Jorge
Villavicencio Grossmann's music has been performed throughout the United States,
Latin
America and Europe. He has won awards such as
a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Aaron
Copland Award, a fellowship from Vitae, Associação de Apoio à Cultura (one
of the most prestigious artist awards in Brazil), and
grants from Meet the Composer, Saint Botolph Club Foundation, and American
Music Center. His work Siray was a finalist in the 2005 ALEA III
International Competition and was performed by the Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble
Wien® during its 2006-7 world tour. His orchestral work Pasiphaë
, has gained recognition as the winner of the 2008 New
England Philharmonic Call for Scores, 2007 Jacob Druckman Award from the Aspen
Music Festival, and 'high credits' at the Lepo Sumera Orchestral Competition
in Estonia. His most recent orchestral work, Valdrada,
was premiered by the National Symphony Orchestra
of Ukraine in December of 2008.
Jorge Grossmann has been in residence at the Copland House, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Moscow and St. Petersburg conservatories, in Russia, and, as Norton Stevens Fellow, at the MacDowell Colony. He has been awarded a fellowship from the Nevada Arts Council and a commission by the Nevada Music Teachers Association. He has participated in festivals and conferences in the United States and abroad, including Aspen Music Festival, Mei Festival (The Netherlands), New Music Miami, June in Buffalo, Wellesley Composers Conference, and Domaine Forget Summer Academy (Canada). He has appeared as guest composer at the National Conservatory in Lima, Peru, São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil, International Society of Contemporary Music Festival (Miami Chapter), Florida State University Festival of New Music, University of Arizona, New Music Symposium at Colorado College, and was the 2008 composer-in-residemce at the SLAM, Seattle Latin American Music Festival.
He is currently assistant professor of music theory and composition at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; director of NEXTET, UNLV's new music ensemble, and co-director of N.E.O.N., Nevada Encounters of New Music. He is also director of áltaVoz, a Latin American composers consortium.
Born
in Peru in 1973, Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann studied violin and composition
in his native Lima and subsequently in São Paulo, Brazil. After
earning a bachelor's degree in violin performance from Faculdade Santa
Marcelina (São Paulo, Brazil), he moved to Miami to pursue graduate
studies in composition at Florida International University. In 2004
he obtained the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in composition at Boston
University. He has studied composition with Paulo Maron, Fredrick Kaufman,
John Harbison, and Lukas Foss.
updated 3/27/09