Columbian musician, Jacqueline Nova Sondag (1935 – 1975) was a composer and author, who “was a pioneering figure of electroacoustic music in Columbia”. She studied the piano at the Columbian National Conservatory of Music where she was the first female student to graduate with a masters. After winning a prestigious award at the Third Festival of Latin American Music (1966), she studied composition at the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios (CLAEM).
Nova became interested in fusion music, after studying at CLAEM, and collaborated with artists from other fields (e.g. theatre). These caused many of Nova’s works to have visual elements integrated in them. Nova’s compositions have been performed all around the world, including France, Germany and the United States of America. As well as composing, Nova wrote several articles for newspapers, such as Bogota Nova.
She directed Asimetrías, a radio series which presented 22 sessions of new music works, and established the New Music Group to introduce Latin American composers to the world. However, she unfortunately had bone cancer, which ended her participation in this, and she died on the 13th June 1975. Overall, Nova composed in a wide range of genres from orchestral to film scores. However, due to her ill-health, Nova produced a limited number of compositions.
Here’s her piano solo, Fantasia:
References:
Jacqueline Nova: Creación de la Tierra | Blaffer Art Museum
Jacqueline del Carmen Nova Sondag – Jacqueline Nova. Artista | ARTEINFORMADO
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