Rodas, Arturo

He studied at the Quito National Music Conservatory. His teacher was, among others, Patricio Pizarro. He also took private lessons in composition from Gerardo Guevara. Arturo Rodas graduated from the Faculty of Law at Central University of Ecuador . In 1978 and 1979, he was an assistant to the French composer José Bergman in Quito and Paris. In 1981, he received a scholarship from the French government at the Normal School of Music under the direction of Jeanette Keller (counterpoint) and Yoshchis Tyra (composition).

In 1983, with a scholarship from the Acanthes Center , he completed a compositional course at Luciano Berio in Aix-en-Provence . He studied electro-acoustic music with Mesias Maiguashka at the Metz European Center for Musical Research (CERM) and Phil Waxman in London. He also attended various courses at IRCAM Paris. In 1983, in Paris, his composition Entropía became a finalist at the Max Deutsch International Orchestra Competition. It was performed by the Ильle de France orchestra under the direction of Alexandre Mirat.

In 1984, when he returned to Ecuador, some of his orchestral works were performed by the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alvaro Manzano. From 1986 to December 1989, he was editor of the music magazine Opus . In Ecuador, he became one of the "notable composers of the new generation." ^[1] In 1989, he received financial support from UNESCO to compose music. John Walker writes: “The Central Bank of Ecuador published a double CD with Rodas's works in 1988 as the first album from the Ecuadorian Contemporary Composers series. Here are collected works by Fibris , Arcaica , Clímax , Andino III , ¡Oh. ...! , Mordente , Inverse spaces . ^[2]

Since the end of 1989, the composer has been living in London, but he lived in Rome for the academic year 1998 to 1999. His compositions were performed in different countries of the world. He is also the organizer of concerts and festivals. "Arturo Rodas promotes universal modernity in his country ...". ^[3] Rodas's works are published by Barcelona's Periferia , and Paris's Virtualscore for the Internet.

“In his works, there are various techniques: experimental-ethnic ( Andino I - IV , Laúdico ); polyphony of sound masses ( Entropía , Arcaica ); aleatorics ( Fibris , Ramificaciones Temporales ); purely formal experiments ( Obsesiva , La , Chamber tunes ). These techniques are unified from the very beginning of their work ( Fibris , Clímax , Güilli-Gu ). In later works there is a simplicity of the language that hides the complexity of the texture (24.5 preludes for piano, atonal fugues and the instrumental opera Bird Tree ). ” ^[four]

Audio: Pan comido suite in 4 parts for piano and CD. Francis Young - Piano

• Rodas, Arturo. Analysis of the musical form of Güilli-Gu . Cultura Magazine, Central Bank of Ecuador, Vol. IX No. 26. Ed. - Irving Ivan Zapater, September-December 1986: pp. 387–402
• Rodas, Arturo. Mesias Maiguashka Hour, Opus Magazine No. 15, September 1987: pp. 17-19.
• Rodas, Arturo. Gerardo Guevara at the Musical Crossroads, Opus Magazine No. 15, September 1987: pp. 20-21. Reprint of an article published by Impulso 2000 , November 1986.
• Luis Umberto Salgado: Opus No.31 Magazine, Central Bank of Ecuador. Arthur Rodas Monographic Issue, January 1989.

• Beag, Gerard. 2001. Ecuador. Musical art. Grove's Music Dictionary, Second Edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrell. London, Macmillan, NY: Grove's Music Dictionary.
• Campos, Jorge. 2008, Note to Publisher (Unavailable Link) Periferia Barcelona
• Sodron Andre: Arturo Rodas, Amsterdam: Page of contemporary music, July 10, 2002.
• Encyclopedia of Ecuadorian music. Musicology Corporation of Ecuador (CONMUSICA). Editor - Pablo Guerrero Gutierrez. Quito, 2003.
• Martin, Ann Marie, article on Arturo Rodas for Barcelona's Periferia publishing house, December 2009.
• Saens Andrade, Bruno. Concert for the public. The newspaper "Hoy" from 9/7/1991.
• Valdano, Juan Esteban. Fibris analysis. Opus Magazine No. 15, September 1987, pp. 42-51
• Walker, John L. The Young Generation of Ecuadorian Composers, University of Texas Latin American Music Review, Volume 22, Number 2, Fall / Winter 2001, pp. 199-213
• Walker, John L. 2007. "Singing in a Foreign Country: National Identity in Ecuadorian Music. Article presented at the Congress of the Association of Latin American Studies, Montreal, Canada, September 5-7, 2007.

• Arturo Rodas composer official website
• Audio files of works of Arturo Rodas at UNESCO
• Arturo Rodas' Audio Files in Rebervnation

• Publisher Periferia Spain
• Virtualscore , Publishing House for the Internet, Paris

• Bird Tree on Wikipedia
• REDASLA - Latin American Sound Art Network
• COMA - Contemporary Music Library for Amateur Musicians, London