Arturo Marquez

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Jesús Arturo Márquez Navarro (born December 20, 1950 in Álamos ) is a Mexican composer . He is particularly known for his symphonic works, which integrate idioms of Mexican folk music into the orchestral sound.

Life

Márquez was born as the eldest of nine children of a mariachi musician in Álamos in the northern Mexican province of Sonora . His grandfather was also a musician and played Mexican folk and salon music; So he was already familiar with several musical styles in his childhood and received his first piano lessons in Mexico. The family later emigrated to California and settled in La Puente near Los Angeles, where Márquez attended high school and began playing the trombone at the age of 14 and the tuba a short time later, as well as taking violin lessons received.

At the age of 17, he returned to Mexico with his family in September 1968. The family settled in Navojoa, Sonora. There Márquez played the trombone in the Banda Municipal and a short time later became its leader. In 1970 he moved to Mexico City, where he studied at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música until 1975 and passed the state examination as a performing artist in the field of piano. Meanwhile he married the harpist Lidia Tamayo and had two children with her. He then studied composition at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes with Federico Ibarra , Joaquín Gutiérrez Heras and Héctor Quintanar . In 1980, Márquez and Lidia Tamayo won a grant from the French government. Márquez then deepened his composition studies at the Paris Conservatory with Jacques Castérède and Ivo Malec for two years . Then Márquez returned to Mexico City. He made a name for himself as a composer of electroacoustic music. Eventually he received a Fulbright Scholarship in the USA and earned a master's degree in composition from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, where he studied with Morton Subotnick , Mel Powell , Lucky Mosko and James Newton .

Márquez was already established as a composer in Mexico when he celebrated his international breakthrough with the series of danzones in the early 1990s. The compositions are based on folk music from Cuba and the Veracruz region in Mexico; Especially Danzón No. 2 led Márquez to world fame after Gustavo Dudamel played him again and again with his youth orchestra on his tour in Europe and the USA. As a result, other works by the composer came into the public consciousness and on the concert stages, especially in Latin America.

Márquez's music is now performed by numerous soloists, chamber ensembles and orchestras worldwide; he has received commissions from the Universidad Metropolitana de México, the Festival Cervantino, the Festival del Caribe and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA). He has received numerous well-known prizes, including the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes in Mexico, the Mozart Medal of the Austrian Embassy and the California Institute of the Arts Distinguished Alumnus Award. In 2005 the Arturo Marquez International Music Festival was founded in his honor. The cantata " Sueños " was performed for the first time in Europe by the orchestra and choir of the University of Bremen on January 29, 2018 in the Bremer Glocke.

Márquez currently lives with his family in Mexico City and teaches at the National University of Mexico, the Superior School of Music and the CENIDIM (National Center of Research, Documentation and Information of Mexican Music).

Works (selection)

  • Leyenda De Miliano , for orchestra
  • Danzón No. 1, for orchestra
  • Danzón no.2, for orchestra
  • Espejos en la Arena , for violoncello and orchestra
  • Danzón no. 3, for flute, guitar and small orchestra
  • Danzón no. 4, for chamber orchestra
  • Zarabandeo , for clarinet and piano
  • Son a tamayo , for harp, percussion and tape (performed in 1996 at the World Harp Congress)
  • Danza de Mediodía, for wind quintet
  • En Clave , for piano
  • Homenaje a Gismonti , for string quartet
  • Paisajes bajo el signo de cosmos , for orchestra
  • Danzón No. 8, Homenaje to Maurice, for orchestra
  • Conga del Fuego Nuevo , for orchestra
  • Sueños cantata for mixed choir, dancer, actor, mezzo-soprano, baritone and symphony orchestra (2017), first version under the title " Sueños: todavía " (2005)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ José Carlos Esquer: Mar Que Es Arena, Danzones Y Espejos. An acercamiento a la obra del compositor Arturo Marquez . Instituto Sonorense de Cultura, Hermosillo / Sonora / México 2009, ISBN 978-6-07759808-4 , p. 34 f .
  2. ↑ José Carlos Esquer: Mar Que Es Arena, Danzones Y Espejos . Hermosillo / Sonora / México 2009, p. 39 f .
  3. ↑ José Carlos Esquer: Mar Que Es Arena, Danzones Y Espejos . Hermosillo / Sonora / México 2009, p. 43 f .
  4. ^ José Carlos Esquer: Mar Que Es Arena; Danzones Y Espejos . Hermosillo / Sonora / Mexico 2009, p. 47 ff .
  5. ^ José Carlos Esquer: Mar Que Es Arena; Danzones Y Espejos . Hermosillo / Sonora / Mexico 2009, p. 53 ff .
  6. ^ Aurelio Tello: La creación musical en México durante el siglo XX . In: Aurelio Tello (ed.): La Música en México. Panorama del siglo XX . Fondo de Cultura Económica; Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes, México, DF 2010, ISBN 978-6-07455332-1 , p. 537 f .
  7. ↑ Ricardo Miranda-Pérez: Art. Marquez (Navarro), (Jesús) Arturo . In: Stanley Sadie (Ed.): The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians . 2nd Edition. tape 15 . Macmillan [u. a.], London 2001, p. 882 f .
  8. ↑ Gerald Weßel: Dress rehearsal for the European premiere . ( weser-kurier.de [accessed on February 10, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Gerald Weßel: "As if we were in Mexico" . ( weser-kurier.de [accessed on February 10, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Marquez, Arturo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Márquez Navarro, Jesús Arturo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Álamos