Gabriel Pareyon

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Gabriel Pareyon
Gabriel Pareyon, 2003.
Background information
Born	1974
Origin	Mexico
Genre(s)	Contemporary Music, Mexican composers, 21 Century Music
Occupation(s)	Composer & musicologist
Years active	1995 – present

Gabriel Pareyon (born October 23, 1974, Zapopan, Jalisco) is a Mexican composer and musicologist.

He studied at the Composers’ Workshop of the National Conservatoire of Music, Mexico City (1995-1998), with Mario Lavista, and he received bachelor and master degrees in composition at the Royal Conservatoire, The Hague (2000-2004), where he studied with Clarence Barlow. He is currently developing a doctoral research on cognition, language and music at the Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki, under the supervision of Eero Tarasti.

His works selected for Thailand International Saxophone Competition for Composers (Bangkok, 2006, I Prize), the 2nd International Jurgenson Competition for young composers (Moscow, 2003, II Prize) and the 3rd Andrzej Panufnik International Composition Competition (Kraków, 2001, III Prize). His output as composer includes works for soloist and ensembles, choir, symphony orchestra, opera and music theatre. Although he experiments with Mexican traditional instruments, metres and phonetics from Nahuatl and Hñähñu, his music also combines wider aspects of linguistics and human speech, mathematical models (series, patterns, algorithms, etc.), and models coming from bird song and nonverbal communication.

[edit] Writings

Aspects of Order in Language and in Music, Royal Conservatoire, The Hague, 2004.
A Fractal Conjecture of Language. A Proposal for the Study of Self-Similarities in Linguistics and in Music, Proceedings of the 9th IASS-AIS International Congress of Semiotics, Imatra, 2007.

[edit] Sources

McHARD, James L. (2006). The Future of Modern Music, Iconic Press.
ROVNER, Anton (2005). "Dresdener Tage des Zeitgenossisches Musik" in New Music Connoisseur, no. 13, fall/winter.
SOLOMOS, Makis (2004). "Clash and Proportion" in 3rd International Forum of Young Composers, Paris.