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About
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.
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