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Education |
| | Studied composition with Julio Estrada in Mexico, Joji Yuasa, Jean-Charles François and Brian Ferneyhough in the United States.
Holds Ph.D. and Master degrees in composition from the University of California at San Diego.
Participated in summer courses at IRCAM (1992) and Darmstadt (1990 and 1992) |
Performances |
| | Ignacio Baca-Lobera's music has been performed in several festivals:
- Xenakis Festival (1988, San Diego)
- ISCM (1991, Zürich, 1993, Mexico and 1999, Rumania)
- Darmstadt (1990, 1992, 1994 and 2004, Germany)
- Foro de Musica Nueva (1995, 1997, 1998-2006, Mexico)
- Festival Cervantino (1994, 2005 and 2006, Mexico)
- Foro de Compositores del caribe (2000 and 2002, Puerto Rico)
- El Callejon del Ruido (1996 and 1997, Mexico)
- Musik im Schömer-Haus (1998, Austria)
- Primavera en la Habana (2002, Cuba)
- Festival Radar Mexico City (2004, 2005, 2006, Mexico)
- Bludenzer Tage Zeitgemäßer Musik (2004, Austria)
- 20th Festival Internacional de Michoacan (2005, Mexico)
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Prizes and Awards |
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- Honorable mention at Jose Pablo Moncayo contest for orchestra (Mexico 1982)
- Honorable mention Lan Adomian contest for chamber music (1980, Mexico)
- Finalist at New Music Today (1988, Japan)
- Finalist Kranichsteiner Musikpreis at Darmstadt for Trios y dobles (1992, Germany)
- Awarded an artist's salary from the Fondo Nacional para las Artes, (1992-1993, Mexico)
- First place of the 17th Irino Prize for orchestral music in Tokyo (1996, Japan)
Since April of 1997 he is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores of Mexico.
In June of 2001 he was appointed fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation for one year.
His chamber and orchestral music explore techniques such as random processes, microtonalism, Network Theory and graphic approaches to composition.
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