Curriculum
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AURELIO
TELLO Since 1973 he has conducted
diverse choirs and vocal assemblies in Peru. In 1980 he recorded
the record Antología de la Música Peruana, Siglo XX,
Vocal-Coral (Peruvian Music Anthology, 20th Century, Vocal-Choral),
conducting the National School of Music Choir. Since 1986 he has
been a Guest Conductor for the Madrigal Singers of Bellas Artes
in Mexico, with whom he has presented numerous contemporary pieces
for the first time. Aurelio Tello lives in Mexico City since 1982, where he has done musicological research work for the Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información Musical, CENIDIM (National Center for Musical Research, Documenting and Information), from the National Institute of the Fine Arts (INBA). The following research works are worth mentioning: Tesoro de la Música Polifónica en México, (Treasure of the Polyphonic Music in Mexico), volumes III, IV, VII, VIII and X; and the book Música Barroca del Perú, Siglos XVII-XVIII (Peruvian Baroque Music, 17th and 18th Centuries), published in Lima. He has recently published the first volume of the Cancionero Musical Gaspar Fernandes (Gaspar Fernandes’s Musical Songbook), and is currently preparing a second volume with Peruvian colonial music. Many of his articles have been published in diverse magazines, and from 1993 to 1999 he was in charge of the musical page in the magazine Tiempo Libre (Free Time). He is the Conductor of the Capilla Virreinal de la Nueva España (Vice-Royal Chapel of the New Spain), with whom he has developed an important job with regards of promoting Colonial American repertoire within Mexico and abroad. He has a weekly radio program called Ecos de un Pasado Sonoro: La Música Colonial Americana (Echoes of a Sound Past: Colonial American Music). His activity as a researcher in the Mexican colonial music has given him the opportunity to participate as a guest in important congresses in Mexico, Latin America, the United States and Europe. This year (2003) he participated as a guest professor in the Granada University for the course “Baroque in Latin America”, for the 34th Granada Festival of Music and Dance. He also gave courses in Musicology at the Veracruzan University. Because of the quality in his
job, he has obtained many awards and distinctions: He has obtained grants in three occasions from the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, FONCA (National Fund for Culture and Arts): 1991, 1995, and 1999. He was also given a grant from the Mexico-US Trust (2000 and 2003). In 2001 he entered the Sistema Nacional de Creadores del FONCA (National System for Creators). He has been a jury in the summoning calls for FONCA, Mexico State Fund for Culture and Arts, and “Robert Stevenson” Musicology Award, OAS, PADID from the National Center of Arts (2001), and tutor for the Program for Young Creators, FONCA in the area of composition (1997-2000). The magazine Pauta, Cuadernos de Crítica y Teoría Musical has dedicated its last publication as an acknowledgement to his long trajectory in composing, musicology and choral conducting. |
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Academic Experience: Southwest
Texas State University EUA Stephen F. Austin State University
EUA Professional Experience: Escuela Sierra Nevada Mexico
City Coro ProMusica-Lomas Mexico
City Vocal Consort Mexico City Choir Conducting Diploma. Mexico
City Coro Arpegio de la Ciudad de
México Mexico City Iglesia Evangélica Unión
Mexico City Harlingen High School Harlingen,
Texas Southwest Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas Jones Intermedio School Waller
Texas Other Working Experience: Singing Professor (Private lessons) Member of the following
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CARLOS
GURIDI His firsts compositions were:
Suite for piano in D performed in 1989 at the “Casa de la Cultura”
theater in Tijuana, the children’s musical comedy “La Princesa caramelo”
(Rosarito BC, 1990) and, by command of the BC state governor’s sister
at the time, the anthem “Heroes of Chapultepec” (both piano and
symphonic band versions). From 1991 to 1996 he wrote music for theater,
and for the medium-length film Marea Baja, which was successfully
shown in United States and Europe. In 1997, Guridi was appointed
titular director of the Preparatory Juvenile Symphonic in the state
of Aguascalientes and associated director of the choral ensemble
Cántica Vitae, after receiving the recognition as most remarkable
conductor among the “Eduardo Mata” Sixth National Meeting for Young
Orchestra’s conductors. On December 1999 he founded the vocal quintet Santa Cecilia, performing music of the renaissance in the most important states of northern Mexico. By the end of 2000, he was appointed musical director of the Conservatory Philharmonic Orchestra and the Ensamble Coral Universitario (University Choral Ensemble) in the city of Tijuana, Mexico, and more recently, he received the third place in V National Contest of Choral Arrangement for a song composed for mixed voices based on the traditional song “El Cachanilla”. Within his extensive work as musical pedagogue, it is outstanding his labor as teacher of sol-faing, musical theory, piano and composition at the Baja California Conservatory, the School of Music of the Northwest, and the Universidad del Centro de Estudios Técnicos y Superiores CETYS (Superior and Technical Studies Central University). In 2003 he premiered under his wand, one of his most recent compositions for choir and orchestra based on a novo Hispanic carol from the XVI century. He participated as choral director in the play Il Pagliacci with the Opera of Tijuana, and as an effective student in the musical improvement course “composizione di musica per film” in Siena, Italy, where he was appointed the Accademia Chigiana scholarship due to his artistic and personal merits. In more recent years we can outline: his labor as conductor of the Rossini’s “opera bufa” The Barber of Seville, which was performed throughout the state of Baja California, his participation as musical director of the University Choral Ensemble at CETYS when in the International Choral meeting “America Cantat” in Mexico City, the composition of a 12 voices oratorio for a capella choir called “The Creation”, which was based on the fascinating pre Colombian legends of northeastern Mesoamerica and which was awarded the FOECA prestigious scholarship “Creators with Trajectory”, the composition of the incidental music for the Mexican short film “Sobre Tierra” and finally, his perfecting studies in the city of Berlin, Germany, during all 2005 year.
