Jorge Peña Hen
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Jorge Peña Hen, conducting Phillarmonic Orchestra of La Serena, Chile
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Jorge Washington Peña Hen January 16, 1928 Santiago de Chile, Chile |
| Died | October 16, 1973 (aged 45) La Serena, Chile |
| Nationality | Chilean |
| Known for | "Chopin" by his friends |
Jorge Washington Peña Hen (January 16, 1928 – October 16, 1973) was a Chilean composer and an academic at the University of Chile. He was murdered by the Caravan of Death.
His children's opera La Cenicienta was composed in 1966. It was restaged in 2004 by Fondazione Teatro La Fenice, and in 2005 by University of Chile's Theatre in Santiago Chile.
He was the son of Mrs. Vitalia Hen Muñoz and Dr. Tomás Peña Fernandez, medical Mayor, alderman, social actors and political leader, founder of the Socialist Party in the region of Coquimbo, and mediator of peace in the only air and sea battle took place in the port (1931). Jorge was the eldest of three brothers. From an early age he demonstrated his leadership and talent as a composer and creator, writing his first piece at age fourteen. At 19 years old, into his beloved institution, the University of Chile, his qualities were felt immediately as an organizer, founding, along with Gustavo Becerra Alfonso Castagnetto and Sergio Canut de Bon, the magazine "Psalterium", to collect both the concerns of students of the National Conservatory, including concerns about the Chilean art world in general.
After graduating from piano and viola he entered the National Conservatory to study Composition and Conducting with the most renowned Chilean teachers. Performing parallel as President of Student Center and introducing important reforms for the benefit of music and art.
In 1950 he moved to La Serena with his wife, pianist Nella Camarda and made the Bach Society, in a city where there was no cultural activity. He created a Philharmonic Orchestra, Polyphonic Choir and Chamber Groups that transformed the northern city in an important musical and cultural center. He created the Regional Conservatory of Music, which became the first Distribution of the University of Chile in the province. He produced cultural diffusion in La Serena and northern Chile through concerts in theaters, schools and outdoor festivals of choirs, musical and historical tours, Christmas Retablos, multitudinous shows which involved the whole city. He developed the Body of Dance and Performing Arts department at the Conservatorio Regional eaves. Complex choral symphony premiered works to date not been implemented in Chile, operas, music festivals and gatherings Symphonic American teachers.
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