Georgs Pelēcis

Georgs Pelēcis (born 18 June 1947) is a Latvian composer and musicologist. He is currently a Professor at the Latvian Academy of Music.

Composition career

Pelēcis studied under Aram Khachaturian at the Moscow Conservatory, and has worked in a creative capacity at Oxford University and Cambridge University. His style is best described as "new consonant music", notable for its "amazingly clear positive spirit"^[1].

Notable works include:

• Revelation, Concerto for counter-tenor, piano, and trumpet
• Nevertheless, Concerto for violin, piano, and strings
• Buena-Riga
• The Last Song
• Flowering Jasmine, Concerto for violin, vibraphone, and strings
• Jack and the Beanstalk, Music for the Roald Dahl Fable for symphony orchestra and narrators

Musicology career

Pelēcis' musicological work focuses on musical form in work from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque eras. He has written theses focusing on the work of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Johannes Ockeghem^[2].

Pelēcis teaches the history of theory and counterpoint at the Latvian Academy of Music, and was the first president of the Riga Center for Early Music^[3].

References

External links

• Georgs Pelēcis at the Latvian Music Information Centre