Florencio Ruck Pozadas Cordero (1939-1968) was a percussionist and composer pioneer of the electroacoustic music, and post serial composition techniques in Bolivia.
Pozadas was born in Potosí, Bolivia. He was a violin student at the Academia de Bellas Artes in the Tomás Frías Autonomous University of Potosi, and studies in Buenos Aires at the Conservatorio Municipal Manuel de Falla. Later he studied composition under Gerardo Gandini and won a Scholarship from 1967 to 1968 for postgraduate studies at the CLAEM (Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales del Instituto Torcuato Di Tella) with Luigi Nono, Cristobal Halfter, Vladimir Ussachevsky, and Roman Haubenstock-Ramati. He was member of the percussion ensemble Ritmus conducted by Antonio Yepes and The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Buenos Aires. His work for choir Tres coros bolivianos won in 1965 the first prize of the contest Luzmila Patiño in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Died in a traffic accident in 1968 near Buenos Aires.
The Torcuato Di Tella University is a non-profit private university in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Founded in 1991, the university focused primarily on social sciences.
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María Esther Álvarez de Hermitte (1921-1990), commonly known as Esther Hermitte, was a social anthropologist from Argentina.
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Jacqueline Nova Sondag (1935–1975) was a Colombian musician, author and composer. She is often cited as having initiated Colombia's electroacoustic musical practices.
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Mariano Etkin (1943–2016) was an Argentine composer.
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Rogelio Polesello was an Argentine painter, muralist and sculptor. He was best known for making Op art known in Latin America. He won two Konex Awards; one in 1982 and another in 2012. He was born in Buenos Aires.
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Inés Katzenstein is an Argentine curator, art historian, and art critic who specializes in Latin American art.
Francisco Kröpfl was an Argentinian composer and music theorist.
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Iris Sanguesa de Ichasso is a Chilean composer, pianist and percussionist. She was one of the first women to study at the Torcuato Di Tella Institute’s Centro Latinamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (CLAEM), where she composed several multimedia pieces. She is known professionally as Iris Sanguesa.