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Ecuadorian composer of classical music (born 1955)
Diego Luzuriaga
(born 1955, in
Loja
) is an
Ecuadorian
composer of classical music.
He was awarded the
Guggenheim Fellowship
for Music Composition in
1993
.
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Luzuriaga composed
Manuela y Bolivar
,
[2]
the first Ecuadorian
opera
, which relates the love and death of
Manuela Saenz
and
Simon Bolivar
. It premiered in November 2006 at the Sucre National Theater (
Teatro Nacional Sucre
).
He was awarded the
Eugenio Espejo National Prize
in 2006. This prize is the highest recognition given to an Ecuadorian artist and it is awarded biannually by the president of Ecuador.
Andean folk
and Latin American music are influences in Luzuriaga's work. His
"Responsorio"
has been performed by several major American symphony orchestras as part of
"Caminos del Inka"
, a program championed by conductor
Miguel Harth-Bedoya
.
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Luzuriaga earned an architecture degree from the
Central University of Ecuador
in
Quito
, before pursuing an education in musical composition at the
Ecole Normale
in Paris, the
Manhattan School of Music
in New York, and
Columbia University
.
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