Maria Teresa Luengo is an Argentine composer and musicologist.
Background
Maria Teresa Luengo was born in Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina in Buenos Aires in 1969, where she studied with Alberto Ginastera, Luis Gianneo, Juan Francisco Giacobbe, Roberto Caamaño and Gerardo Gandini.
Career
In 1973 she was awarded a scholarship that allowed her to contintue her studies in electro-acoustic music with Francisco Krópfl, Gerardo Gandini, Femando Von Reichenbach, Gabriel Bmcyc, and Peter Maxwell Davies at the Center of Art and Communication (CAYC). During this time she was invited to participate in a year-long seminar on contemporary music during which she composed The Book of Mirrors. From 1974-1975 she taught at the University of El Salvador, and in 1984 began teaching composition at the National University of Louisiana Plata.
From 1972-1993, she also taught at the Municipal School of Fine Arts Carlos Morel of Quilmes.
In 1990 she designed the curriculum for study in Music Electroacústica of the National University of Quilmes and worked as director and professor of composition within the program