Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann's music has been performed throughout the
United States, Latin America and Europe. His works find
inspiration in a wide range of subjects, from medieval music to Latin American
modern art. Jorge Grossmann has been a recipient of the Aaron Copland Award,
Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters,
fellowships from Vitae, Associação de Apoio à Cultura (Brazil) and the Nevada
Arts Council, the Jacob Druckman Award from the Aspen Music Festival, New
England Philharmonic Call for Scores, ALEA III International Composition
Competition (Finalist) and grants from the American Music Center, St. Botolph
Club Foundation, and Meet the Composer.
He has been resident fellow at the Copland House, MacDowell Colony
(Norton Stevens Fellow) and Atlantic Center for the Arts. Organizations that
have commissioned his music include the Nevada Music Teachers Association, and
the Henderson Symphony Orchestra. He has been composer-n-residence at SLAM,
Seattle Latin American Music Festival, and has appeared as guest composer in the
Festival Internacional de Chihuahua (Mexico) Festival Internacional de Música
Clásica Contemporánea (Lima, Peru), his works being part of new music festivals
in The Hague (Netherelands), Asunción (Paraguay), Monterrey (Mexico) and
Archipel Music Festival in Geneva (Switzerland) along with festivals and
conferences in the U.S. He has been a fellow at the Composers Conference, June
in Buffalo, Aspen Music Festival, Domaine Forget among others. Jorge Grossmann
studied violin and composition in his native Lima and subsequently in São Paulo,
Brazil. In the U.S., he studied
composition with Fredrick Kaufman, John Harbison, and Lukas Foss. In 2004 he
obtained D.M.A. in composition at Boston University and joined the faculty at
the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, becoming director of NEXTET, UNLV New Music
ensemble and co-director of N.E.O.N., Nevada Encounters of New Music. He joins the faculty at
Ithaca College as assistant professor of composition in Fall
2010.