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G. GUADALUPE MARTINEZ SALGADO. + She was born in Mexico City, and followed a piano degree at the National School of Music of the UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) where she graduated. She obtained a scholarship to continue her studies in the United States, obtained a masters degree in piano performance at the Ithaca College of New York, and the doctorate in Piano, Musical Theory and History of Music at Michigan State University. She focused her research work to musical pedagogy aspects, including performance, from one side, as well as theory and auditory training. She gave courses of musical language in professional schools: for 16 years she taught piano, sol-faing, auditory training, musical didactics, musical initiation and sensitiveness for basic, intermediate, and bachelor degree levels. Since 1990 she was full time professor at the National School of Music of UNAM. She participated in musical education congresses in Mexico and Argentina, with lectures and publications concerning these subjects. As for her activities
as a pianist, she was part of a chamber group integrated by two
flutes, fagot and piano, which gave interactive didactical concerts
and whose objective was to elevate the auditory comprehension of
the played works, encouraging a better comprehension of the repertoire
in all diverse aspects as formal, historical, stylistic, and including
specific particularities of the musical language. |
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Her origins are Cuban, but today she became Mexican by naturalization. She obtained the bachelor degree in Choral Conducting and Score Reading in the Instituto Superior de Arte (Superior Institute of Art) of La Habana Cuba. Conductress and founder of the Chamber Choir of the “Universidad de las Américas Puebla” UDLAP (University of Las Américas in Puebla), with which she obtained in the international contest “Florilege Vocal” in Tours, France the Renaissance Program award and the II place in the Chamber Ensembles category. She has recorded two Cd’s produced by Quindecim: “Oh Tiempo” y “De Cuba pa’usté” (Cuban sones). More recently she obtained with this UDLAP group the FONCA State Scholarship (which is an economical support for artistic activities). Other recognitions she received: National Festival of Minint (Cuba) Great award, II place and mention for their performance of Cuban music in the National Festival of Art Instructor Schools which took place in Pinar del Río, Cuba. She founded and directed the cathedra in Choral Conduction in the Art Instructor School in Santa Clara, Cuba. She is professor in the Choral Conducting diploma-degree program of Voce in tempore A.C., and has conducted other groups as: the “Orfeón Santiago” (as vice conductress), and “Coral A Capella” (Puebla). Today she teaches Choral Ensembles
and Vocal Technique at Universidad de las Américas (Puebla) and
at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. |
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(b. Mexico City, December 15, 1953) Composer and conductor Jorge Córdoba did most of his musical studies at Mexico City’s National Conservatory, with later work in Composition and Direction in Spain, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, the U.S., and Hungary. He has received various awards, including the Bartók Recognition Award and the Kodaly Medal (both issued by the Hungarian government) and First Place honors in the 4th and 5th annual National Choral Composition Contests (in 2003 and 2005, respectively), as well as First Place in the 7th annual National Composition Contests for Children’s Choruses, held in 2006. He has participated in the World Music Days celebrated in Romania (1999), Ljubljana, Slovenia (2003), Croatia (2005), and Hong Kong (2007). In 2002, his work The Divine Image was commissioned for, and performed at, the 6th World Symposium of Choral Music, held in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Córdoba conducted the string orchestra of the Kuronoma Academy of Mexico City in some of his own pieces. during a tour of Japan in 2005. In 2006, he obtained a residency in the Visby International Composers’ Center in Gottland, Sweden, and in October of this same year he attended the 21st Annual Festival of Havana, Cuba, as a conductor, composer, and lecturer. In 2007 he was a participant in Mexico City’s International Forum for New Music. His music was performed by the Vancouver Chamber Chorus (conducted by Jon Washburn) during this ensemble’s “Music of the Americas” Canadian tour. Córdoba was also a composer and lecturer in the América Cantat Festival, celebrated in Havana, Cuba. He was one of the featured composers within New York City’s North/South Consonance Cinco de Mayo Celebration, with Houston’s Schola Cantorum, conducted by Doborah King. In Panama, he offered workshops and lectures in the International Caribbean and Central-American Choral Festival. He also was invited to participate with his cantata La esperanza es nuestra (Hope is Ours) in the inaugural concert of the Universal Cultural Forum of 2007, held in Monterrey, Mexico. Since 2001, Jorge Córdoba has coordinated and directed the radio program entitled Horizontes de Nuestra Música (Horizons of Our Music), transmitted in Mexico by the Opus 94 Radio Station (94.5-F.M.) |
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Born in Argentina, today she is the conductrice of the following choirs: Choir of the Morelense Center of Art, and Choir of Children at the Children's Cultural Center " La Vecindad", in the city of Cuernavaca; Morelos, México.
