Hilda
Paredes will be working with students at this year’s June in Buffalo Festival
as one of three senior composers and guest lecturers. Hilda has been firmly established as one of
the leading Mexican composers of her generation, she has made her home in
London since 1979 and her music is now performed widely around the world.
As an active participant in master
classes at Dartington Summer School, studied with Peter Maxwell Davies,
Harrison Birtwistle and Richard Rodney Bennett. After graduating at the
Guildhall School of Music, she obtained her Master of Arts at City University
in London and completed her PhD at Manchester University.
Her collaboration with
choreographers led her to receive the Music for Dance Award from the ArtsCouncil of Great Britain in 1988.
After taking part at the Garden
Venture Opera Project in Dartington, she completed her first chamber
opera The seventh seed, released by Mode Records.
She continues to be involved in
the musical life of her native country, having taught at the University in
Mexico City and several other music institutions and was also a radio producer
of new music.
She has been recipient of
important awards, such as the Arts Council of Great Britain fellowship for
composers; the Rockefeller, Fund for Culture Mexico/USA and the J.S. GuggenheimFellowship in the USA and is currently beneficiary of the Sistema Nacional deCreadores, (FONCA) in Mexico.
As a freelance lecturer, Hilda has
taught composition and lectured at Manchester University, the University of San
Diego California, University of Buffalo and other prestigious Universities in
the US, at Centre Acanthes in France and in 2007 was appointed the Darius
Milhuad Visiting Professor at Mills College in the US. In 2011, she has been
visiting professor at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya en Barcelona.
Her second chamber opera El
Palacio Imaginado, commissioned by Musik der Jahrhunderte, EnglishNational Opera and the Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, was premiered
with much acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic.
Recently completed
works include La tierra de la miel, a collaborative opera project
commissioned by Susan Narucki and premiered in 2013 at UCSD. More recently she
completed her third string quartet Bitácora capilar premiered
at Milton Court Theatre in London and a shorter version of this work Hacia
una bitácora capilar which was premiered in May at the Festival Tage
fur Neue Musik in Witten , both written and premiered at the celebrations for
the Arditti String Quartet fortieth anniversary.
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