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, a 2007
Aaron Copland Award, and a fellowship from Vitae, Associação
de Apoio à Cultura, one of the most prestigious artist awards
in Brazil. 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,
described by Lukas Foss as an "excellent" work that is "full
of vitality and intricate detail" was selected by Maestro David
Zinman to receive the 2007 Jacob Druckman Award from the Aspen Music
Festival. The same work won an honorable mention at the Lepo Sumera
Orchestral Competition in Estonia in 2003.
Jorge Grossmann has been resident fellow at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and at the Moscow and St. Petersburg conservatories, in Russia; in 2007 he was elected Norton Stevens Fellow at the MacDowell Colony. He has been awarded a fellowship from the Nevada Arts Council and, in 2007, he was commissioned by the Nevada Music Teachers Association to compose a new work for solo piano. 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) and the University of Arizona. He is currently Assistant Professor of Music Theory/Composition at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas 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,
Lukas Foss and John Harbison.
updated 9/8/07