Gabriela Ortiz (born 1964) is a
Mexican music educator and
composer.
Biography
Gabriela Ortiz Torres was born in
Mexico City
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of parents who were folk musicians. She learned folk music at home, and then studied in
Paris
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at the Ecole Normale de Musique. She returned to Mexico City due to the illness of her mother, and studied composition there with
Mario Lavista
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Life and career
Lavista was born in Mexico City. He enrolled the Composition Workshop (Taller de Composición) at the National Conservatory in 19 ...
at the National Conservatory of Music. She continued her studies at the
Guildhall School
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with
Robert Saxton
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, and with
Simon Emmerson
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at the
University of London
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where she received a PhD in 1996. After completing her studies, she took a position at the National School of Music at the National Autonomous University in Mexico City. She also taught at
Indiana University
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in the United States.
Music
Ortiz incorporates conventional notation techniques in her compositions, which have contemporary, rock, African and Afro-Cuban influences. She has also composed pieces that incorporate experimental electro-acoustic elements.
Honors and awards
*Civitella Ranieri Artistic Residency
*John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
*Fulbright Fellowship
*Distincion Universidad Nacional
*First prize of the Silvestre Revueltas National Chamber Music Competition
*First Prize at the Alicia Urreta Composition Competition
*Composers Award Mexican Council for the Arts and Culture
*National Artists System Fellowship from the Mexican Council for the Arts and Culture
*Banff Center for the Arts Residency
*Inroads Commission, a Program of Arts International with funds from the Ford Foundation
*Rockefeller Foundation
*Mozart Medal Award for Mexican Theatre and Music as the best composer of 1997
*The Fundacion Cultural Bancomer Award
Selected works
Dance scores
* ''Hacia La Deriva'' (1989)
* ''Eve and All the Rest'' (1991)
* ''Errant maneuvers'' (1993)
Orchestral
* ''Patios'' (1989)
* ''Concierta candela'' (1993) for solo percussion and orchestra
* ''Altar de Neón'' (1995) for percussion quartet and chamber orchestra
* ''Zocalo-Bastilla'' (1996) for violin, percussion, and orchestra
* ''Zocalo Tropical'' (1998) for flute, percussion, and orchestra
* ''Altar de Piedra'' (2002) for percussion and orchestra, commissioned by the
Los Angeles Philharmonic
* ''Altar de Fuego'' (2010) for orchestra
* ''Altar de Viento'' (2015) for flute and orchestra
* ''Hominum — Concerto for Orchestra'' (2016)
* ''
Téenek — Invenciones de Territorio'' (2017) for orchestra, commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic
* ''
Yanga'' (2019) for percussion quartet, chorus, and orchestra, commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic
* ''
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'' (2021) for orchestra, commissioned by the
New York Philharmonic
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* ''
Altar de Cuerda'' (2021) violin concerto, commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic
* ''
Kauyumari'' (2021) for orchestra, commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Opera
* ''Unicamente La Verdad'' (2010), libretto by Ruben Ortiz
Electro-acoustic
* ''Magna Sin'' (1992) for steel drum and tape
* ''5 Micro Etudes'' (1992) for tape
* ''Things Like That Happened'' (1994) for cello and tape
* ''El Trompo'' (1994) for vibraphone and tape
* ''Altar de Muertos'' (1996) for string quartet and tape
Other works
* ''100 Watts'' (1998) for clarinet, bassoon, piano
* ''Baalkah'' (1999) for soprano and string quartet
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* ''Seis piezas a Violeta'' (2002) for string quartet and piano
* ''Corporea'' (2014) for mixed chamber ensemble, commissioned by San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
Partial discography
Her compositions have been recorded and issued on CD including:
*''Denibée'' by Gabriela Ortiz, Alejandro Escuer (Audio CD - 2014)
*''Aroma Foliando'' by Gabriela Ortiz, Southwest Chamber Music (Audio CD - 2013)
*''Altar de Muertos'' by Gabriela Ortiz, Arturo Nieto-Dorantes, and Sarah Leonard (Audio CD - 2006)
*''Tear'' by Ruth Crawford Seeger, Gabriela Ortiz, Silvestre Revueltas, Adriana Isabel Figueroa Mañas, and Alberto Ginastera (Audio CD - 2003)
*''Visiones Panamericanas'' by Tania Leon, Eugenio Toussaint, Gabriela Ortiz, Roberto Sierra, and Richard Felciano (Audio CD - 2002)
*''Mi Chelada'' by Alejandro Cardona, Gabriel Ruiz, Astor Piazzolla, Miguel del Aguila, and Enrico Chapela (Audio CD - 2000)
*''Ritmicas'' by Minoru Miki, Santiago Ojeda, Gabriela Ortiz, Amadeo Roldan, and Eugenio Toussaint (Audio CD - 1997)
*''Musica Sinfonica Mexicana'' by Silvestre Revueltas, Federico Ibarra, Gabriela Ortiz, Manuel Enriquez, and Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia (Audio CD - 1997)
References
External links
Official composer page
Composer bio and recording of Corporea
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
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1964 births
Living people
20th-century classical composers
Mexican women classical composers
Mexican classical composers
Musicians from Mexico City
Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Alumni of the University of London
Jacobs School of Music faculty
Mexican women music educators
21st-century classical composers
20th-century women composers
21st-century women composers
Mexican music educators