Viteri Luis Gerardo Guevara (* Quito, September 23 of 1930) is an Ecuadorian composer considered the link between generations of musicians and nationalists contemporary musical ideas. "composer addition, Guevara is also director of orchestra, chorus and pianist." Gerardo Guevara was a precocious musician. His father worked as a janitor at the National Conservatory of Music of Quito and is that of a little boy, Gary used to come to class silent dictation, suddenly shouted the right notes to older students and run for safety! At fifteen years old entered the kinds of writings of Luis H. Salgado . In 1952 is found in studying Guayaquil works Bartok and composition with Hungarian musician Jorge Raycki .
From 1959, with a grant from the Unesco , Guevara studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in École Normale de Musique de Paris where graduated as a conductor. He also studied musicology at the University of La Sorbonne . He lived in Paris for twelve years and returned in Ecuador in 1972 founded Central University Choir and in 1973 the SAYCE (society of authors and composers Ecuador)
was director of the National Symphony Orchestra (1974 - 75 ) and director of the National Conservatory of Music of Quito (1980 - 88) "institution in which he has been Professor of Music History of Ecuador."
nationalist He admits though his vision is broad, original and qualitative: contemporary techniques has been used so much that Robert Stevenson writes that "Guevara Viteri was inspired by European styles." Is it more appropriate to say to Béhague that "more advanced compositing techniques appear in several of the works of Guevara." Their catalog is large and numerous collaborations are written for countless magazines and newspapers. As a teacher, its incidence has been equally important. It is one of the greatest figures in Ecuadorian music.
Viteri Luis Gerardo Guevara (* Quito , September 23 of 1930) is an Ecuadorian composer considered the link between generations of musicians nationalist and contemporary musical ideas. " "Also a composer, Guevara is also director of orchestra, choir and pianist."
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