Eduardo Alberto Escalante

Eduardo Alberto Escalante

Works for Cello

Cantilena (1978), for cello and string orchestra.

Sources:

  • Furman Schleifer, M., and Galván, G. (2016). Latin American Classical Composers, A Biographical Dictionary. London: Rowman & Littlefield.

  • Marcano, G. (2004). Música latinoamericana para violonchelo. Catálogo de obras. Fundación Vicente Emilio Sojo.

  • Ponteio Publishing, Inc. (n.d.). Composers. Ponteio Publishing. https://www.ponteiomusic.com/about-us-cjg9

Eduardo Alberto Escalante

Brazilian composer, conductor and pedagogue, born February 14, 1937.

Eduardo Alberto Escalante was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on February 14, 1937. In 1949, he settled in Brazil, and there he studied composition and conducting at the Escola Superior de Música Santa Marcelina of São Paulo, graduating with a degree in piano performance in 1960. After he graduated, he continued his musical studies with an emphasis in conducting with Emmerich Csammer and Diogo Pacheco, harmony, analysis and counterpoint with Osvaldo Lacerda, and composition with Camargo Guarnieri and Souza Lima.

Escalante founded and directed numerous musical ensembles throughout Brazil (including both choral and orchestral ensembles). He later founded the Associação de Músicos e Compositores do Estado de São Paulo, and served as the president of Sociedade Pró-Música Brasileira. The Museu da Imagem e do Som (MIS) commissioned him to study folk traditions among the Paraíba river region (located in São Paulo) in 1973-4, which would later inspire other projects in Escalante’s career. 

Escalante is a highly celebrated composer, having won awards such as the João de Barro trophy as composer of the year (1969), and the São Paulo Association of Art Critics (APCA) for his first symphony in 1990.