Arturo Rodas

Arturo Rodas (born 1954) is a leading Ecuadorian composer. He has lived in London since 1989.

Biography

Rodas has composed 24.5 Preludes for piano; Climax for orchestra, Atonal fugue I for oboe d'amore & piano and electronic music works.

"Since emigrating to England in 1990, he has composed works such as The Book of the Orchestra,(2002-2003) which is intended to be performed in a house with many rooms so as to allow an “audience” to hear different instrumental groups as they wander from room to room".

References

• Béhague, Gerard. 2001. "Ecuador. Art Music". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers; New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music.
• Enciclopedia de la música ecuatoriana. Corporación Musicológica Ecuatoriana (CONMUSICA). Edited by Pablo Guerrero Gutierrez. Quito, 2003.
• Walker, John L. 2001. "The Younger Generation of Ecuadorian Composers". Latin American Music Review 22, no. 2 (Fall/Winter): 199–213.

Compositions

• Arcaica for full orchestra
• 24.5 Preludes for piano
• Life Class 2005 for piano, electroacoustics & film
• El árbol de los pájaros (the birds' tree) an opera for the voice ... of the instruments.

Other websites

• Audio: Tutti frutti for piano & tape (fragment)
• Recordings of Rodas' works Reverbnation
• El Árbol de los Pájaros

Scores

• Periferia publisher, Barcelona.
• Virtualscore internet publishers, Paris