Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (1973) is a

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vian composer, naturalized

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ian, who currently resides in the United States.

Biography

Born in

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, he began musical studies at the age of six, continuing to study the violin with Luis Fiestas and Veronique Daverio. In 1989, he and his family fled Peru for Brazil during the rise of the Maoist Shining Path. In

, he continued musical studies at Faculdade Santa Marcelina with Alberto Jaffe (a student of

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) and Ayrton Pinto (a former member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra). In 1998 he moved to the U.S.A. There he obtained a master's degree at

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as a student of Fredrick Kaufman and, in 2004 he graduated with a

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degree from

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as a student of

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and

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His music has been performed world-wide by ensembles such as the

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, Peruvian National Symphony, New England Philharmonic, Aspen Sinfonia, Orquesta Uninorte (Paraguay), Kyiv Camerata, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne,

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, Da Capo Chamber Players, Seattle Chamber Players, Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien, Talea Ensemble, JACK Quartet, Mivos Quartet, Borromeo String Quartet, among others. His awards include a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the

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Award from the Aspen Music Festival, Aaron Copland Award, Charles Ives Scholarship from the

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, "Bolsa de Artes" by the Associacao Vitae (a fellowship of six months to a year, under which he composed his String Quartet no. 2). He was a Fulbright scholar in Spain in 2016. His compositions have been recognized at competitions such as ALEA III International Composition Competition (finalist), New England Philharmonic Call for Scores (winner). He has been in residence at The MacDowell Colony, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and as guest composer in several festivals in the U.S. and abroad. He is a member of altaVoz a Latin American composers collective. From 2004 to 2010 he served as assistant professor of theory/composition at the

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, where he co-founded and co-directed N.E.O.N., Nevada Encounters of New Music and directed NEXTET, UNLV's new music ensemble. Since 2010, he teaches composition at

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. Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann's music began to draw inspiration from Peruvian themes once he relocated to Boston, as demonstrated by his works ''Pensar Geométrico al Trasluz'', based on César Vallejo, and "Siray" (meaning "to weave" in Quechua). Other notable works include his three-movement solo violin piece ''La Ricerca della Spiritualità Trascendente'', which takes inspiration from older models such as the flashy unaccompanied fiddle items of Bach and Bartok and his 2012 orchestral triptych "Anemoi", which was premiered at the Musical Premieres of the Season festival in

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by the

. Most recently Grossmann has begun to incorporate Peruvian indigenous instruments in compositions such as Whistling Vessels (2013).

Works

Solo Instrumental

* ''Piano Sonata'' (1993) * ''Prelude and Toccata'' for piano (1997) * ''Prelude and Fugue'' for organ (1993–97) * ''Omaggio a Berg'' for piano (1999) * ''Alma'' for violín and electronics (2000) * ''De Profundis'' for cello (2001) * ''Mechanisms (Etudes I)'' for piano (2001) * ''La Ricerca della Spiritualità Trascendente'' - for violin (2004-2005) * ''Se Había Extinguido en Nosotros una Claridad'' for bassoon (2005) * ''Sol Negro (Soleil Noir)'' for organ (2006)

Chamber music

* ''Eleusis'' for cello and piano (1994–97) * ''Quadros de Dom Quixote'' for flute, clarinet, bassoon and horn (1998) * ''Elegía Póstuma n memoriam Alfonso de Silva' for alto sax and piano (1997) * ''La Sombra es un Pedazo que se aleja'' for string quartet (1998) * ''Reflejos'' for soprano voice, flute, violin, contrabass, marimba and vibraphone (1999) * ''Dialogues and Monologues'' for oboe and piano (2000) * ''Dialogues and Monologues'' for clarinet and piano (2000) * ''Dialogues and Monologues II'' for bassoon and piano (2000) * ''Mecanismos'' for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion (2001) * ''Movement'' for string quartet (1999-2002) * ''Hinterhof-szenen''for violin and piano (2002–03) * ''String Quartet nº 1'' (2002) * ''String Quartet nº 2 ...a emaranhada forma humana corrupta da vida que muge e se aplaude'' (2003) * " String Quartet nº 3" musica funebre y nocturna (2009) * ''Siray'' for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano (2005) * ''Pensar Geométrico al Trasluz'' for recorded (or flute), cello and percussion (2005) * ''Trio'' for violin, horn and piano (2006-2011) * ''Sialia'' for clarinet, cello and piano

Large Ensemble - Chamber Orchestra

* ''Partita Concertante'' for clarinet, harpsichord, contrabass, percussion and strings (2000) * ''Away'' for 14 players (2003) * ''Sinfonietta'' for 14 players and solo soprano (based on ''Away'', text by

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) (2004)

String Orchestra

* ''Pequena Suite'' (1993) * ''Terpsychore Suite'' (1997) * ''Concerto Elegiaco'' for piano and strings (2001-2006)

Symphony Orchestra

* ''La Leyenda Ayar'' (1997–98) * ''Las Ruinas Circulares'' dance piece in four scenes (1998) * ''Pasiphaë'' (2000–02, premiered in 2003). * ''Valdrada'' (2008) * ''Anemoi'' (2011-2012) * Piano Concerto (2014) * ''Gravitacoes'' (2016)

Vocal

* ''No more walks…'' (Hollander) * ''Noche'' (

) * ''Sombra de las Voces'' (

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) * ''Pequeño Responso'' (

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)

Choral

* ''Ave Maria'' (1989) * ''O Quam Suavis'' (1997) * ''The lower leaves of trees'' (2002) * ''Yoshitada Songs'' SATB (2010)

Mixed Ensemble

* ''Aude Dictum'' narrator, violin and piano (2004)

Awards

* Fulbright Scholar Program Grant * Fromm Music Foundation Commission * John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship * Charles Ives Scholarship from the

* ALEA III International Composition Competition (finalist) * Jacob Druckman Award from the Aspen Music Festival for ''

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'' for orchestra. * Honorable mention for ''

'' for orchestra: in the "Lepo Sumera" orchestral competition in

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. * Winner of

orchestral composition competition for ''Pasiphaë''. * "Bolsa de Artes" of Asociação Vitae, of São Paulo, Brasil. * Artist Grant, St. Botolph Club Foundation

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. * Aaron Copland Award (2007)

External links

Personal web
with sound clips in MP3.
Youtube channel

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Grossmann, Jorge Villavicencio 1973 births Living people Peruvian composers Peruvian male composers Naturalized citizens of Brazil Brazilian composers Musicians from Lima Boston University College of Fine Arts alumni Pupils of Lukas Foss