Graciela Paraskevaidis (1 April 1940 – 21 February 2017) was an

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writer and composer of

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ancestry who lived and worked in

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Life

Graciela Paraskevaidis was born in

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. She studied composition at the National Conservatory in Buenos Aires with

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and at the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella with

Gerardo Gandini Gerardo Gandini (Buenos Aires (Argentina), October 16, 1936 – Buenos Aires, March 22, 2013) was a pianist, composer, and music director, who became one of the most relevant figures of Argentine New Music of the second half of the 20th century. H ...

and

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from 1965-66 with a scholarship from the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (CLAEM). She continued her studies at the Musikhochschule Freiburg/Breisgau with

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from 1968-71 with a grant from the

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. She studied at

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in 1972. After completing her studies, Parakevaidis took a position at the Universidad Nacional in

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where she taught from 1985–92 and also worked as a composer. Her works have been performed internationally in

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and the

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. She has written two books ''La obra sinfónica de Eduardo Fabini'' published in 1992 and ''Luis Campodónico, compositor'' published in 1999, and a number of articles on 20th-century Latin-American music published in the journals ''Pauta'',

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, and ''MusikTexte'', Germany. She published a translation of ''Schoenbergs Zeichen'' by Jean-Jacques Dünki in 2005. Paraskevaídis served as co-editor of ''World New Music Magazine'' and the yearbook of

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. She was an organizer of the Latin American Contemporary Music Courses (CLAMC) from 1975-89. With Max Nyffeler, she co-founded the website ''latinoamérica música'' in 2004 and has served co-editor. She holds both Argentinean and Uruguayan citizenship, and has lived in Uruguay since 1975. She was married to musicologist Coriún Aharonián.

Honors and awards

*Residency at Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the

(1984) *

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from the Goethe-Institut in

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(1994) *Attended the First Symposium of Artists and Intellectuals of Greek Origin (1985) on an invitation from the Government of Greece *Award from the Argentine National Endowment for the Arts *Award from the City of Buenos Aires *Award from the Akademie der Künste in Berlin *Award from the Young Musicians of Uruguay *Morosoli Silver Award (Morosoli) from the Fundación Lolita Rubial in Minas, Uruguay (2006)

Works

Paraskevaídis composes mostly for chamber ensemble, choral, vocal, and piano performance. Selected works include: *''Aphorismen''(text by Karl Kraus), 2 speakers, piano, percussion, tape, 1969 *''Mozart'' (text by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), actor, ensemble, 1970–72 *''magma I'', 4 French horns, 2 Trumpets, 2 trombones, tuba, 1965-67 *''magma II'', 4 trombones, 1968 *''Trio'', 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, 1997 *''La terra e la morte'' (text by Cesare Pavese), mixed chorus, 1968 *''libertà goes by ...'' (Text by Dante Alighieri), mixed chorus, 1969 *''E Desidero only 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 *''the outcry'', mixed chorus, 1987 *''discord'', 9 mixed voices, 1998 *''replication'', harpsichord, 2006 *''huauqui'', tape, 1975 *''A entera revisación del público en general'', tape, 1978–81

References

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