Jimmy López

Jimmy López in 2009

Jimmy López (born 21 October 1978) is a classical music composer from Lima, Peru[1] and is considered "one of the most interesting young composers anywhere today"[2] He has won several international awards and pieces composed by him have been performed by leading orchestras around the world such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Peru, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. His works have been performed in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House,[3] Gewandhaus Leipzig,[4] and during the 2010 Youth Olympic games in Singapore.[5] His music has been featured in numerous festivals, including Tanglewood Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival,[6] Grant Park Music Festival,[7] Darmstadt International Course for New Music, and Donaueschingen Music Festival.

Education

In 1998, López began studying at the National Conservatory of Music in Lima, where he worked with the Peruvian composer Enrique Iturriaga. In 2000 he moved to Helsinki to study at the Sibelius Academy with Veli-Matti Puumala and Eero Hämeenniemi. After being awarded a Master of Music degree, he was admitted to University of California, Berkeley from where he obtained his PhD in Composition in 2012.[8] He has participated in masterclasses with Magnus Lindberg, Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Nyman, Jouni Kaipainen, Jonathan Harvey, Betsy Jolas and Marek Kopelent, among others.[9]

Career

In 2004, a ballet, "Los Magos del Silencio" ("The Magicians of Silence") was produced in Lima and López's "Concerto for Koto and Orchestra" was performed by the Dutch UMA Kamerorkest (Chamber orchestra). In 2005, a work for four recorder players and three percussion players, "Kraftmaschine", was commissioned by the German A*Devantgarde festival. In March 2007, López presented several works, "A Wedding Blast", "Varem", "Epiphany" and "América Salvaje" ("Wild America") at a concert held in Helsinki's Temppeliaukion kirkko. The compositions included use of traditional Peruvian instruments such as the pututo and the ocarina and inspired by Peruvian culture. "América Salvaje" was commissioned by the Ministry of Education on the occasion of the opening of the Biblioteca Nacional del Perú (National Library of Peru) in 2006.[10]

2013 saw the premier of four works by Mr. López: "Lord of the Air", cello concerto, performed by Jesús Castro-Balbi and the TCU Symphony conducted by Germán Gutiérrez; "Ccantu", for piano, performed by Priscila Navarro at her debut recital in Carnegie Hall;[11] "Perú Negro", dedicated to Miguel Harth-Bedoya and the Centennial Season of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra;[12] and "Warped Symmetry" by flutist Sami Junnonen during the Hanko Music Festival in Finland. His work "Synesthésie" was recorded by Pierre-André Valade and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in November 2012 for the radio program Alla Breve.

On August 14, 2015 an album dedicated entirely to his orchestral works will be released under the Harmonia Mundi record label.[13] The pieces included are “Perú Negro”, “Lord of the Air”, “Synesthésie” and “América Salvaje”, all of them performed by Conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra (KORK).

His opera Bel Canto is scheduled to have its world premiere at the Lyric Opera of Chicago on December 7, 2015.[14] Jimmy López is published by Filarmonika

Works

The date is the date of composition rather than publication or first performance.

Orchestral or Ensemble

Solo Instrument and Orchestra or Ensemble

Chamber Works

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Jimmy López: Curriculum vitae". Finnish Music Information Centre. August 2015. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  2. ↑ "Grant Park and Goodman Theatre present torrent of words and music amid the same of rain". Chicago Sun-Times. July 2010. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  3. ↑ "Latin Fever". Sydney Symphony Orchestra. August 2015. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  4. ↑ "Katia & Marielle Labeque". Concerti. October 2013. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  5. ↑ "World Youth Orchestra of the Singapore Games / Review". PIanomania. August 2008. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  6. ↑ "Aspen concert orchestra". Bud Werner Memorial Library. August 2008. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  7. ↑ "Grant Park's Inca trek weathers chopper invasion". Chicago Tribune. July 2013. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  8. ↑ "A nod from the Big Apple for a grad student composer". UC Berkeley Graduate Division. October 2008. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  9. 1 2 "Jimmy López". Kohobeat. Retrieved 2007-12-08.
  10. ↑ "Fue inaugurada la nueva sede de la biblioteca nacional". National Library of Peru. March 2006. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  11. ↑ "FGCU Junior Priscila Navarro Debuts at Carnegie Hall". Florida Gulf Coast University. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
  12. ↑ "The Classical Note". D Magazine. 2013-05-20. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
  13. ↑ "Jimmy Lopez: Peru Negro". Amazon. August 2015. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  14. ↑ "Bel Canto". Lyric Opera of Chicago. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  15. ↑ "The ALEA III International Composition Prize 2003". Alea III. 2003. Archived from the original on 2007-07-02. Retrieved 2007-12-08.
  16. ↑ "Result of the 26th IRINO PRIZE for chamber Music, 2005". The Irino Prize Foundation. 2015. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  17. ↑ "The ASCAP Foundation Names Recipients of the 2008 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards". ASCAP. 2015. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  18. ↑ "Kranichsteiner Musikpreis für Jimmy Lopez, Marco Momi und Simon Stehen-Andersen". klassik.com. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  19. ↑ "Prizes and Honors / Nicola de Lorenzo Prize in Music Composition". UC Berkeley Financial Aid & Scholarships. 2015. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  20. ↑ "Bel Canto Snags 2013 Prince Prize for Lyric and Composer Jimmy Lopez". Clef Notes Chicagoland Journal for the Arts. 2013. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
  21. ↑ "An Unexpected Honor". voiceleading. 2014. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
  22. ↑ "Jimmy López, ex alumno gana mención". Conservatorio Nacional de Música. 2014. Retrieved 2015-07-18.

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