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Paraskevaídis, Graciela (b. April 1, 1940, Buenos Aires). Argentinean-Uruguayan composer of mostly chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works that have been performed throughout the Americas and in Asia and Europe; she is also active as a writer.
Prof. Paraskevaídis studied composition with Roberto García Morillo at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Buenos Aires and then attended courses with Gerardo Gandini, Iannis Xenakis and other composers at the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires in 1965–66, on a scholarship from the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (CLAEM). She completed her composition studies with Wolfgang Fortner at the Musikhochschule Freiburg/Breisgau from 1968–71, on a grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. She also attended Darmstadt in 1972.
Her honors include a residency as a guest of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (1984) and the Goethe Medal from the Goethe-Institut in Munich (1994, for her efforts on behalf of cultural approach among various peoples). She attended the First Symposium of Artists and Intellectuals of Greek Origin (1985), on an invitation from the government of Greece, and her compositions have received awards in Argentina (from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes and the Municipalidad de Buenos Aires), Germany (from the Akademie der Künste in Berlin) and Uruguay (from the Juventudes Musicales). Most recently, she received the Premio Morosoli de plata a trayectoria musical from the Fundación Lolita Rubial in Minas, Uruguay (2006).
As a writer, she has specialized in 20th-century Latin-American music since 1975 and her essays have been widely published, notably in the journals Pauta (Mexico) and MusikTexte (Germany), to which she is a regular collaborator. She has also written two books, La obra sinfónica de Eduardo Fabini (1992) and Luis Campodónico, compositor (1999), and translated Schoenbergs Zeichen by Jean-Jacques Dünki (2005, Monte Ávila Editores). She served as co-editor of World New Music Magazine, the yearbook of ISCM, from 1990–99 and has contributed to the dictionary Komponisten der Gegenwart (edited by Walter-Wolfgang Sparrer, edition text + kritik) since 1992.
Prof. Paraskevaídis is also active in other positions. She was especially active as an organizer for the permanent collective of the Cursos Latinoamericanos de Música Contemporánea (CLAMC) from 1975–89. She remains a member of the Núcleo Música Nueva de Montevideo and the Sociedad Uruguaya de Música Contemporánea and is a former member of the Núcleo Música Nueva de Buenos Aires and the Sociedad Argentina de Música Contemporánea. In addition, she co-founded with Max Nyffeler the website latinoamérica música in 2004 and has since served as its co-editor.
She has taught extensively in private and at the Universidad Nacional in Montevideo from 1985–92. She has also given lectures, seminars and workshops in Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Greece, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and Uruguay.
She has lived in Uruguay since 1975 and holds both Argentinean and Uruguayan citizenship.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: magmauno@adinet.com.uy
Street address: Prof. Graciela Paraskevaídis, Casilla de correo 1328, 11000 Montevideo, Uruguay
Website (latinoamérica música): http://www.latinoamerica-musica.net/
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
STAGE: Aphorismen (text by Karl Kraus), 2 speakers, piano, percussion, tape, 1969; Mozart (text by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), actor, ensemble, 1970–72
CHAMBER MUSIC: magma I, 4 French horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, tuba, 1965–67; magma II, 4 trombones, 1968; Trío, flute, clarinet, bassoon, 1969; mellonta tauta, accordion, 1970; magma III, flute, trombone, cello, piano, 1974; magma IV, string quartet, 1974; magma V, 4 kena (Andean flutes), 1977; todavía no, 3 flutes, 3 clarinets, 1979; magma VI, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, 1979; más fuerza tiene, clarinet, 1984; magma VII, 14 winds, 1984; dos piezas para pequeño conjunto, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, piano, claves, 1989; sendas, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, trumpet, trombone, piano, 1992; el nervio de arnold, guitar, 1992; 'algún sonido de la vida', 2 oboes, 1993; ta, flute, oboe, clarinet, piano, 1994; No quiero oír ya más campanas, 14 winds, 1995; dos piezas para oboe y piano, 1995; hacen así, 6 percussion, 1996; altibajos, 2 double basses, 1996; libres en el sonido presos en el sonido, flute (+ alto flute), clarinet (+ E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet), violin, cello, piano, 1997; suono sogno, violin, 1997; solos, alto flute, guitar, 1998; piezas de bolsillo, 4 percussion, 1999; ...Il remoto silenzio, cello, 2002; 'Soy de un país donde', French horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, 2002; ¿Y si fuera cierto?, alto flute, English horn, piano, 2003; y allá andará según se dice, 24 players (several each of: siku [Andean panpipes], pinkillo [Andean recorders], tarka [wooden Andean flutes]), claves (2 players), 2 wankara (Andean snare drums), 2004; tris, oboe, bassoon, double bass, 2005; ático, sopranino recorder, piccolo, 2006
CHORAL: La terra e la morte (text by Cesare Pavese), mixed chorus, 1968; 'libertà va cercando...' (text by Dante Alighieri), mixed chorus, 1969; E desidero solo colori (text by Cesare Pavese), female chorus, 1969; Die Hand voller Stunden (text by Paul Celan), 9 mixed voices, 1970; Schattenreich (text by Hans Magnus Enzensberger), 4 mixed voices, 1972; der Weg (text from the Old Testament), 9 mixed voices, brass ensemble, 1973; el grito en el cielo, mixed chorus, 1987; discordia, 9 mixed voices, 1998
VOCAL: Seis canciones españolas (text by Miguel Hernández), soprano, piano, 1968; Schatten (text by Karl Kraus), soprano, baritone, 1970; nada, soprano, 1993; pero están, soprano, flute, oboe, 1994; Aruaru, mezzo-soprano, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 2003
PIANO: un lado, otro lado, 1984; tres piezas infantiles, 1986; otra vez, 1994; en abril, 1996; ...a hombros del ruiseñor, 1997; contra la olvidación, 1998; dos piezas para piano, 2001
HARPSICHORD: réplica, 2006
ELECTROACOUSTIC: huauqui, tape, 1975; A entera revisación del público en general, tape, 1978–81
(Last updated on December 22, 2006)
