Beatriz Lockhart (17 January 1944 – 23 November 2015) was an Uruguayan pianist, music educator and composer.
Life and career
Beatriz Lockhart was born in
Montevideo and studied composition at the Montevideo Conservatory and the Latin-American Center for Musical Studies of the Instituto Torcuato di Tella in
Buenos Aires
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from 1969 to 1970 with
Carlos Estrada
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and
Héctor Tosar
Héctor Alberto Tosar Errecart ( Montevideo, Uruguay
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.
She took a teaching position in 1974 at the National Conservatory in
Caracas,
Venezuela
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, then returned to Uruguay in 1998 to teach at the Escuela Universitaria de Música and at the Escuela Municipal de Música. She is noted as a specialist in contemporary tango.
Selected works
*''Joropo'' for clarinet quartet
*''Montevideo piece Number 3'' for orchestra
*''Merengue'' for clarinet quartet
References
External links
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1944 births
2015 deaths
Uruguayan people of Scottish descent
20th-century classical composers
Uruguayan music educators
Uruguayan women music educators
Uruguayan women classical composers
Uruguayan classical composers
Musicians from Montevideo
20th-century women composers
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