Antonio Estévez, composer

Born: January 3, 1916 in Calabozo, Venezuela

Died: November 26, 1988 in Caracas, Venezuela

Education: moved to Caracas to study the oboe and composition with Vicente Emilio Sojo at the Escuela de Música y Declamación; also studied with Koussevitsky, Bernstein and others at Columbia University and Tanglewood; obtained a fellowship from the National Institute of Culture and moved to Paris to study electronic techniques

Venezuelan music: collaborated with Sojo and Juan Bautista Plaza in the transcription and rehabilitation of Venezuelan colonial music

Posts: taught harmony at the National School of Music in Caracas; founded the Estudio de Fonología Musical

Important Works: Concerto for Orchestra; Cantata criolla; Cromovibrafonía múltiple