Sylvia Soublette Asmussen (February 5, 1924 – January 29, 2020) was a Chilean composer, singer, choirmaster and educator. She won the 1964 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Gold Medal, the 1997 Critics Award from the Valparaíso Art Critics Circle, the 1998 music medal from the National Music Council, and the Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit , which was awarded posthumously. She published and performed under the name Sylvia Soublette.
11-697: Letelier is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Carmen Luisa Letelier , Chilean singer and teacher Fabiola Letelier (born 1929), Chilean lawyer Hernán Rivera Letelier (born 1950), Chilean novelist José Letelier (born 1966), Chilean football coach and goalkeeper Juan Carlos Letelier (born 1959), Chilean football striker Patricio Letelier (1943–2011), Chilean mathematical physicist Orlando Letelier (1932–1976), Chilean economist, politician and diplomat René Letelier (1915–2006), Chilean chess player References [ edit ] [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
22-584: A mention in music) in 1968, while her brother received the National Prize for Musical Arts in 2008. In December 2018 she succeeded Luis Merino Montero as president of the Chilean Academy of Fine Arts [ es ] . Sylvia Soublette Soublette was born in Viña del Mar to a musical family. Her brother is the musicologist Gastón Soublette . Their mother, Isabel Asmussen Urrutia,
33-534: A mixed one at the same institution in 1945. The next year, she married Gabriel Valdés , who later became Chile’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. They had three children ( Maximiano , Juan Gabriel and María Gracia) and adopted a fourth (Enrique Bravo, son of their housemaid). Soublette studied music privately with Alina Piderit and at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música with Federico Heinlein, Clara Oyuela, and Domingo Santa Cruz. She received
44-885: A scholarship from the French government in 1951 to study at the Paris Conservatory with Darius Milhaud and Olivier Messiaen . After returning to Chile, she studied privately with Juan Orrego Salas . Soublette taught at university in Valparaíso as well as at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago . She founded the Ancient Music Ensemble in 1960, directing it until the 1973 military coup in Chile. Following
55-695: A teacher in 1969, at the Pontifical Catholic University's Institute of Music. After almost ten years, she moved to the Department of Music and Sonology at the University of Chile. In 1980 she was appointed a full professor at that university. Throughout her musical career, she has been linked to various institutions. In 1969 she joined the Ensemble of Ancient Music, a group created by Sylvia Soublette and Juana Subercaseaux at
66-573: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Carmen Luisa Letelier Carmen Luisa Letelier Valdés is a Chilean contralto and voice teacher, the winner of the National Prize for Musical Arts in 2010. Carmen Luisa Letelier is the daughter of composer Alfonso Letelier [ es ] and artist Margarita Valdés Subercaseaux. She and her brother Miguel [ es ] were influenced by their parents to take an interest in music. Letelier studied pedagogy at
77-528: The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile , where she graduated as a teacher in 1967. In 1979 she obtained her title of superior interpreter in singing at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile . There she was a student of Lila Cerda, Elvira Savi [ es ] , Federico Heinlein [ es ] , Clara Oyuela [ es ] , and Hernán Wurth. Letelier began her career as
88-413: The surname Letelier . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Letelier&oldid=1257450120 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
99-775: The Pontifical Catholic University. She has also collaborated with the Municipal Theatre of Santiago , the Domingo Santa Cruz Cultural and Artistic Extension Center, and the Isidora Zegers Salon of the Faculty of the University of Chile. In September 2010, she won the Chilean National Prize for Musical Arts , becoming the third member of her family to do so. Her father won the National Art Prize (with
110-668: The coup, she and her husband traveled first to the United States, then to Venezuela for two years. There, she met Jose Antonio Abreu , who had developed the youth orchestra program of Venezuela. She formed an early music ensemble in Venezuela, the Ars Musicae. After returning to Chile, Soublette established the San Francisco Musical Center for the study of colonial music in 1981. In 1991, she formed
121-539: Was a singer, and their father, Luis Soublette García-Vidaurre, took them to choral concerts. Their paternal grandmother was composer Rosa García Vidaurre. Sylvia Soublette began singing with her cousins at age 12. In 1941, while studying at the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones, she founded the Coro Femenino Viña del Mar. She later founded a male choir at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso and
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