International Requirement Committee

The Chilean-American composer Miguel Chuaqui was born in 1964, in Berkeley, California, and he grew up in Chile. His musical education began in Santiago, at the Escuela Moderna de Música, and it continued later at the Universidad Católica de Chile. In 1984 he moved back to California, and, after finishing college, he went on to pursue graduate studies in composition (1987-1994) under the guidance of Mr. Andrew Imbrie at the University of California at Berkeley. He has also studied with John Thow and Edwin Dugger, and, during 1994-96, he was an associate composer at CNMAT.