member of a large poor family made up of fourteen siblings who lived in the same building of the Conservatory, on Basin Street and Chile. Studied in primary Cebollar Christian Brothers where his good voice, Brother Alberto, sixth grade teacher, Choir took him to school and he discovered the beauty of music. Sing throughout the year at Mass, was a soloist in the Christmas party and was responsible for the work to dismiss the academic year 1942.
The 43 went to secondary school in the private school night "Lincoln" was founded by Emilio Uscátegui and Gonzalo Rubio Orbe, but left shortly after it was missing a lot by having to work as little piano in various bands.
that year chose to attend the National Conservatory of Music, whose president Sixto Duran Mary had told him that it would cost nothing, it had granted a special scholarship so he could study oboe, violin and piano. There was to master Luis Humberto Salgado Harmony and formed the group with brothers Jorge and Jose Salgado, Enrique Espin Yepez, Carlos Bonilla and Claudio Arízaga.
Mejia, 45 entered but did not finish the year. Worked playing piano at parties with the band of Luis Aníbal Farm S /. 12 the night and wrote music halls and popular boleros of nature, however, was never bohemian or policyholder.
The professor ended 48 Belisario Peña Ponce called several of his students and gave them copies of a poem by Remigio Romero y Cordero musicalicen for it. The issue turned on the Hymn to the National Census ... everyone did his job and was chosen for the sheet music for piano and voice Guevara, who edited the Department of Statistics and Census.
The 50 won First Prize at the Conservatoire national with a piano piece called "Inspiration." That year he moved to Guayaquil, hired by Milo Blacio, father of Henry, manager of the famous brothers Blacio Orchestra. (1)
earned for each dance and lived a percentage in a rented room in the house of the Manager of the Costa Rica Swing Boys, however, 52, left all that, decided to do music seriously, he enrolled at the Conservatorio Antonio Neumane and met its director, Jorge Raycki Hungarian master.
"I had my musical training but through Raycki studied the works of Bela Bartock and that greatly influenced my compositional ideas, because to study their methods found his concept of musical nationalism, hence, between 1952, 57, studied the folklore of Ecuador as assistant Raycki in the Choir of the Conservatory. 54 and at the request of Carlos Zevallos Menéndez, president of Guayas core of the House of Ecuadorian Culture, composed for piano La Tunda, on a text by Adalberto Ortiz. With the S /. I paid 2400 I married Nancy Awad Adoum. The 55 Raycki helped organize several composition competitions at national level to provide the choral repertoire, winning the contest sanjuanito Guayaquil with my people. He also composed two corridors, one for Chorus and Orchestra one for
Meanwhile, to help financially, kept groups of their own popular music and even worked at night and during a long season in the dining room of the Hotel Humboldt International S /. 3,000 a month.
composed the Hall, 57 "Despedida" (2) that recorded in the record label and managed Ifesa popular Ecuadorian eighteen pieces performed by the String Quartet of the House of Culture Core Guayas who ran the maestro José Barniol. He also studied French at the Alliance Française he had applied for a grant from UNESCO at the Sorbonne in Paris, featuring the International Committee consideration of his ballet "Yaguar Shungo.
between 57 and 58 the Ballet premiered at the theater Olmedo Guayaquil and Quito Sucre, (3) based on poems of Jorge Carrera Andrade, Jorge Enrique Adoum and Alejandro Velasco Mejia among others.
composed for piano, 58 the Yumbo "Apanny Shungo," the "Albaz No. V, two dancers, a" Yaraví "a" Yumbo "nameless and" My sanjuanito. "Mid- that year he traveled to Quito for several processing your
In March he traveled to Paris with his wife and son to study with the famous teacher Nadia Boulanger, who had to be masters with great composers, especially Americans, the likes of Aarom Koplan. With her studied between 59 and 62 continuously, then intermittently for up to 65 seasons. Guevara says of her: "It was broad in his knowledge and I could identify the characteristics Andean music and traditional rhythms."
