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Cáceres, German (b. July 9, 1954, San Salvador). Salvadoran composer of mostly orchestral, chamber, vocal, and piano works that have been performed throughout the Americas and in Europe; he is also active as a conductor.
Dr. Cáceres studied counterpoint, harmony and musical forms privately with Esteban Servellón from 1969-71 and Ion Cubicec from 1971-73 and conducting privately with Ricardo del Carmen in 1978-79 and Alejandro Muñoz Ciudad Real in 1979-80. He studied chamber music and oboe with Ronald Roseman and composition with David Diamond and Stanley Wolfe at the Juilliard School of Music from 1973-78, where he earned both his BMus and MMus, and studied composition privately with Julián Orbón and conducting with José Serebrier while in New York. He finished his studies with Jonathan D. Kramer at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music from 1987-89 and there earned his DMA.
Among his many honors are the Guggenheim Fellowship (1981), the Premio Nacional de Cultura (1982), the Internationaler Gertrud-Ramdohr-Preis in Hamburg (1986), four grants from Meet the Composer (1986-87, 1990, 1994), the Fulbright Foundation Fellowship (1987-89), and the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (1991). More recently, he received the Premio XX Siglo at the Tribuna de la Música Latinoamericana in Argentina (1997, for Fantasía sobre una Cadencia de Gesualdo) and was named Músico del Año by the Unión de Artistas y Escritores Salvadoreños (1999). In addition, he served as honorary president of the string festival in Gosau/Dachstein in Austria (1987) and represented El Salvador at the Foro Interamericano de Directores de Orquesta in Caracas (1988).
He was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France (1992), a Compositor y Director de Orquesta Distinguido de El Salvador by the congress of El Salvador (1999) and an artist of the Ordem do Rio Branco by the government of Brazil (1999). He is a member of the Ateneo de El Salvador, the Centro Cultural Salvadoreño, the Colegio de Compositores Latinoamericanos de Música de Arte in Mexico, the Fundación Julia Díaz, the Instituto Bolivariano, the Instituto Masferreriano, and the Instituto Sanmartiniano. In addition, he has been an honorary member of the Research Board of Advisors of the American Biographical Institute since 1999.
His works have been performed at numerous major festivals in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Czech Republic, El Salvador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Uruguay, the USA, and Venezuela. A portrait concert was given at California State University at Northridge in 2001.
Dr. Cáceres is also active in other positions. He founded the Festival de Música Contemporánea de El Salvador in 1996 and has since served as its music director. He also served as director of the program Música del nuestro tiempo on Radio Clásica in El Salvador from 1997-99. As a writer, he has written numerous articles about Latin-American music and other topics.
As a conductor, he served as conductor of the Orquesta de Cámara de El Salvador from 1979-83 and as music director and principal conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica de El Salvador from 1985-99 and has again served as its music director and principal conductor since 2002. He has guest-conducted ensembles and orchestras in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Uruguay, the USA, and Venezuela.
He taught music history at the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas in San Salvador from 1993-2002 and served as Director del Arte y Cultura at the Universidad de El Salvador from 2000-02. He lectured at California State University at Northridge and the University of Southern California at Los Angeles in 2001.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: gcaceresbuitrago@hotmail.com
Street address: Dr. German Cáceres, Apartado Postal 2979, Correo Central, San Salvador, El Salvador
Telephone: 503 221 2373
Cellular phone: 503 760 6103
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
STAGE: Bálsamo (ballet, scenario by Dario Dossier), orchestra, 1978; El Cristo Negro (3 act opera, libretto by Hugo Lindo), 1998
ORCHESTRAL: Yulcuicat, 1973; Concierto, harp, orchestra, 1977; Concierto para Cuerdas, string orchestra, 1979; Concierto, piano, orchestra, 1981; Sinfonía, 1983; Concierto, small orchestra (12 winds, 11 brass), 1988; Diferencias, 1988; Concierto, violin, orchestra, 1989; Deploración (in memoriam Julián Orbón), 1993; Fanfarria a San Salvador, 12 brass, 1996; Tiento I, small orchestra, 1996; Concierto No. 1, guitar, orchestra, 2000; Tiento VII, string orchestra, 2000; Concierto No. 2, guitar, string orchestra, 2001; Concierto No. 3, guitar, orchestra, 2001; Doble Concierto, violin, cello, orchestra, 2001; Lacónicas II, 2002
CHAMBER MUSIC: Cuarteto para cuerdas No. 1, string quartet, 1974; Cuarteto para cuerdas No. 2, string quartet, 1976; Concierto de Cámara No. 1, flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn, bassoon, piano, 1979; Sonata No. 1, violin, piano, 1980; Concierto, viola, ensemble (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, string quartet, double bass), 1980; Sonatina, guitar, 1981; Sonata, viola, piano, 1982; Sonata, oboe, cello, piano, 1983; Tres Piezas, bass clarinet, harp, vibraphone, 1987; Cinco Deploraciones, flute, 1988; Cuatro Piezas, flute, bassoon, 1988; Sonata No. 2, violin, piano, 1988; Concierto de Cámara No. 2, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, string quartet, double bass, piano, 1990; Trío, violin, cello, piano, 1991; Partitas, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, cello, harpsichord, 1992; Cuatro Piezas, violin, 1993; Concierto de Cámara No. 3, 2 violins, cello, harpsichord, 1994; Fantasía sobre una Cadencia de Gesualdo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 French horns, 1994; Cuarteto para cuerdas No. 3, string quartet, 1996; Tiento II, clarinet, 1997; Tiento III, cello, 1997; Ocho Variaciones sobre un Conjunto de Ocho Notas, guitar, 1997; Tiento IV, violin, 1999; Tiento V, oboe, 2000; Tiento VIII, guitar, 2001; Tiento IX, violin, cello, piano, 2003; Tiento X, flute, piano, 2003
CHORAL: Tres Cantos (text by Hugo Lindo), mixed chorus, 1981; Cantata (text by Cristóbal Humberto Ibarra), mixed chorus, orchestra, 1992; Villancico del Calendario (text by Álvaro Menéndez Leal), mixed chorus, 1996
VOCAL: Tres Canciones (text by Arnaldo Sepúlveda), soprano, string quartet, 1975; Estáncias (text by Francisco Gavidia), soprano, orchestra, 1979; Tres Canciones Epigramáticas (text by Ernesto Cardenal), soprano, piano, 1979; Cuatro Cantos (text by Álvaro Menéndez Leal), soprano, piano, 1981; Premisas (cantata, text by Arnaldo Sepúlveda), soprano, string quartet, 1982; Cantos de Fácil Palabra (text by Hugo Lindo), soprano, flute, harpsichord, 1985; Tres Canciones (texts by Seneca, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Pedro Geoffroy Rivas), soprano, orchestra, 1988; Cantos (texts by Gracilazo de la Vega, Garcí Sánchez de Badajoz), soprano, orchestra, 1990; Tres Canciones (text by Francisco Morales Eró), soprano, piano, 1995; El Señor de la Casa del Tiempo (text by Ricardo Lindo), soprano, piano, 1996; Lo que dice el Caracol (text by Salarrué), soprano, orchestra, 1997; Siete Canciones (text by Mariana Sansón Argüello), soprano, piano, 1999; Cuatro Canciones (text by Rafael Rodríguez Díaz), soprano, piano, 1999; Las Monedas bajo la Lluvia (text by Ricardo Lindo), voice, guitar, 1999
PIANO: Sonata, 1984; Tres Estudios sobre el Silencio, 1989; Lacónicas, 1993; Tiento VI, 2000; Tres Piezas, 2002
(Last updated on July 10, 2003)
