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Aharonián, Coriún (b. 1940, Montevideo). Uruguayan composer of mostly chamber and electroacoustic works that have been performed throughout the world.
Mr. Aharonián studied music (and briefly architecture) in Uruguay and completed his musical studies in Argentina, Chile, France, Germany, and Italy. His most important teachers were the composers Luigi Nono and Héctor Tosar, the musicologist Lauro Ayestarán and the pianist Adela Herrera-Lerena. He has also received lessons from Gerardo Gandini, Vinko Globokar, György Ligeti, Gordon Mumma, Folke Rabe, Fernando von Reichenbach, Christian Wolff, and Iannis Xenakis, among others. He was a guest composer of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst in 1984–85.
His recent honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2004–05, for musicological work).
He is also active in other positions. He has written several articles and essays on music and culture, which have been published in Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Mexico, Sweden, the UK, Uruguay, the USA, and Venezuela. He has also written the books Héctor Tosar, compositor uruguayo (1991, Trilce), Conversaciones sobre música, cultura e identidad (1992, Ombú; republished 2000, 2005, Tacuabé), Introducción a la música (2002, revised 2008, Tacuabé), Educación, arte, música (2004, Tacuabé), and Músicas populares del Uruguay (2007, Universidad de la República). In addition, he edited the book Estudios para Los origenes del tango argentino by Carlos Vega (2007, Educa). He has been an organizer of music and music education activities in Uruguay and elsewhere and was a co-founder and member of the collective of a non-profit record label. He was also a member of the executive committee of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music and of the presidential council of ISCM, as well as executive secretary of the Cursos Latinoamericanos de Música Contemporánea.
He has taught as a professor at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo and the Instituto de Profesores in Montevideo and as a guest professor at universities in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Ecuador. He has taught composition in Argentina, Bolivia and Uruguay and has given courses, lectures, masterclasses, seminars, and workshops in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, France, Germany, Mexico, The Netherlands, Paraguay, Peru, The Philippines, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Uruguay, the USA, and Venezuela.
In addition to the works listed below, Mr. Aharonián has composed some film scores and much incidental music for stage productions.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address (c/o Núcleo Música Nueva, Montevideo): nmnm@adinet.com.uy
Street address: Mr. Coriún Aharonián, Casilla de correo 1328, 11000 Montevideo, Uruguay
Telephone/fax: + 598 2336 1513
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
STAGE: Hecho 1 (estudio sobre el silencio) (music theatre work), 1966; Hecho 2 (en tres partes y en re) (music theatre work), 6 players (with 8 instruments), 6 tape recorders, paint brushes, 1966
ORCHESTRAL: Lorenzaccio, 9 soloists, 3 percussion, string orchestra, 1968; Mestizo, 1993; Una carta, small orchestra (15 players), 2001
CHAMBER MUSIC: Música para aluminios, aluminum pieces (3 players), tape, 1967; Música para tres, flute, violin, piano, 1968; Música para cinco, alto flute, French horn, trumpet, trombone, tom-toms, 1972; Digo, es un decir, 3 flutes, 3 oboes, 3 clarinets, trumpet, 2 double basses, 1979; Los cadadías, clarinet, trombone, cello, piano, 1980; En el sombrío bosque un canto un pájaro, any 9 or more players (with unconventional instruments), 1981; Gente, 10 players, 1990; Una canción, flute, clarinet, viola, cello, piano, 1998; Llueve sobre el Río de la Plata, guitar, 2000; Cachó la barreta, 6 percussion, 2004; ¿De qué estamos hablando?, bass clarinet (+ E-flat clarinet), bassoon, cello, 2006
CHORAL: Una estrella, esta estrella, nuestra estrella, small mixed chorus, guitar, double bass, piano, harpsichord, bandoneón, 1969
VOCAL: Dos canciones sobre poemas de Idea Vilariño, female popular voice, guitar, bandoneón, 1973
PIANO: Tres pequeñas piezas, 1966–73; ¿Y ahora?, 1984
ELECTROACOUSTIC: Que, tape, 1969; Homenaje a la flecha clavada en el pecho de Don Juan Díaz de Solís, tape, 1974; Gran tiempo, tape, 1974; ¡Salvad los niños!, tape, 1976; Esos silencios, tape, 1978; Apruebo el sol, tape, 1984; Secas las pilas de todos los timbres, tape, 1995
(Last updated on January 29, 2009)
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