About Juan Orrego-Salas
Lived 1919 – 2019 (aged 100). Juan Orrego-Salas was a Chilean composer, conductor, musicologist, music educator, university teacher and architect.
Juan Antonio Orrego-Salas (January 18, 1919 – November 24, 2019 ) was a Chilean composer, musicologist, music critic, and academic.
Life and career Born Juan Antonio Orrego-Salas in Santiago on January 18, 1919, Orrego-Salas studied at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música (Chile), the music school of the University of Chile, in his native city where he was a pupil of Pedro Humberto Allende (composition) and Domingo Santa Cruz Wilson (composition). He also earned of Bachelor of Arts in architecture in addition to earning his diploma in music composition from the University of Chile.
In 1961, Orrego-Salas permanently relocated to the United States to work at Indiana University Bloomington, where he co-founded the Latin American Music Center (LAMC). One of his students at IU's Jacobs School of Music was composer Ricardo Lorenz who succeeded him as director of the LAMC. In 1992, he was the inaugural winner of Chile's National Prize for Musical Arts.
He died in Bloomington, Indiana, on November 24, 2019.
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Chilean musician (1919–2019)
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Juan Orrego-Salas was born on 18 January 1919 in Santiago.
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Juan Orrego-Salas died on 24 November 2019 in Bloomington.
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Juan Orrego-Salas was a composer, conductor, musicologist, music educator, university teacher and architect.
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Juan Orrego-Salas was Chilean.
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