Beatriz Ferreyra was born in Córdoba, Argentina, and studied piano with Celia Bronstein in Buenos Aires. She traveled to Paris to continue her music studies with the prestigious Nadia Boulanger (Astor Piazzolla’s teacher), in addition to studying with Edgardo Canton, Earle Brown and György Ligeti in Germany.
In 1963 she accepted a position in the research department of the Broadcasting Office of French television (ORTF), working with the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) directed by Pierre Schaeffer. She attended with Henri Chiarucci’s and Guy Reibel’s Rapport entre la hauteur et la fondamentale d’un son musical, published in 1966 in Pierre Schaeffer’s Revue Internationale d’audiologie and Solfage de l’Objet Sonore. During this time she also taught at the Conservatoire National Supérieure de Musique in Paris.1 She worked with Bernard Baschet and his Structures Sonores in 1970, and studied electronic music at Dartmouth College in 1976 and in 1998.2
Among her works, Aquatic Mansions (1967), Siesta Blanca (1972) and La rivières des oiseaux (1998) stand out, developing unique climates that evoke the richness of natural soundscapes.