Curriculum

LuisZubillaga

Born in Buenos Aires, 1928 / 1995.

Studied composition with Juan Carlos Paz, composition and piano with C. Marcolli, trumpet with B.Barbará. He taught Composition at different Latin American Universities, among others: the National University of Tucuman and La Plata, Argentina, and Professor and Director of the School of Music at the Central University of Venezuela, where he began the first Latin American Jazz Professor´s Chair. He produced and organized Latin American Music Congresses, both in Venezuela and Argentina, as well as the Youth National Symphonic Orchestra Meetings between 1983/84, just until 1994. In 1989 he founded and was elected first President of CULTRUN Composers Association, and in1991 became Vice President of the Argentine Compositors Federation.

His musical production begins in 1961 with the piano composition "Haiku", edited in 1964 by Editorial Argentina de Música, performed in 1966, and with the performing of "Paisaje en fluctuación" in 1962.

Among other performed works notably: : "Todos los días…ninguno", for 14 instruments, that won the Music Award at the Simon Bolívar University; "Aquella tarde en aquella casa", for 15 instruments; "Escena" for 26 instruments commissioned by the Ateneo de Caracas for its 50th anniversary; "Noches" for improvisation and chamber ensemble; "Octubre 90" for 5 instruments; "Trompetas en Septiembre" for three trumpets, piano and percussion; "Bue 93" for 5 instruments; "Direccionales" for string quartet; "Cuando estamos…cuando no estamos" for chamber and improvisation ensambles and saxo alto, and from 1995 "Hoy, piano".

His musical production is avaible in different recording formats and has been performed , among other places, in, Argentina- Teatro Colón, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Teatro Gral. San Martín, different Universities; Venezuela - Centro Cultural Teresa Carreño and Universities; Cuba; North America - Carroll Reece Museum; Europe - Munch Mussett.

Some of Zubillaga´s scores partially escape from the overall construction of his production. This could be the case of "Trompetas en Septiembre" and the string quartet. But even for this instances, there are constant patterns that always remain. First, there is a tendency to a certain estaticity, with very little evolution. Second, it is melodic music. Zubillaga never moved away from melody. Furthermore, there has always been an emotive factor permanently present. Zubillaga reveals, "I don´t construct a piece in a rational manner, the piece construct itself out of an emotive story, for example, a narration, the emotion produced by mountains, rivers and mental states, these are always the structural factor".

Some other patterns that appear frequently along in his production are abrupt cuts, stillness, undefined endings, melodies, repetitions that break unexpectedly, jazz passages( not always ), and the use of triads to play with harmony. According to Zubillaga this has always been constant. "I always use the triads.

What happens is that one adds sounds here and there, but alwwys the foundation is the triad". He also composed music for films, published articles, participated in radio programs and gave conferences and seminars.

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