Jorge E. Campos,
composer, professor of musicology.
Born in Quito, Ecuador, South America.
Studies: piano and composition in the Concervatorio Nacional de Musica
(Quito) with Marie Renee Portais (France), Elisabeth Waimberg (Russia)
and G. Guevara (pupil of Nadia Boulanger).
First and second prize of Composers of Ecuador (1983-1984). Since 1980
till 1986 participated in many concerts in several countries in South America
as composer and pianist.
In 1987 entered to Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory to continuing studying
in composition and musicology. Among his professors there were such famous
persons as N. Rakov, S. Korndorf, E. Sorokina, Yu. Kholopov, A. Leman and
E. Denissov.
In 1992 finished Moscow Conservatory (with honors) and continued his post-graduate
course of composition that graduated in November 1994.
Since 1993 studies and works in the THEREMIN-CENTER
in Moscow, specializing in electro-acoustic music.
He is the first foreign composer, who works in the field of electro-acoustic
music in Russia. J. Campos participated in several festivals of Contemporary
music in Europe and Russia (Bartoks festival in Hungary, 1987, Avignon
Summer 1988, New Music in Russia, 1993, ALTERNATIVA 1994, 1996, Russian
Season in 1997).
Instrumental solo compositions:
Two nocturnes for piano
Variaciones for piano
Andino I for flute solo
Andino II for flute solo
Mirrors for percussion solo
Preludios for piano
Postales for piano
Chamber music:
Sonata for cello and piano
Tres poemas for voice and violin
Two string quartets
Circles for soprano, clarinet, cello and percussion
Sonata for viola and piano
Quintet for wind instruments
Symphony music
Electro-acoustic music
Sonata for viola, piano and tape
Bora-Bora for percussion and tape
Bora-Bora for bass-clarinet, percussion and tape
Yaravi for flute, percussion and tape
De profundis for strings, percussion and tape
Lullaby for piano, percussion, tape and dancers
New Moon for soprano, bass-clarinet, glove-power and dancers
Electronic music
In memoriam
El jardin de las Delicias
Bora-Bora
Meditation
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Guitarra...guitarra...guitarra...
Kon-Tiki for ovaloid and computer
Glissandi for 6 Theremin-voxs
Video
De profundis
Urbis
Shadows of Vyacheslav Koleitchouk
One of the discoveries of Alternativa was Jorge Campos, the
young Ecuadorian post-graduate student at the Moscow Conservatory and the
member of the Theremin Center of Electro-acoustic music. Campos music astonished
the audience with its dimension and conceptual intensity. The composer
has a special kind of sound: not interested in a great diversity of electronic
sounds, he selects only necessary and specific ones from acoustic resources.
Electronic means were used in his first piece of the festival Yaravi for
flute, percussion and tape, to create archaic color and a remoteness from
the listener. The bewitching, alluring melodies of a bird-flute overlaps
those carried in the atmosphere, and we find ourselves in the different
dimension, in the world of myth and allegory.
Jorges second piece was De profundis for string quartet, percussion and
tape. The performance used various stereo effects: different performers
and amplifiers were situated throughout the concert hall. It was the titanic
history of the universe springing from and reverting back into silence.
COMPOSER JORGE CAMPOS. Elena Dubinets. the Paris New Music Review. July-August
1994
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