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JUAN
LUIS RAMIREZ He has been vocal technique teacher for the University Students Choral Program at UNAM, for the “Ensamble Coral Voce in Tempore” (choral ensemble), for the “Coro de Niños y Jovenes Cantores de la Escuela Nacional de Música (Children and Youths singers Choir of the National School of Music”, for “Tsiris” choir of Universidad La Salle, conductor of “Propuesta” and “Fratelli” choirs – this latter from the Political and Social Sciences faculty of the UNAM – and titular professor of the Singing Cathedra at the Sacred Music Superior School of Toluca. As soloist, he offered
numerous recitals over the past 17 years. Among his participations
in Opera performances are the lead role in Mozart’s “Bastian and
Bastiana”, and Tamino in “The Magic Flute”, the Harlequin in Leoncavallo´s
“The Clowns”, Paolino in Cimarrosa’s “The Secret Marriage”, The
King Gaspar in Menotti’s “Amhal and the nocturnal visitors”, the
narrator in Federico Ibarra’s “The Little Prince”, the Sorcerer
in Purcell’s “Dido and Eneas”. In this occasion he was also in charge
of the scene and costumes design, and stage direction. He has performed
the tenor solos of Bach’s “Magnificat”, Beethoven’s “Choral Fantasy”
and “Ninth Symphony”. His repertoire also includes works like Haendel’s
“Mesias”, Rossini’s “Stabat Mater”, and Mozart’s “Coronation Mass”
and “Requiem”.
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Singer, composer and choir and
orchestra conductor. Born in Mexico City. - Orchestra and Choir
Conducting Diploma, Instituto Cardenal Miranda, 1991. - Musical Conductor of the Santa
Monica Ex - Hacienda, and Conductor for the Getsemani Choir. At present, Victor Luna
is a Vocal Ensemble Professor in the Superior School of Music, INBA,
the Conductor for the Children’s Choir in Valle de Bravo,
state of Mexico, as well as the Artistic Conductor for the Convivium
Musicum Choir, since 2001. |
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RAMÍREZ ZAPATA
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She studied at the National School of Music, UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico), both piano and Musical Education. At the same time, she started her studies in Choir Conducting with several Mexican professors. Later, she took several courses with Jorge Medina and Erika Kubascek, and then she made her specialization in Choir Conducting at the Cardenal Miranda Institute, under the guidance of Xavier González. She has taken specialized courses in Cuba, Argentina, Spain and the Netherlands with outstanding professors: Carmen Collado, Ma. Felicia Pérez, Electo Silva, Gunnar Ericson, Werner Pfaff, Néstor Andrenacci Christian Grübe, Láslo Hetlay and Alberto Grau. In Spain she was granted the Andrés Segovia Poliphony Award when she was studying with Pascual Ortega. In 1995 she received a scholarship granted by FONCA (National Foundation for Culture and Arts) as an acknowledgment for her prestigious labor with Voce in Tempore, a Choral Ensemble she founded 17 years ago with the aim of singing polyphonic music with amateur singers. In 1998 she was invited to attend the Choir Conductors Congress in Wisconsin, USA. She was also invited to attend with Voce in Tempore the International Choir Festival in Santiago de Cuba, in 1995 and 1997. In November 1998 she toured with the National School of Music Children’s Choir, as an Assistant Director, to Chicago, Illinois, for the National Convention of Musical Educators. In 1999 she attended the 5th International Choir Symposium in Rotterdam, and in September she is invited to participate in a meeting in order to form the Caribbean and Central America Choir Federation, to be held in Puerto Rico. For three years she was Treasurer and Communication Vice-president. In August 2002 she attends the VI International Symposium for Choral Music in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is a member of the Ethnic Commission for the International Federation of Choral Music; she is President of Voce in Tempore Civil Association, whose objective is to promote and spread choral music. For seven years she conducted a radio program, Musica EnCantada, broadcast every Monday by OPUS 94, a radio station from the Mexican Radio Institute (IMER). She received support from FONCA during one year for this program. In 2004 she received the National Award from the Theater and Music Chroniclers, for her outstanding activity in front of Voce in Tempore Civil Association. At present she is Assistant Conductor of the National School of Music Children’s Choir; Conductor of Tsiris, the La Salle University Children Ensemble; Coordinator of the UNAM University Choir Program; and Conductor of Voce in Tempore Choir Ensemble. She is also the Academic Coordinator
of the Choir Conducting Diploma, given by Voce in Tempore Civil
Association, a program supported by FONCA, and with the recognition
of the National Institute for the Fine Arts (INBA.)
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