Beatriz Lockhart (17 January 1944 – 23 November 2015) was an Uruguayan pianist, music educator and composer.

Life and career

Beatriz Lockhart was born in

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and studied composition at the Montevideo Conservatory and the Latin-American Center for Musical Studies of the Instituto Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires from 1969 to 1970 with Carlos Estrada and Héctor Tosar. She took a teaching position in 1974 at the National Conservatory in

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, Venezuela, then returned to Uruguay in 1998 to teach at the Escuela Universitaria de Música and at the Escuela Municipal de Música. She is noted as a specialist in contemporary tango.

Selected works

*''Joropo'' for clarinet quartet *''Montevideo piece Number 3'' for orchestra *''Merengue'' for clarinet quartet

References

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* 1944 births 2015 deaths Uruguayan people of Scottish descent 20th-century classical composers Uruguayan music educators Uruguayan women music educators Uruguayan women classical composers Uruguayan classical composers Musicians from Montevideo 20th-century women composers {{Uruguay-composer-stub