Life

Beatriz Ferreyra was born in Cordoba

Córdoba, Argentina

Córdoba is a city located near the geographical center of Argentina, in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas on the Suquía River, about northwest of Buenos Aires. It is the capital of Córdoba Province. Córdoba is the second-largest city in Argentina after the federal capital Buenos Aires, with...

, Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

, and studied piano with Celia Bronstein in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

. She continued her study of music with Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger was a French composer, conductor and teacher who taught many composers and performers of the 20th century.From a musical family, she achieved early honours as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but believing that her talent as a composer was inferior to that of her younger...

 in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, and Edgardo Canton, Earle Brown

Earle Brown

Earle Brown was an American composer who established his own formal and notational systems...

 and Gyorgy Ligeti

György Ligeti

György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...

 in Germany

Germany

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In 1963 she took a position in the research department of the Office de Radiodiffusion Television Francaise (ORTF), working with the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) directed by Pierre Schaeffer

Pierre Schaeffer

Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acoustician of the 20th century. His innovative work in both the sciences —particularly communications and acoustics— and the various arts of music, literature and radio presentation after the end...

. She assisted with Henri Chiarucci's and Guy Reibel

Guy Reibel

Guy Reibel is an electronic or acousmatic composer.Made his musical studies at the Conservatoire de Paris.Trained under Olivier Messiaen...

's Rapport entre la hauteur et la fondamentale d'un son musical, published in 1966 in Revue Internationale d'Audiologie and Pierre Schaeffer's Solfage de l'Objet Sonore. During this time she also lectured at the Conservatoire National Superierur de Musique de Paris. She worked with Bernard Baschet and his Structures Sonores in 1970, and served residencies in electronic music with Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

in 1976 and in 1998.

Works

Ferreyra has composed for music therapy, events, ballets and film soundtracks. Selected works include:

• Canto del Loco (1974)
• Cantos de antes (2002)
• Dans un point infini
• Impasse (2008) with Inés Wickmann
• Les larmes de l’inconnu (2011)
• Marche, quitte et va (2008) with Christine Groult
• Médisances (1968)
• Mer d’Azov, étude aux itérations (1963)
• L’art de l’étude (2006)
• L’orviétan (1970)
• La rivière des oiseaux (2003)
• Petit Poucet magazine (1985)
• Ríos del sueno (1998–2000)• Río de los pájaros • Río de los pájaros escondidos • Río de los *pájaros azules
• La rivière des oiseaux (2003)
• Siesta Blanca (1972)
• Souffle d’un petit Dieu distrait (1987)
• Sourire de l’ange (2006) with Christine Groult
• La condition captive (2006)
• The UFO Forest (1986)
• Vivencias (2001)

Her works have been issued on CD, including:

• Petit Poucet Magazine (CD) Le Chant Du Monde 1998
• La Rivière des oiseaux(CD) Motus 2003