Through Professor Boulanger began to forge new ideas and find various forms of composition as reflected in his subsequent works, in the style distinctly Andean.
composed in Paris in 1960 "Geography" with texts by Adoum and "Land" with poems by Carrera Andrade, both for baritone and piano.
ran in Fontainebleau during the summer season the First String Quartet, with a large group of U.S. critics and connoisseurs.
64 Between 1960 and wrote three songs to be sung by baritone accompanied by the piano with lyrics by Carrera Andrade, that premiered in 1964 during a special hearing at the Unesco Palace.
, 61 began to make a living working with various bands on the weekends. During the summer he conducted at the Bath Spa in the south of England, the Symphony Orchestra who played variations of "Hail, Hail Lady" with the presence of Yehudi Menuhin and Nadia Boulanger among the performers.
, 62 was used in the Recherche de la ORTF. followed a course identifies and Electro Acoustic music and composed "The Planetary Man" for baritone and piano, based on the famous poem by Carrera Andrade, was premiered at a hearing at the Unesco Palace.
, 63 Preludes for piano composed three so-called "Recitative" "Albaz" and "sanjuanito" which debuted 64 on the Unesco.
between 63 and 64 wrote the music for his famous Cantata for baritone, orchestra and choir and a second String Quartet consists of four movements, namely: 1) leakage, 2) sanjuanito, 3 ) Perpetual and 4) Yumbo, which appeared in the French Radio and Television in 1968.
Guayaquil, 65 sent their choirs "Atahualpa" and "Indians" who triumphed in the Choral Works Contest sponsored by the Conservatory Antonio Neumane.
Between 1965 and 68 composed five tunes on texts of the great English poet Federico García Lorca entitled: 1) "If I die, leave the balcony open," 2) "Afternoon." 3) Every Song "4)" Spring ", 5)" Ballad of the little square "which premiered in Brazil in 1970.
Hall also composed "You go with something of mine," the "Dancing destination" for pingullo, panpipes, harp, drums, two guitars, two voices. Choir, alto soloist, as well as the "Dancer of Absence" and "Yaraví of exile", the last three texts by his brother Adoum. The sanjuanito "Tuyallay" on traditional text and instruments also Quichua Indians.
, 68 received the Diploma of Extended musicologist at the School of Musicology at the Sorbonne. About 69 participated and directed many recordings in Paris and the provinces, especially with young composers.
, 70 wrote "isms" for violin, viola, cello, oboe, clarinet and piano in six stages: 1) "Impressionism ', 2)" Expressionism ", 3)" Pointillism ", 4) "neoclassical" 5) "Latin American Realism", and 6) "Abstract Concrete", and three exercises for piano which premiered in Leipzig's famous Uruguayan pianist Susan Frugone.
That year started an opera, not yet concluded, entitled "The House of what people think", which has written the overture, the Aria and Aria's crazy Crispin, who sang the sonrano Beatriz Parra and Hernan Tamayo under 73.
The 71 was invited to Quito by the National Symphony Orchestra of Ecuador and agreed that for those months was offered a contract from the Central University to found and direct their choir. Then he felt that his presence was needed to revitalize our music. His wife said he was giving up a brilliant career in France for an uncertain future in a small country where the population can not read music and may not understand their work as not agreed on the point, advented separation, as she preferred to stay with her son in Paris before venturing into Quito. The divorce would occur three years later.
Shortly after his arrival Guevara led the National Symphony and began working in the Choir of the House of Ecuadorian Culture, a national music concert that included his Cantata for Choir and Orchestra entitled reciters Notebooks of the Earth ", with texts by Adoum and using principles of musique concrete and pre-recorded electronics. The concert was described as the cultural event of the year, not only for its novelty but also for its beautiful structure.
In 1972 he composed the Suite "Ecuador" for orchestra, which won the Second Prize of the Municipality of Quito and was released on 73 in the theater Sucre. It so happened that the Minister of Education restructured the National Symphony Orchestra and was appointed Acting Director it.
composed the Suite, 76 entitled" twentieth-century painters Gallery Ecuador "for orchestra, which won the First Prize in the Maria Sixto Duran organized by the Municipality of Quito a year later. It combined two languages, the nationalist and universal.
