Download or read book Alcides Lanza written by Pamela Jones and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian-Argentinean pianist and composer alcides lanza is internationally renowned for his avant-garde approach to percussion, electroacoustics, and music theatre in works such as eidesis II, sensors III, un mundo imaginario, and vôo. Director of the Electronic Music Studio at McGill University since 1974, lanza was recognized by the Organization of American States with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996 and by the Canada Council for the Arts with the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award in 2003.