Sospeso performs music by Luis Campodónico on the American Voices concert at the Americas Society Fortieth Anniversary Celebration on November 9, 2005.   

Composer, pianist, and author Luis Campodónico was born in Montevideo in 1931. He gave his first concert as a pianist at age fourteen. He studied composition with Enrique Casal Chapi and Carlos Estrada in Montevideo and musicology with Jacques Chialley in Paris, where he lived from 1956 to 1961 on scholarships from both the Uruguayan and French governments.

Active as a composer and also as a musicologist and author, he wrote the first comprehensive biography of Manuel de Falla, published in Paris in 1959. He returned to Uruguay in 1951 and worked as a teacher, journalist, and radio broadcaster until his second move to Paris in 1964. He died in the French capital in 1973. Also a prolific writer in Spanish and French, Campodónico abandoned music altogether in 1964 and dedicated his creative energy to literature.