Alejandro Iglesias-Ross was born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1960. He studied composition at the Boston Conservatory of Music and the Conser- vatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris. He received the First Prize of the International Rostrum of Composers (Pa-ris 85), the First Prize of the International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music (Amsterdam 96) -both Rostra organized by UNESCO's International Music Council-, the Nadia Boulanger Scholarship (Paris 88), as well as other distinctions (Kazimierz Serocki Prize, Warsaw 84;TRINAC Prize, Buenos Aires 85; Musikprotokoll Prize, Graz 86; WDR-Forum Junge Komponisten, K61n 92; Pittsburgh New Music Festival, Pittsburgh 92). He has been a member of the Jury at the UNESCO's Prize of Honor for Music (Paris 91) and the World Music Days (Warsaw 92). His works have been performed at different Contemporary Music Festivals (Berlin Biennale, Festival d'Orleans, Warsaw Autumn, Steirischer Herbst, Dresden Tage, World Music Days, Foro de MOsica Nueva-Mexico, Spaziomusica, etc.). He currently produces a weekly series of Radio programs at the Radio of the City of Buenos Aires dedicated to explore the crossroads between spirituality and contemporary music, and teaches Composition at the CEAMC (Center for Advanced Studies in Contemporary Music). His principal compositions are: "Ancestral Rites of a Forgotten Culture", for soprano and percussion ensemble (84), "Manchay Puitu", for soprano, flute and two percussions (87), "Crying Silences (Six Quechua Songs)", for cello solo (88), "The Howl of a Thousand Throat@', for soprano, recitant, mixed choir and orchestra (90), "Khipus II", for string quartet (92), "Angelus", for solo tape (96), and "Ascensi6n (Las Tierras Nuevas), for solo tape (98). His works are published by Moeck Verlag (Germany). (Las Tierras Nuevas),1998, 10:50: 'Now / saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then 1, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adomed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himseff will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.' Book of Revelation 21, 1-4.