Maria Teresa Luengo (born 25 November 1940) is an Argentine composer and musicologist.
Maria Teresa Luengo was born in Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina in Buenos Aires in 1969, where she studied with Alberto Ginastera, Luis Gianneo, Juan Francisco Giacobbe, Roberto Caamaño and Gerardo Gandini. In 1973 she was awarded a scholarship that allowed her to contintue her studies in electro-acoustic music with Francisco Krópfl, Gerardo Gandini, Femando Von Reichenbach, Gabriel Bmcyc, and Peter Maxwell Davies at the Center of Art and Communication (CAYC). During this time she was invited to participate in a year-long seminar on contemporary music during which she composed The Book of Mirrors.
From 1974-1975 she taught at the University of El Salvador, and in 1984 began teaching composition at the National University of La Plata. From 1972-93, she also taught at the Municipal School of Fine Arts Carlos Morel of Quilmes. In 1990 she designed the curriculum for study in Music Electroacústica of the National University of Quilmes and worked as director and professor of composition within the program.
Honors and awards
First prize in Composition from Musical Promotions, 1971First prize in Composition from the City of Buenos Aires, 1973Scholarship in Composition from the National Fund of the ArtsPrize in Composition from the National University of La Plata, 1983Special Mention from the National Fund of the Arts in the Juan Carlos Peace CompetitionThe Fund National of the Arts recognition for composers under thirty-five years, 1988Her work Presences was selected and interpreted in the third conference of Contemporary Latin American Music Composers, 1989 Her music for the film Taumanía from the filmmaker Pablo Delfini on the Tau Ricardo drawings won First Prize of the National Endowment for the Arts,1987.Selected works include:
Sonata for Piano, 1965Heptatonic for flute, clarinet, string quartet and piano, 1970Six Preludes for String Quartet, 1968Scopes for string quartet and piano, 1971Duetto, for violin and piano, 1972Cuatro Soles for flute, oboe, cello, piano and percussion, 1973Absolum electronic work, about 1973The Imaginary Museum, for violin, viola, cello, piano and instruments of persecution, 1975Mailenanas three pieces for piano, 1976The Book of Mirrors, stopped flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano and percussion, 1976Six magical images, for flute, clarinet, cello and percussion, 1978Presences, trio for flute, violin and piano, 1980Navigator for piano and six percussionists, 1983Nao for wind quintet, 1983Echoes of Tupac trio in G for flute, bass clarinet, cello, 1984The waters of the Light for two flutes in C, bass clarinet, violin and cello, 1989Jumping transparent for piano, 1990Music for the film Taumanía, 1987
