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Hebert Vázquez

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Uruguayan Composer

Hebert Vázquez was a pupil of Mario Lavista in composition and Marco Antonio Anguiano in guitar at the National Conservatory of Mexico City from 1981 to 1989. In 1989 he studied composition with Leonardo Balada and Lukas Foss and electronic music with Reza Vali at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he earned a Master of Music degree. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition from the University of British Columbia (1996-1999), Canada.

Hebert Vázquez has received several awards and scholarships in Mexico and abroad, including the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition (2008), two Young Composers fellowships of the Mexican National Fund for Culture and Arts (1990 and 1994) and a Senior Composer Fellowship granted by the State Fund for Culture and Arts in 1994. In 1998 his Sonata for Guitar received second prize at the Jaurès Lamarque-Pons International Guitar Composition Competition in Montevideo, Uruguay. The following year Mr. Vázquez became a member of Mexico´s National System of Art Creators. His works have been performed in important festivals in Europe, Asia and the Americas. From 1991 to 1995 he was full-time professor of composition, counterpoint, and harmony, as well as head of the theory department, at the Music Conservatory of Mexico State. In 2000 he became a full-time professor at the University of Morelia.

Hebert Vázquez´s works have been recorded by performers such as the Arditti String Quartet, the Ensemble Nomad, Norio Sato, Juan Carlos Laguna, the Onix ensemble, Ensamble 3, and Gonzalo Salazar, among others. 

Mr. Vázquez is also a lecturer in Schenkerian Analysis and Atonal Theory at several academic institutions in Mexico. He is the author of several articles on atonal music theory and analysis, and he has published the books Fundamentos teóricos de la música atonal (UNAM-FONCA, 2006) and Cuaderno de viaje: un posible itinerario analítico en torno a Simurg y Ficciones de Mario Lavista (CMMAS-FONCA, 2009).


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