Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon will return to the University at Buffalo as a senior composer for the 2024 June in Buffalo Festival. Zohn-Muldoon held the prestigious visiting Slee Professorship for the UB Music Department in fall 2020 and is the current Chair of Composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY.
Zohn-Muldoon spent his early music career performing and composing in Guadalajara, Mexico before relocating to the United States to study music at the University of California, San Diego and the University of Pennsylvania. His work has received international accolades and awards, including the Mozart Medal from the Austrian Embassy in Mexico, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Tanglewood Music Center, and Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte. In 2011, Zohn-Muldoon's scenic cantata Comala (2009) was named a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Music. Inspired by the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo (1917-1986), Comala captures his compositional style—vivid colors swirling with complex rhythms and contrasting moods, often spurred through his readings and personal introspection.
Below is a recording of the Center for 21st Century Music's first "Pan-Americana" concert on October 17, 2023. We had the tremendous pleasure of hosting Zohn-Muldoon, whose piece, Páramo (1999), concluded the program. During the interview with guest conductor Christian Baldini (1:34:44), Zohn-Muldoon describes his intense connection to literature and how this manifests within the music (The performance of Páramo follows the interview, beginning at 1:56:05).
October 17, 2023
Zohn-Muldoon cites the performers realizing his works as crucial to his creative voice, leading to the establishment of Zohn Collective in 2017. His collaborators include Tony Arnold, Molly Barth, Stuart Gerber, Dieter Hennings, Hanna Hurwitz, Daniel Pesca, Paul Vaillancourt, Colin Stokes, and Tim Weiss.
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