Doris Magaly Ruiz Lastres (born 1941) is a Cuban musician and composer. Her compositions have been performed at a number of international music festivals.

Life

Magaly Ruiz was born in Santa Clara, Cuba, in 1941. In 1981, she graduated with a degree in Composition from the Instituto Superior de Arte de La Habana, where she studied with Harold Gramatges, César Pérez Sentenat, José Ardévol, Félix Guerrero, Alfredo Diez Nieto, Dolores Torres and Roberto Valera.

Works

Ruiz' curriculum is published in prestigious dictionaries such as The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and Diccionario Iberoamericano de la Música. Several of her compositions are included as part of the curriculum of the leading music education institutions in

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, among them, the Conservatorio Amadeo Roldán, the Instituto Superior de Arte de La Habana, the Instituto Superior Pedagógico Enrique José Varona and Conservatorio Alejandro Garcia Caturla. Her compositions have been performed at many festivals such as the International Musical Festival, Festival de La Habana, Festival Boleros de Oro, International Festival of Contemporary Music, the International Festival Donne in Musica in Fiuggi, Italy and the Festival Sounds of Americas,

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. She has received the First Award in the music contests Concurso "La Edad de Oro", Concurso de la Dirección Nacional de Enseñanza Artística, Concurso Amadeo Roldán and the Concurso de la " Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba". She has also been awarded several medals and honours, among them The Medalla por la Educación Cubana, Medalla al Mérito Pedagógico, Medalla José Tey, Distinción Especial of the Cuban Ministry of Education, and the of the Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba to the total created work of a composer.

Catalogue Symphonic Music

Symphonic Music An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments: * String instruments, such as the violin, viola, cello, a ...

* Tres piezas para pequeña orquesta, 1977 * Estructura tritemática para orquesta sinfónica, 1977 * Concierto para oboe y orquesta, 1979 * Tres ambientes sonoros, 1981

Chamber Music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of Musical instrument, instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a Great chamber, palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music ...

* Trío, 1976 * Sonata para chelo y piano, 1977 * Juegos con metales, 1977 * Movimientos para cuarteto de cuerdas No. 1, 1978 * Canción para un amigo, saxofón, contralto y piano, 1978. * Tres piezas cubanas, violín y piano, 1978 * Movimiento para cuarteto de cuerdas No. 2, 1980 * Variaciones en habanera, para oboe y piano, 1983 * Variaciones en habanera, versión para flauta y piano, 1995 * Tres piezas, trombón y piano, 1994 * Fantasía, violín y piano, 1994 * Yugo y Estrella, cuarteto de cuerdas, 1995 * Dos para tres, flauta y piano, 1995 * Tres piezas cubanas, flauta y piano, 1995 * Cuasi

Danzón Danzón is the official genre and dance of Cuba.Urfé, Odilio 1965. ''El danzón''. La Habana. It is also an active musical form in USA and Puerto Rico. Written in time, the danzón is a slow, formal partner dance, requiring set footwork ...

, trombón y piano, 1996 * Dos piezas cubanas para clarinete, 1997 *

, para cello y piano, 1998 * Tema con variaciones para trombón 1998 *

para saxofón tenor, 1998 * Habanera, para guitarra, 1998 * Dos piezas para clarinete, 1998

Choir A choir ( ), also known as a chorale or chorus (from Latin ''chorus'', meaning 'a dance in a circle') is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform or in other words ...

* Altura y pelos, coro mixto, texto: César Vallejo, 1976 * Al oído de una muchacha, texto: García Lorca, coro mixto, 1976 * Canción para dos pueblos ( habanera y guajira), coro mixto,1994 * A Ili, coro femenino, 1995 * A Glaimí (cinco piezas), coro infantil, 1996

Piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

* Tres preludios para piano, 1978 * Tres estudios cubanos para piano, 1980 * Estudios cubanos del 4 al 12, 1978 * Pequeñas piezas cubanas, 1988 * Piezas a cuatro manos (primera serie), 1990 * Piezas a cuatro manos (segunda serie), 1994 * Estudio en

mambo Mambo most often refers to: *Mambo (music), a Cuban musical form *Mambo (dance), a dance corresponding to mambo music Mambo may also refer to: Music * Mambo section, a section in arrangements of some types of Afro-Caribbean music, particul ...

No. 13, 1994 * 20 Miniaturas cubanas para piano, 1995

Voice The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice frequency is specifically a part of human sound produ ...

and

* Pueblo entre lomas ( guajira), 1966 * A

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, (canción), 1978 * Dos canciones para niños: Abuelita, Trota que trota mi caballito, 1984 * Tríptico Homenaje: Te recuerdo en un canto, Mi mariposa, Esa cabeza blanca,

mezzo-soprano A mezzo-soprano (, ), or mezzo ( ), is a type of classical music, classical female singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A bel ...

y piano, 1985 * Corazón no me traiciones más,

bolero Bolero is a genre of song which originated in eastern Cuba in the late 19th century as part of the trova tradition. Unrelated to the older Spanish dance of the same name, bolero is characterized by sophisticated lyrics dealing with love. It h ...

, 1994 * Cómo te quiero,

, 1994 * Con tu piel y con tu cuerpo,

, 1995 * Te ha besado, 1998

References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20100422135042/http://www.magalyruiz.org/ * http://www.americancomposers.org/cubabios.htm#RUIZ {{DEFAULTSORT:Ruiz, Magaly 1941 births Living people 20th-century Cuban classical composers Cuban women classical composers 20th-century women composers