Olga Pozzi-Escot Zapata (born 1 October 1933) is a Peruvian-born American composer, music theorist, and faculty member at the
New England Conservatory
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in
Boston, Massachusetts.
Life
Pozzi Escot was born in
Lima
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, 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. 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).
[Boenke, Heidi M. (ed.)]
''Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog''
(p. 37). Published at Google Books website; retrieved 17 March 2016.
At the end of 1953, she emigrated to the United States to attend
Reed College
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in
Portland, Oregon
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, becoming a citizen three years later. Between 1954 and 1957 she studied at the
Juilliard School
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(in
New York
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), where she graduated with a degree in composition (1956)
[ and Bachelor in Arts (1957).][
She is a graduate of the ]Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg
The Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg is one of the larger universities of music in Germany.
It was founded 1950 as ''Staatliche Hochschule für Musik'' (Public college of music) on the base of the former private acting school of Annem ...
.
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 Sonus.Delos
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, Neuma, Spectrum, Leo, Music & Arts and Centaur labels and published by Publication Contact International.
Pozzi Escot resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her partner, composer and theorist Robert Cogan
Robert Cogan (February 2, 1930 – August 19, 2021) was an American music theorist, composer and teacher.
Career
He studied at the University of Michigan (B.M., 1951; M.M., 1952); Princeton University (M.F.A., 1956); Royal Conservatory of Brussel ...
(1930–2021).
References
External links
Pozzi Escot interview
8 April 1987
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1933 births
20th-century classical composers
Women classical composers
French emigrants to the United States
Living people
Music & Arts artists
New England Conservatory faculty
Peruvian composers
Reed College alumni
Women in electronic music
Women music educators
20th-century women composers