Pozzi Escot


Olga Pozzi Escot is a Peru-born American composer, music theorist, and faculty member at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts.

Life

Pozzi Escot was born in Lima, Peru, her father was a French diplomat. She lived in Peru for five years, then returned to France.
Back in Peru, between 1949 and 1953 she studied at the Academy of Music Sas-Rosay.
At the end of 1953, she emigrated to the United States to attend Reed College in Portland, Oregon, becoming a citizen three years later. Between 1954 and 1957 she studied at the Juilliard School, where she graduated with a degree in composition and Bachelor in Arts.
She is a graduate of the Musikhochschule-Hamburg.
She is author of The Poetics of Simple Mathematics in Music, co-author of Sonic Design: The Nature of Sound and Music and since 1980, Editor-in-Chief of the self-published music journal Sonus. She has written over thirty articles developing and discussing the relationship between music and mathematics. Her works are recorded on Delos, Neuma, Spectrum, Leo, Music & Arts and Centaur labels and published by Publication Contact International.
Pozzi Escot resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her partner, composer and theorist Robert Cogan.