Juan Orrego-Salas

Juan Antonio Orrego Salas (January 18, 1919 – November 24, 2019) was a Chilean composer.

In 1961, he permanently relocated to the United States to work at Indiana University, where he co-founded the Latin American Music Center. In 1992 he was the inaugural winner of Chile's National Prize for Musical Arts.[1]

He died in Bloomington, Indiana, on November 24, 2019.[2]

References

"Lanzan disco con música para saxofón compuesta por Juan Orrego Salas" [Album Released With Music for Saxophone Composed by Juan Orrego Salas]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). Santiago. 28 September 2004. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
Ricardo Lorenz, "Juan Orrego-Salas: 1919–2019", Indiana University Bloomington, Jacobs School of Music, Latin American Music Center website (accessed January 17, 2020).

External links

bio page from Indiana University, archive from 29 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine (archived December 29, 2010) (accessed 1 October 2013).
La Ciudad Celeste, conducted by Carmen-Helena Téllez
A conversation with Juan Orrego-Salas, recorded March 1, 2014
Interview with Juan Orrego-Salas, August 17, 1991
A Latin American Composer in the United States, 2004

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[1] "Lanzan disco con música para saxofón compuesta por Juan Orrego Salas" [Album Released With Music for Saxophone Composed by Juan Orrego Salas]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). Santiago. 28 September 2004. Retrieved 12 December 2017.

[2] Ricardo Lorenz, "Juan Orrego-Salas: 1919–2019", Indiana University Bloomington, Jacobs School of Music, Latin American Music Center website (accessed January 17, 2020).