Olga Pozzi-Escot Zapata (born 1 October 1933) is a Peruvian-born American composer, music theorist, and faculty member at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts.[1]

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 Sonus.[4] She has written over thirty articles (mostly published in her own journal) developing and discussing the relationship between music and mathematics. Her works are recorded on Delos, 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 (1930–2021).

References

  1. ↑ "Pozzi Escot | New England Conservatory". Necmusic.edu. Archived from the original on 26 March 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  2. ↑ "All Lima, Peru, Civil Registration, 1874-1996 results for Pozzi". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 Boenke, Heidi M. (ed.): Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog (p. 37). Published at Google Books website; retrieved 17 March 2016.
  4. ↑ "Biography of Pozzi Escot". Sonicdesign.org. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
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