Arturo Rodas

Arturo Rodas (born 1954) is a leading Ecuadorian composer.Béhague 2001, 7:872. He has lived in London since 1989.

 Biography 

Rodas has composed 24.5 Preludes for piano; Climax for orchestra, Atonal fugue I for oboe d'amore & piano and electronic music works.

"Since emigrating to England in 1990, he has composed works such as The Book of the Orchestra,(2002-2003) work renamed El árbol de los pájaros which is intended to be performed in a house with many rooms so as to allow an “audience” to hear different instrumental groups as they wander from room to room".Walker 2007.

 References 
 Béhague, Gerard. 2001. "Ecuador. Art Music". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers; New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music.
 Enciclopedia de la música ecuatoriana. Corporación Musicológica Ecuatoriana (CONMUSICA). Edited by Pablo Guerrero Gutierrez. Quito, 2003. 
 Walker, John L. 2001. "The Younger Generation of Ecuadorian Composers". Latin American Music Review 22, no. 2 (Fall/Winter): 199–213.

 Compositions 
 Arcaica for full orchestra
 24.5 Preludes for piano
 Life Class 2005 for piano, electroacoustics & film film made by Rupert Davies-Cooke
 El árbol de los pájaros (the birds' tree) an opera for the voice ... of the instruments.

 Notes 

 Other websites 
Audio: Tutti frutti for piano & tape (fragment)
 Recordings of Rodas' works Reverbnation
 El Árbol de los Pájaros

 Scores 
 Periferia  publisher, Barcelona.
 Virtualscore internet publishers, Paris

Category:1954 births
Category:Living people
Category:21st-century composers
Category:20th-century composers
Category:Ecuadorian musicians