Juan Trigos
{{Short description|Mexican composer and conductor}}
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Juan Trigos (born 1965) is a Mexican-American composer and conductor. He is currently a Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the University of Kentucky College of Fine Arts.{{Cite web |title=Juan Trigos {{!}} College of Fine Arts |url=https://finearts.uky.edu/music/faculty-staff/juan-trigos |access-date=2024-07-09 |website=finearts.uky.edu}}
Biography
Trigos was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1965. He started his studies in music with his father Juan Trigos S., composer and dramaturgist. After he started to study formally at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música (Mexico City, 1977 – 1983) with main teachers Guillermo Noriega, harmony and analysis, José Suárez, counterpoint, Miguel Agustín López, piano. In 1983 he continued his studies at Instituto de Liturgia, Música y Arte Cardenal Miranda in Mexico City where he studied Gregorian Chant, Chorus and Orchestra Conducting, Composition and Piano. After completing these studies moved to Italy in 1986 to deepen his studies on Gregorian Chant, Music Composition, Ancient Polyphony Conducting, Basso Continuo and piano at the [https://www.musicasacra.va/it.html Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra di Roma] where he had the opportunity to work in particular with Domenico Bartolucci (conducting and Bass Continuo), Giovanni Bucci (composition) and Enzo Stanzani (piano). In 1987 he was admitted to the [https://www.consmilano.it/ Conservatorio G.Verdi di Milano] for two careers Composition and Orchestra direction where his main teacher were respectively Niccoló Castiglioni and Giampiero Taverna. During his stays in Milan he also attended [https://musica.fondazionemilano.eu/ Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano] Contemporary Music Department where he studied under the tutelage of Franco Donatoni. Franco Donatoni has been an important figure in the composer's life.
Honors and awards
- 2017: Howard Hanson Visiting Professor. Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY, USA){{cite web |title=Eastman School of Music Hosts Mexican Composer Juan Trigos |url=https://www.esm.rochester.edu/news/2017/03/eastman-school-of-music-hosts-mexican-composer-juan-trigos/ |website=Eastman School of Music |access-date=9 November 2024 |date=10 March 2017}}
- 2018: Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Artes{{cite web |title=Sistema Nacional de Creador de Artes |url=http://fonca.conaculta.gob.mx/ligas/beneficiarios/eca08.php |website=Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Artes |access-date=10 November 2024 |language=es |archive-date=July 22, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722225032/http://fonca.conaculta.gob.mx/ligas/beneficiarios/eca08.php |url-status=bot: unknown }}
- 2018: Global Music Awards Silver Medal - Outstanding Achievement for the recordings of the works Symphony N.4 Nezahualcoyotl Icuicahan and Sonata N.1 for violin and piano{{cite web |title=Global Music Awards |url=https://www.globalmusicawards.com/honorees/may-2018 |website=Global Music Awards |access-date=9 November 2024 |language=en}}
- 2020: Fromm Commission. Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University (USA){{cite web |title=Juan Trigos {{!}} Fromm Music Foundation |url=https://frommfoundation.fas.harvard.edu/people/juan-trigos |website=frommfoundation.fas.harvard.edu |access-date=9 November 2024 |language=en}}
- 2023: The Azrieli Commission for International Music (Canada). Commission of a new piece for mixed chorus and ensemble to be premiered by the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Chorus at the AMP Gala Concert on October 28, 2024, given two subsequent international premieres and professionally recorded for a future commercial release. Work "Simetrías Prehispánicas"{{cite web |title=Juan Trigos {{!}} Azrieli Foundation|url=https://azrielifoundation.org/media/the-azrieli-foundation-announces-2024-azrieli-music-prize-laureates|website=azrielifoundation.org |access-date=9 November 2024 |language=en}}
References
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Bibliography
- Music Publisher [http://shop.promusint.com PromoMusica International Ed.]
- Millan, Eduardo Soto, Diccionario de compositores Mexicanos de Música de Concierto, tomo II, Mexico, Sociedad de autores y Compositores de México/Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1998, pp. 301–302, {{ISBN|968-16-4900-1}}
- Consuelo Carredano, Juan Trigos. Chronology, works's catalog and documentary references, «Pauta, cuadernos de teoria y crítica musical», June–September 2003, nn. 87–88, pgg. 133–156.
External links
- {{Official website|https://promusint.com/juantrigos/wp/home/}}
- {{cite web |title=Biography at Canadian Music Centre |url=https://collections.cmccanada.org/final/Portal/Composer-Showcase.aspx?component=AAIL&record=1fc2c676-782b-47ef-a4c6-d238dbc7dd27 }}
- {{cite web |title=Member of Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte |url=http://fonca.conaculta.gob.mx/ligas/beneficiarios/eca08.php |access-date=April 28, 2017 |archive-date=July 22, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722225032/http://fonca.conaculta.gob.mx/ligas/beneficiarios/eca08.php |url-status=bot: unknown }}
- {{cite web |title=DeCachetitoRaspado |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oKiqYefh9M |via=YouTube |access-date=December 22, 2023 }}
- {{cite web |title=Mis Dos Cabezas piensan peor que una |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqJzNs3pfio |via=YouTube |access-date=December 22, 2023 }}
- {{cite web |title=Donatoni, Hot (as a Conductor) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH44_x4DJP0 |via=YouTube |access-date=December 22, 2023 }}
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