, 77 composed the sanjuanitos "The Bun" with text by Eloy Proaño and "Summer Solstice", 78 three tunes for piano, soprano and Chamber Orchestra with Ana María Iza poetry, entitled 1) "I was going to run away," 2) "Hall" and 3) "Here I stand and scream" you were meant for the second straight for the Prize Municipality of Quito. Coro also a leaflet for three times referred: 1) "Twenty Avenida de Mayo", 2) "Avenida Amazonas" and 3) "Central University", a Marcha Indígena for Chorus with anonymous text "Jatarichi" and chaired the General Assembly Pan-American Council CISAG of Quito.
, 79, at the request of the Provincial Council, composed the music of the anthem of the province of Pichincha, with text by Felix Silva, for choir and piano. On July 80 he was appointed Director of the National Conservatory and wrote several Cantos School: 1) "Mother" with text by Maria Paulina Landazuri, 2) "Round Moon," 3) "Pajarito Cantor" with text by Ramiro Jiménez, 4) "Round the Vowels", 5) "Round of the Members for Peace" (the latter two with music and lyrics from her), 6) "Little Rain," with text yaraví Piedad Gomez, 7) "Singing" sanjuanito with Nixon text Garcia, 8) Poem for Primary Teacher "Dancing with text by Ramiro Jiménez and 9)" Come master, sanjuanito. The whole unit stores, has poetry and love. The July 17 debut in its Sucre "Triptych oral" and was honored by the Society of Mexican Writers SOGEM.
In 1980 he traveled with the soprano and baritone Beatriz Parra Galo Cárdenas, for two months, eighteen different cities of the USSR. The 81 member of the American Council of Music Education of the OAS headquarters in Washington and wrote the plays "Jaguay" with traditional poetry, 2) "Fighting poetic text of Carrera Andrade for baritone and piano, 3)" Autumn "aisle singing and piano and lyrics by Carrera Andrade, recorded these last two in FEDISCOS a year later and 4) "The Grapefruit and Lemon Albaz with Leonardo Páez text. In December he won with the Central University Choir Second Prizes in the universal polyphonic music and popular music in the Third International Choral Competition held in Ibague, Colombia.
Albaz, 82 composed the "Fiesta" for piano, the work "Dialogues" (Traditional - universal) dedicated to the Ecuadorian flutist Luciano Carrera, for Flute and Piano in three stages: 1) "Adagio" 2) "tune" and 3) "Yumbo" and 83 recorded a piece for guitar "Recitative and Dance."
Between 1984 and 85 was a member of Jury Composition promoted by the Instituto Latinoamericano de Estudios Musicales Vicente Emilio Sojo "in Caracas.
On May 85 he wrote the Ecuadorian Suite in three movements (Albaz, slow and sanjuanito) for flute and piano, and three songs for soprano and piano, with texts by Teresa León de Noboa, titled: 1 ) "Back peasant" 2) "Chimborazo and the moon" and 3) "Here we are."
the 85 to 86 made up a notebook for students of piano pedagogy at the media with the following parts: 1) "Hall in A Minor", 2) "Hall in D Minor", 3) " Scarecrow "(composed in 1955) 4)" Danzante ", 5)" San Juan ", 6)" Aire Tipico ", 7)" tune "(composed in 1966 and 8)" Yapanuy Shungo (yumbo composed in 1958).
, 87, for soprano, baritone and orchestra, came his "Huayra Shina" (Spirit morocho) which has two motions: 1) "Dancing" and 2) "Yambo" a Cantata Long Baritone and Symphony Orchestra entitled "Et in terra Pax Hommibus" with poetry Adoum.
has written many essays and articles have appeared in national music magazines Diners, Mirror, Opus, single words, Equinox and Culture and has worked in the Mexico City daily El Comercio.
Her medium height, handsome face, cinnamon, black hair and eyes. so courteous and even courtly, very pleasant treatment. His influence has been instrumental in the musical taste of Ecuador in the second half of the twentieth century.
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