Alicia Terzian is an Argentine conductor, musicologist and composer

Composer

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 of Armenian

Armenians

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 descent.

Biography

Alicia Terzian was born in Córdoba

Córdoba, Argentina

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. She studied at the National Conservatory of Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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 under Alberto Ginastera

Alberto Ginastera

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, Gilardo Gilardi

Gilardo Gilardi

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, Roberto García Morillo

Roberto Garcia Morillo

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 and Floro Ugarte. She received a degree in piano in 1954 and a degree in composition in 1958. In 1962 she continued her studies in electronic music and medieval Armenian church music with Father Leoncio Dayan at the Mekhitarist Monastery of San Lazzaro degli Armeni

San Lazzaro degli Armeni

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, Venice

Venice

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.

After completing her studies, Terzian taught music in Argentina

Argentina

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 at the National Conservatory, the Municipal Conservatory of Buenos Aires, the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and at the Art Institute of the Teatro Colón. She founded the Fundación Encuentros Internacionales de Música Contemporánea (EIMC) festival in 1968 and the Grupo Encuentros in 1979. Terzian has served as a member of the Music Council of UNESCO

UNESCO

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, is Vice President of the International Women's Council of UNESCO, Vice-President of the Argentine Composers Association, general secretary of the Argentine Society for Musicology, founder of the Latin-American Music Council.

Honors and awards

• First Prize, Municipality of Buenos Laires City (1964)
• Francisco Solano Award (1968)
• Argentine Outstanding Young Musicians Prize (1970)
• National Fund for the Arts Prize (1970)
• First National Prize of Music (1982)
• Gomidas International Prize (1983)
• Academic Palms Medal, Government of France
• Saint Sahak and Saint Mesrop Medals from Pope Vasken I of the Armenian Church (1992)
• Alberto de Castilla Medal of Colombia (1994)
• Mozart Medal, International Music Council (1995)

Works

Selected works include:

• Concierto for orchestra and violin, 1955
• Movimiento Sinfonico, 1956
• Primera Sinfonía, 1957
• Oración de Jimena aria for soprano and orchestra, 1957
• Escena lírica for soprano, tenor, bass and orchestra, 1957
• Recitativo Dramático del Mensajero for bass and orchestra, 1957
• Tres Madrigals for women's choir a cappella, 1958
• Cantata de la tarde, 1958
• Introducción y cantico de primavera, 1958
• Movimientos contra Auntie I, 1964
• Hacia la luz, ballet, 1965
• Padre Nuestro y Ave Maria for mixed choir a cappella, 1966
• Movimientos, ballet, 1968
• Correspondencias, 1969
• Orquesta de cuerdas y Proâgon Violín, 1969–70
• Carmen Criaturalisfor horn, vibraphone and orchestra 1969-72
• Akhtamar, ballet, 1979
• El Dr. Brecht in the Colon Theatre, Music Theatre, 1981
• Y Cuya luz como la profunda oscuridad it for chamber orchestra, 1982
• Bertoldt Brecht at the Salón Dorado, musical theater, 1982–83
• Juana, Reina de Castilla y Aragón, hija de los Reyes Católicos, ballet, 1983
• Off The Edge ... for baritone solo, string orchestra and tam-tam, 1992–93
• Les yeux Fertiles for mezzo-soprano, chamber orchestra and percussion, 1998