GABRIELA ORTIZ - MÉXICO
BORN 20 DECEMBER
Gabriela Ortiz (born 1964) is a Mexican music educator and composer.
Gabriela Ortiz Torres was born in Mexico City of parents who were folk musicians. She learned folk music at home, and then studied in Paris 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 at the National Conservatory of Music. She continued her studies at the Guildhall School with Robert Saxton, and with Simon Emmerson at the University of London 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 in the United States.
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.
She has been honored with the National Prize for Arts and Literature, (the most important award for writers and artists given by the government of Mexico), The Mexican Academy of Arts, Civitella Ranieri Artistic Residency; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; the Fulbright Fellowship; the First prize of the Silvestre Revueltas National Chamber Music Competition, the First Prize at the Alicia Urreta Composition Competition; Banff Center for the Arts Residency; the Inroads Commission, a program of Arts International with funds from the Ford Foundation; the Rockefeller Foundation and the Mozart Medal Award.
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La Calaca by Gabriela Ortiz
La Calaca by Gabriela Ortiz
MARGARETA FEREK-PETRIC
BORN 20 DECEMBER
Margareta Ferek Petric was born 1982 in Zagreb, Croatia.
She studied composition with Ivan Eröd, Chaya Czernowin and Klaus Peter Sattler at The University of Music and performing Arts in Vienna. She was granted scholarships from various institutions and foundations (Home Suisse Foundation, Thyll-Dürr Foundation, Czibulka Foundation, Austrian Ministry of Culture, Office of the Austrian federal Chancellor - State Scholarship for Composers, etc.).
In 2010, she was invited for a working stay in Casa Zia Lina on Elba by the Thyll-Dürr Foundation and in 2011 she received a "Theodor Körner award" for an orchestral composition "Take 7".
Since 2015 she is working as a part of the managing committee of the Austrian Society for Contemporary Music (ÖGZM). In 2016 Croatia was represented by Margareta's music on "63rd International Rostrum Of Composers".
In 2018 Ferek-Petric was an Artist in Residence of the Carinthian Summer Music Festival, she was awarded with Croatian prizes "Josip Stolcer Slavenski Award" (best composition in Croatia in 2017 – „All the world´s a stage") and "Boris Papandopulo Award" (Croatian composers society award for "All the world´s a stage").
In the USA her piece "Beastie Poetry" reached the finals of the composition competition held by Flute New Music Consortium. Few of her latest works have been recorded on albums published by Decca Records and Croatia Records.
Margareta´s music is being regularly commissioned and performed by renowned ensembles, instrumentalists and festivals, as well as played in radio stations around the world.
She lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
Source: Babel Scores and Margareta Ferek-Petric
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Mad Darkness by Margareta Ferek-Petric
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