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Mario
Lavista
Member
of the Jury
MARIO
LAVISTA. Was born in México City in 1943. In 1987 he
was awarded a grant from the Guggenheim foundation in order
to write his single-act opera Aura, and was named member of
the Academy of Arts. In 1991 he received the National Prize
of Science and Arts and a Mozart Medal, and two years later
the National Council for Culture and Arts distinguished him
as an emeritus creator. In 1998 he was admitted to the National
College, a prestigious academic institution in Mexico. During
his final years there he worked in close relationship with
some notable instrumentalists who were interested in the exploration
and investigation of new technical and expressive possibilities
that their traditional instruments could offer. He has been
invited as composition and analysis teacher at Indiana University,
at the Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida) and at the University
of Chicago. He has given conferences and seminars at Cornell
University (N.Y.), the University of California at San Diego
(UCSD), New York University (NYU), San Francisco State University
and Illinois Wesleyan University, among others. He was the
guest composer at the 2002 Composition Meeting of the Youth
Institution, Mollina (Malaga) and at the seminar "The
Prepared Piano" by John Cage (September 2002) at Riva
del Garda (Italy). He has composed music from films: Judea,
Semana Santa entre los coros, María Sabina, mujer espíritu,
El niño Fidencio, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz,
and Cabeza de Vaca by the Mexican producer Nicolas Echevarria.
He currently teaches professorship classes of composition,
musical language and analysis of the 20th century at the National
Music Conservatorium and is director of Pauta, theory and musical
critics notebooks.
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