Jacqueline Nova
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Jacqueline Nova Sondag was a Colombian
musician, author and composer.
, Belgium
. Her family later moved to Bucaramanga
, Colombia, and then in 1955 to Bogotá
. Nova began studying piano as a child and in 1958 was admitted to the National Conservatory of Music National University. She appeared in performances at the Conservatory as a soloist and accompanist and studied with Fabio González Zuleta and with Blas Emilio Atehortua for contemporary music. In 1967 she graduated with a Masters in composition and traveled to Buenos Aires on a scholarship from the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella for further studies in composition. There she studied with Luigi Nono
, Alberto Ginastera
, Gerardo Gandini, Kröpfl Francisco and others.
Nova's work has been played by orchestras including Venezuela Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of Colombia, Washington National Symphony Orchestra, First Latin American Music Festival, the Third Annual Symposium of American Music in Virginia, USA. Her works have been performed in Venezuela
, Panama
, Spain
, Brazil
, USA, Argentina
, Uruguay
, Dominican Republic
, France
, Germany
and Austria
.
Nova's work has been issued through media including radio, publications, film, conferences and concerts. In 1970 she conducted a lecture and concert for the Conference on Electronic Music at the Instituto Colombo-Alemán and also at the V Music Festival in Medellín
. She wrote "The Wonderful World of Machinery" for the magazine Bogota Nova No. 4 in 1966, and "Reasonable Orders Conscious and Unconscious" in 1967 and "An Aberrant Phenomenon" for the newspaper El Espectador in 1969.
Between 1969 and 1970, Nova directed Asimetrías, a Radiodifusora Nacional radio series which presented 22 sessions of new music works and analysis. In 1970 she established the New Music Group to perform works by living composers, with special emphasis on Latin America, but because of her health, the ensemble had limited engagements. Nova died 13 June 1975 in Bogotá from bone cancer.
projects. Selected works include:
Colombian people
Colombian people are from a multiethnic Spanish speaking nation in South America called Colombia. Colombians are predominantly Roman Catholic and are a mixture of Europeans, Africans, and Amerindians.-Demography:...
musician, author and composer.
Biography
Jacqueline Nova Sondag was born 6 January 1935, in GhentGhent
Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...
, Belgium
Belgium
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. Her family later moved to Bucaramanga
Bucaramanga
Bucaramanga is a Colombian city, and capital city of the department of Santander, Colombia. Bucaramanga has the fifth largest city economy and sixth largest population in Colombia, with 1,212,656 people in its metropolitan area...
, Colombia, and then in 1955 to Bogotá
Bogotá
Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...
. Nova began studying piano as a child and in 1958 was admitted to the National Conservatory of Music National University. She appeared in performances at the Conservatory as a soloist and accompanist and studied with Fabio González Zuleta and with Blas Emilio Atehortua for contemporary music. In 1967 she graduated with a Masters in composition and traveled to Buenos Aires on a scholarship from the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella for further studies in composition. There she studied with Luigi Nono
Luigi Nono
Luigi Nono was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music and remains one of the most prominent composers of the 20th century.- Early years :Born in Venice, he was a member of a wealthy artistic family, and his grandfather was a notable painter...
, Alberto Ginastera
Alberto Ginastera
Alberto Evaristo Ginastera was an Argentine composer of classical music. He is considered one of the most important Latin American classical composers.- Biography :...
, Gerardo Gandini, Kröpfl Francisco and others.
Nova's work has been played by orchestras including Venezuela Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of Colombia, Washington National Symphony Orchestra, First Latin American Music Festival, the Third Annual Symposium of American Music in Virginia, USA. Her works have been performed in Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
, Panama
Panama
Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...
, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
, USA, 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...
, Uruguay
Uruguay
Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
, Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
and Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
.
Nova's work has been issued through media including radio, publications, film, conferences and concerts. In 1970 she conducted a lecture and concert for the Conference on Electronic Music at the Instituto Colombo-Alemán and also at the V Music Festival in Medellín
Medellín
Medellín , officially the Municipio de Medellín or Municipality of Medellín, is the second largest city in Colombia. It is in the Aburrá Valley, one of the more northerly of the Andes in South America. It has a population of 2.3 million...
. She wrote "The Wonderful World of Machinery" for the magazine Bogota Nova No. 4 in 1966, and "Reasonable Orders Conscious and Unconscious" in 1967 and "An Aberrant Phenomenon" for the newspaper El Espectador in 1969.
Between 1969 and 1970, Nova directed Asimetrías, a Radiodifusora Nacional radio series which presented 22 sessions of new music works and analysis. In 1970 she established the New Music Group to perform works by living composers, with special emphasis on Latin America, but because of her health, the ensemble had limited engagements. Nova died 13 June 1975 in Bogotá from bone cancer.
Awards and honors
- Festival de Música de Caracas Award for Chamber Orchestra 1966 for 12 Mobile
- Third prize in the Composition of the Colombian Institute of Culture 1977 for "Pitecanthropus" for symphony orchestra, voices and electronic sounds
- Posthumous recognition from the Colombian Institute of Culture
Works
Nova composed for multiple genres including orchestra, chamber ensembles and solo instrument. She also wrote works for popular theater and film soundtracks including Machu Picchu and Francisco Norden's film The Guerrilla Priest Camilo. She also composed for Son et lumièreSon et lumière (show)
Son et lumière , or a sound and light show, is a form of nighttime entertainment that is usually presented in an outdoor venue of historic significance....
projects. Selected works include:
- Fantasy for piano
- Little Suite for string quartet
- Transitions for piano
- Asymmetries for flute, cymbals, and tam-tams
- Opposition fusion for tape
- Echos I for paino and electronic sounds
- 12 Mobile for symphony orchestra
- Metamorphosis III for symphony orchestra
- Music for Macbeth chamber group
- Julius Caesar for theater
- Hiroshima, oratorio, text by Dora Castellanos, for symphony orchestra, countertenor, contralto, 16 female voices, choir and tape
- Omaggio a Catullus for speaking voices, piano, harmonium, percussion and electronic sounds
- HK 70
- Creation of the earth