Mesías Maiguashca

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Mesías Maiguashca (born 24 December 1938 in Quito) is an Ecuadorian composer.

He is an advocate of the New Music, especially of electronic music in the milieu of Karlheinz Stockhausen.

He pursued his musical educationat the Conservatorio de Quito, the Eastman School of Music, in Rochester, NY, the Instituto di Tella in Buenos Aires, and at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, where he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen.

He worked in the Electronic Music Studio of the Westdeutschen Rundfunk in Cologne and at a number of other facilities in Europe and has taught in Metz, Stuttgart, Basel, and Quito, amongst other places. From 1990 to 2004 he was Professor of Electronic Music at the Musikhochschule Freiburg im Breisgau.

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