Nydia Pereyra-Lizaso

Nydia Pereyra-Lizaso

Nydia Pereyra-Lizaso (born 12 May 1916) is a Uruguayan composer, pianist, and music educator.

Life

Nydia was born in Rocha, Uruguay. She studied music with Dolores Bell and Carmen Barrera at the Conservatory of Teresiano in Rocha, and in Montevideo with Wilhelm Kolisch for piano, Tomás Mujica for counterpoint and fugue and Enrique Casal-Chapí for composition. After completing her studies she worked as a composer and taught music at the Kolischer Conservatory and at the Institute of Musical Education.[1]

Pereyra-Lizaso's works have been performed internationally. Her Four miniatures for violin and viola won the chamber music award at GEDOK in Mannheim, 1966. She also won the Casa de Teatro stage music award in 1959, 1964, 1966, 1967 and 1978 for incidental music in plays performed by the Comedia Nacional de Montevideo. She has published a number of pedagogical works written for children.[2][3]

Works

Nydia Pereyra-Lizaso composes mainly for chamber ensemble and vocal performance. Selected works include:

  • Sarabande for piano
  • Divertimento for strings
  • Adagio and Allegro, clarinet, pianoforte, 1958
  • Allegro and Andante, Bass clarinet, pianoforte, 1965
  • Four miniatures, violin, viola, clarinet, 1966
  • Song about Juan Ramon Gimenez, violin, pianoforte, 1954
  • 2 Songs (text C. Gómez Martínez), violin, pianoforte 1956
  • 3 Songs (text E. de Cáceres), vocal or choir, 1956
  • 6 Songs (text R.M. Rilke ), Mezzo-soprano, pianoforte, 1959
  • 3 Songs (E. de Cáceres), Soprano, pianoforte, 1967
  • Pianoforte Sonata no.1, 1955
  • Sonata no. 2, 1958
  • Sonatina, 1967
  • 3 pieces for children, 1967
  • Sonatina in G, 1963
  • 2 miniatures, 1968

References

  1. ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994) (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. http://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&pg=PA367&dq=Nydia+Pereyra-Lizaso&hl=en&ei=a9L3TMzkIcP88AawyIidCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Nydia%20Pereyra-Lizaso&f=false. Retrieved 2 December 2010. 
  2. ^ Ficher, Miguel; Schleifer, Martha Furman; Furman, John M. (2002). Latin American classical composers: a biographical dictionary. 
  3. ^ "Pereyra-Lizaso, Nydia". http://www.operas.com.ar/1/Music-Encyclopedia834.htm. Retrieved 2 December 2010. 

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