Marcha in 1969-70 and Brecha in 1986-87, all in Montevideo. He was invited as a specialist for SGAE, the Spanish society of authors and composers, to work on the Diccionario de la Música Española e Hispanoamericana in 1990-91. He is an active member of the Núcleo Música Nueva de Montevideo and of the Sociedad Uruguaya de Música Contemporánea, the Uruguayan section of ISCM.
He has taught at various institutions, including the Artigas Institute for Teachers (IPA), the Center for the Arts, the Escuela Universitaria de Música, the Monseñor Nicolás Luquese, and the Santa Luisa de Marillac.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: feritu@adinet.com.uy
Street address: Mr. Juan José Iturriberry, 1427/208 Luis A. De Herrera, 11600 Montevideo, Uruguay
Telephone: + 598 2628 5265
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
ORCHESTRAL: Conglomerado-Disgregado, 1977
CHAMBER MUSIC: Elegía, cello, piano, 1970; Seis piezas breves, flute, guitar, 1970; Dos piezas, cello, piano, 1971; Música nocturna, violin, cello, piano, 1973; Meditación, oboe, 1975; Tiempo de silencio, guitar, 1975, revised 1981; Auletas y citaristas, oboe, theorbo, 1977; La auto-reflautación de Bloñilco, flute, 1977; Citaristas, guitar, 1980; El libro de las estatuas, oboe, string quartet, 1981 (also version for organ, 1998); Introito (in memoriam Bloñilco), wind ensemble, 1989; El metro del Señor Lorenzo, saxophone, trombone, piano, 1999; Música para tres, tenor recorder/flute, guitar, piano, 2000; Aquí y allá, flute, saxophone, guitar, 2001; La Sembradora, flute, cello, piano, 2001-02; Cuarteto de cuerdas, string quartet, 2002
VOCAL: Pequeño registro civil, speaker, guitar, 1962, revised 1974; Canciones del día (text by Georgette Pereira), soprano, piano, 1968; Cuatro cantos, tenor, guitar, 1973
PIANO: Variaciones, 1969; Seis bagatelas, 1971; Maresatesandería, prepared piano, 1972, revised 1975; Preámbula, 1980; Fuera de la jaula, prepared piano, 1983; Respuesta para una carta no escrita, 1985, revised 2002; Los Olvidados, 1991; El disfraz de los sosías, 1992; Los Inservibles, 1992; La yegua del Distrito 5, 1995; Los Extravagantes, 1996; ...sin querer, 1996; La Malcriada, 1997; Casi improvisado, 1997
ORGAN: El libro de las estatuas, 1998 (version of chamber work)
(Last updated on August 9, 2004)
