Pozzi Escot
Olga Pozzi-Escot Zapata (born 1 October 1933) is a Peruvian-born American composer, music theorist, and faculty member at the
Life
Pozzi Escot was born in Lima, Peru, her father was a French professor at the University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru, Marius Emmanuel Pozzi Escot, and her mother was Lucía María Zapata Hurtado.[2] After living in Peru, she went to France.
Back in Peru, between 1949 and 1953 she studied at the Academy of Music Sas-Rosay (Lima).[3]
At the end of 1953, she emigrated to the United States to attend Reed College in Portland, Oregon, becoming a citizen three years later. Between 1954 and 1957 she studied at the Juilliard School (in New York), where she graduated with a degree in composition (1956)[3] and Bachelor in Arts (1957).[3]
She is a graduate of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.
She is author of The Poetics of Simple Mathematics in Music, co-author of Sonic Design: The Nature of Sound and Music and since 1980, Editor-in-Chief of the self-published music journal
Pozzi Escot resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her partner, composer and theorist Robert Cogan (1930–2021).
References
- ^ "Pozzi Escot | New England Conservatory". Necmusic.edu. Archived from the original on 26 March 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
- ^ "All Lima, Peru, Civil Registration, 1874-1996 results for Pozzi". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
- ^ a b c Boenke, Heidi M. (ed.): Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog (p. 37). Published at Google Books website; retrieved 17 March 2016.
- ^ "Biography of Pozzi Escot". Sonicdesign.org. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
External links
- Pozzi Escot interview, 8 April 1987
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