Nydia Pereyra-Lizaso
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Nydia Pereyra-Lizaso is a Uruguayan
composer, pianist, and music educator.
, Uruguay
. She studied music with Dolores Bell and Carmen Barrera at the Conservatory of Teresiano in Rocha, and in Montevideo
with Wilhelm Kolisch for piano, Tomás Mujica for counterpoint and fugue and Enrique Casal-Chapí for composition. After completing her studies she worked as a composer and taught music at the Kolischer Conservatory and at the Institute of Musical Education.
Pereyra-Lizaso's works have been performed internationally. Her Four miniatures for violin and viola won the chamber music award at GEDOK in Mannheim, 1966. She also won the Casa de Teatro stage music award in 1959, 1964, 1966, 1967 and 1978 for incidental music in plays performed by the Comedia Nacional de Montevideo. She has published a number of pedagogical works written for children.
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...
composer, pianist, and music educator.
Life
Nydia was born in RochaRocha
Rocha is a Portuguese family name. It literally means “rock” or “boulder” in Portuguese; for instance, “rochas sedimentares, metamórficas e magmáticas” means “sedimentary, metamorphic and magmatic rocks”...
, 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...
. She studied music with Dolores Bell and Carmen Barrera at the Conservatory of Teresiano in Rocha, and in Montevideo
Montevideo
Montevideo is the largest city, the capital, and the chief port of Uruguay. The settlement was established in 1726 by Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst a Spanish-Portuguese dispute over the platine region, and as a counter to the Portuguese colony at Colonia del Sacramento...
with Wilhelm Kolisch for piano, Tomás Mujica for counterpoint and fugue and Enrique Casal-Chapí for composition. After completing her studies she worked as a composer and taught music at the Kolischer Conservatory and at the Institute of Musical Education.
Pereyra-Lizaso's works have been performed internationally. Her Four miniatures for violin and viola won the chamber music award at GEDOK in Mannheim, 1966. She also won the Casa de Teatro stage music award in 1959, 1964, 1966, 1967 and 1978 for incidental music in plays performed by the Comedia Nacional de Montevideo. She has published a number of pedagogical works written for children.
Works
Nydia Pereyra-Lizaso composes mainly for chamber ensemble and vocal performance. Selected works include:- Sarabande for piano
- Divertimento for strings
- Adagio and Allegro, clarinet, pianoforte, 1958
- Allegro and Andante, Bass clarinet, pianoforte, 1965
- Four miniatures, violin, viola, clarinet, 1966
- Song about Juan Ramon Gimenez, violin, pianoforte, 1954
- 2 Songs (text C. Gómez Martínez), violin, pianoforte 1956
- 3 Songs (text E. de Cáceres), vocal or choir, 1956
- 6 Songs (text R.M. Rilke ), Mezzo-soprano, pianoforte, 1959
- 3 Songs (E. de Cáceres), Soprano, pianoforte, 1967
- Pianoforte Sonata no.1, 1955
- Sonata no. 2, 1958
- Sonatina, 1967
- 3 pieces for children, 1967
- Sonatina in G, 1963
- 2 miniatures, 1968