Musicologist Miriam Escudero

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LECTURE
Cuba's Sacred Musical Heritage: Composers Esteban Salas and Cayetano Pagueras
Dr. Miriam Escudero, musicologist
Tuesday, April 28, 8:00 a.m.
Room 219, Music Practic Building. Free

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Cuban musicologist Miriam Escudero returns to MSU in order to co-curate a Choral Union/University Chorale concert devoted to Latin American choral works that includes a 19th-century score she brought back to life. Dr. Escudero will offer a public lecture on her work as director of the "Esteban Salas" Musical Heritage Cabinet of the Havana City Historian Office.

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Biography

Recognized as one of Cuba’s leading musicologists, Miriam Escudero is Director of the “Esteban Salas” Musical Heritage Cabinet of the Havana City Historian Office. She is also Professor at Colegio Universitario San Gerónimo, where she coordinates graduate studies in musical heritage preservation, and at The University of Arts of Cuba (ISA), where she teaches graduate-level courses. Among her recent publications is Música Sacra de Cuba, Siglo XVIII, a nine-volume annotated collection of transcriptions of works by Esteban Salas (1725-1803) and Cayetano Pagueras (18th & 19th centuries). Escudero’s research has earned her important national awards such as Premio Casa de las Americas, Premio de la Academia de Ciencias de Cuba and, most recently, the 2013 Premio Academia Cubana de la Lengua.

Currently, Miriam Escudero is Director and Editor of the two ongoing series: Patrimonio Musical Cubano, published by CIDMUC, and Documentos Sonoros del Patrimonio Musical Cubano. For fifteen years she was a member of the internationally known Ars Longa, an early music ensemble that pioneered historical performances in Cuba. She holds a doctoral degree from the Universidad de Valladolid, Spain, and a bachelor’s degree in musicology from the The University of Arts of Cuba (ISA).