Beatriz Ferreyra

Beatriz Mercedes Ferreyra (born 21 June 1937) is an Argentine composer.

Ferreyra was born in Cordoba, Argentina, and studied piano with Celia Bronstein in Buenos Aires. She continued her study of music with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and Edgardo Canton, Earle Brown and Gyorgy Ligeti in Germany.

In 1963 she took a position in the research department of the Office de Radiodiffusion Television Francaise (ORTF), working with the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) directed by Pierre Schaeffer. She assisted with Henri Chiarucci's and Guy Reibel's Rapport entre la hauteur et la fondamentale d'un son musical, published in 1966 in Revue Internationale d'Audiologie and Pierre Schaeffer's Solfage de l'Objet Sonore. During this time she also lectured at the Conservatoire National Superierur de Musique de Paris. She worked with Bernard Baschet and his Structures Sonores in 1970, and served residencies in electronic music with Dartmouth College in 1976 and in 1998.

Works

Ferreyra has composed for music therapy, events, ballets and film soundtracks. Selected works include:

• Canto del Loco (1974)
• Cantos de antes (2002)
• Dans un point infini
• Impasse (2008) with Inés Wickmann
• Les larmes de l’inconnu (2011)
• Marche, quitte et va (2008) with Christine Groult
• Médisances (1968)
• Mer d’Azov, étude aux itérations (1963)
• L’art de l’étude (2006)
• L’orviétan (1970)
• La rivière des oiseaux (2003)
• Petit Poucet magazine (1985)
• Ríos del sueno (1998–2000)• Río de los pájaros • Río de los pájaros escondidos • Río de los *pájaros azules
• La rivière des oiseaux (2003)
• Siesta Blanca (1972)
• Souffle d’un petit Dieu distrait (1987)
• Sourire de l’ange (2006) with Christine Groult
• La condition captive (2006)
• The UFO Forest (1986)
• Vivencias (2001)

Her works have been issued on CD, including:

• Petit Poucet Magazine (CD) Le Chant Du Monde 1998
• La Rivière des oiseaux(CD) Motus 2003