Jorge Antunes

Jorge Antunes was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1942. At age18 he entered the National School of Music at the University of Brazil to study violin, composition and conducting.

In 1962 he became interested in electronic music and founded the Studio for Chromo-Musical Research. In 1965 he initiated important research between sound and color, and composed a series of works named CROMOPLASTOFONIAS, performed by orchestra, magnetic tape, light, which made use of the olfactory, taste, and touch senses.

In 1967 he set up his Centre for Musical Research at the Villa-Lobos Institute where he continued his research of electronic music. In 1971 he won the Avro Prize for his composition Music for Eight Persons Playing Things. In 1976 he composed his famous Sinfonia das Diretas. In 1992 he completed his opera OLGA. In 1993 and 1996 he received the Prize of Recommendation of UNESCO’s International Tribune of Composers for his works Idiosynchronie and Rimbaudiannisia MCMXCV.

In1999/2000 the Brazilian government commissioned Antunes to compose new works for the commemoration of 500 years of Brazil. He completed the works Cantata dos Dez Povos, a monumental work of 60 minutes for orchestra, choir, soloists, declamators, and tape, and Sinfonia em Cinco Movimentos.

Some monographic CDs with Antunes’ works were published in 2003. During 2004-2006 he was president of the Brazilian Society for Electroacoustic Music.

Reference

Classical Composers Database (2009). Brazilian composers. Jorge Antunes. Retrieved October

4, 2009 from http://www.classical- composers.org/comp/antunes

Discography

Opera

• Contato (1968)
  


• Vivaldia MCMLXXV chamber opera buffa (1975)
  


• Qorpo Santo opera in 3 acts (1983)
  


• O rei de uma nota só (The Single-tone King),
  Mini-opera in 4 scenes (1991)


• A borboleta azul (The Blue Butterfly), Mini-opera in
  2 acts (1995)


• Olga
  (composed 1987-1997, premiered 2006)
  

Chamber music

• Mascaruncho for 2 Violas (1977)
  


• Microformóbiles I for Viola and Piano (1970)
  


• Modinha para Mindinha (Tune for Mindinha) for 7
  Violas (1985)
  

Elegia violeta para Monsenhor Romero
(1980), Sinfonia das diretas
(1984) and Hino à constituição cidadã
(or Hino ao novo Brasil,
1988)