About:
De-(com)poser
Born 1987
Mexican living in UK
Play Violin
Currently: PhD in music, Oxford
Never been to Japan
2 0 1 9:
|
It is a great honour to be awarded the 2019 Henfrey Price for Composition at the University of Oxford with my piece Ceci n'est pas un duo for violin and piano. I want to give a special mention to St John’s College and the Clarendon Fund that supported my studies and career in music; and, to the other shortlisted composers whose work was very inspiring. link |
|
World premiere: The minimum distance -said she- for clarinet and timpani. will be premiered by Cepromusic ensemble at Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City. Info. 
|
|
|
B L A N C O for voice and piano world premiere written for Sarah Maria Sun and it is based on the poem Blanco by the Nobel Prize Octavio Paz. Will be performed on the 25th October at Festival Vertice 2019, UNAM. |
|
PROTOTYPE VI at ROYAUMONT Session 3/3 – Building in progress and public presentation (from Wednesday 13 August to Sunday 1st September 2019). During my residency at Royaumont I have worked/collaborated with the Swedish and French choreographers Gilda Stillbäck and Clémence Baubant respectively. Visit the gallery! |
|
Writing music for dance, choreographing dance to music.
I am currently taking part of a research residency Prototype VI at Royaumont. Applying different methodologies for engaging the music-making body and incorporating physical movement as material for composition, enacting both physical movement and sound-production (action/sound relationships), as well working on gestual analysis.
more...
.ManiFeste-2019 I am thrilled to have been selected to participate for second time at ManiFeste 2019 IRCAM, with a new piece for Ensemble Nikel (electric guitar, piano and electronics).  ISLE © Jinjoon Lee
|
KLANGVEJE A musical hike throughout Denmark I received a grant by the Danish art foundation for an artistic residency in Denmark during 2019, in collaboration with the guitarist Frederik Munk Larsen more... project in intermedia composing at the University of Oxford I am collaborating with the corean artist JinJoon Lee and Peter Price from the Ruskin School of Art as a part of ANIMA new music with animation at Oxford. |
|
The love song for violin and viola is based in the poem of T. S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Will be premiered by Aperture duo |
|
recordings:
|
Four darks in red
In many ways I have incorporated image into the music practice. The relationship between music composition, and art is explored through subject matter, materials, and the overall interaction of the elements within the creative process. Premiered by Elision ensemble.
more...
|
|
Icebergs breaking under cloudy skies
Premiered by Wild Up ensemble at the Noon To Midnight Festival, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, 2017. As a result of my participation at the LA Phil's National Composers Intensive 2017.
|
|