Fernando García

Fernando García (born July 4, 1930) is a Chilean composer. Active since 1956 he has done orchestral music, chamber music, etc. He studied with Juan Orrego-Salas and Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, among others. His style is influenced by serialism and aleatoric procedures. He also played a role in the beginnings of electroacoustic music in Chile, after a trip he made to France in the early 1950s where he heard musique concrete. He was born in Santiago, Chile.

He worked for the Instituto de Extensión Musical of the University of Chile, and in 1962 he premiered the cantata América Insurrecta, which won an award at the Chilean Music Festival. After the Chilean coup-d'état, he was forced into exile, first in Perú (1973-1979), and then in Cuba (1979-1990). He returned to his country in 1989 and joined the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile where he taught musicology until 2009.

In 2002, he received the National Prize for Musical Arts. In 2013 he was recognized by the Sociedad Chilena del Derecho de Autor (SCD) as one of the Fundamental figures of Chilean music.

Selected works

Variaciones for orchestra, 1959 Sinfonía, 1960 América Insurrecta, for speaker, chorus and orchestra, text by Pablo Neruda, 1962 Quimera, theater piece after Federico García Lorca, 1965 La arena traicionada (11 de marzo de 1966), 1967 Firmamento sumergido, 1968 Las raíces de la ira (En recuerdo de Víctor Jara), 1976 Meditaciones, 1977 Temblor de cielo, 1979 Despertar de octubre (1917-1967), 1981 Puntos cardinales for strings, 1984 El reposo del guerrero, 1989 Navegaciones for flute, harp and strings, 1990 Crónicas americanas, 1992 Se unen la tierra y el hombre for tape (voice of Pablo Neruda) and orchestra, 1992 Zonas eriales for clarinet and chamber orchestra, 1995 Tres miradas for strings, 1996 Dos paisajes urbanos, 1997 Misterios, 1998 Tres cantos materiales for cello and strings, 1999 Díptico sinfónico, 1999 Rincones sordos for strings, 2001 Nacerá la aurora (Hommage to Charles Ives), 2001 Dura elegía (En recuerdo de Jorge Peña), 2002 Dos temas de discusión for strings, 2003 Luces y sombras, 2003 Juegos for percussion and strings, 2003 Nuevos juegos for percussion and strings, 2003 Obertura concertante for percussion and orchestra, 2005 Homenaje a Celso Garrido Lecca, for orchestra, 2005 Implicaciones sonoras, for orchestra, 2005 Imágenes siderales, 2006 Signos de otoño, for string orchestra, 2011 Tinieblas y Destellos, for string quartet, 2012 De Norte a Sur, for drum kit and orchestra, 2013 Detenidos Desaparecidos, for orchestra, 2014 Sinergia, for orchestra, 2015