Olga Pozzi-Escot Zapata (born 1 October 1933) is a Peruvian-born American composer, music theorist, and faculty member at the

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Life

Pozzi Escot was born in

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, Peru. Her father, Marius Emmanuel Pozzi Escot, was a French professor at the University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru; her mother was Lucía María Zapata Hurtado. After living in Peru, she went to France. Back in Peru, between 1949 and 1953 she studied at the Academy of Music Sas-Rosay (Lima).Boenke, Heidi M. (ed.)
''Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog''
(p. 37). Published at Google Books website; retrieved 17 March 2016. At the end of 1953, she emigrated to the United States to attend

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, becoming a citizen three years later. Between 1954 and 1957 she studied at the

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(in

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), where she graduated with a degree in composition (1956) and Bachelor in Arts (1957). She is a graduate of the

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. She is author of ''The Poetics of Simple Mathematics in Music,'' co-author of ''Sonic Design: The Nature of Sound and Music'' and since 1980, Editor-in-Chief of the self-published music journal Sonus. She has written over thirty articles (mostly published in her own journal) developing and discussing the relationship between music and mathematics. Her works are recorded on

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, Neuma, Spectrum, Leo, Music & Arts and Centaur labels and published by Publication Contact International. Pozzi Escot resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her partner, composer and theorist Robert Cogan (1930–2021).

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Pozzi Escot interview
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