Hello, today I`m going to talk about my favorite Latin American composer, Arturo Márquez. He is a composer and musician. He was
born in Álamos, Sonora (Mexico) in 1950. Marquez’s father was a mariachi
musician in Mexico and his paternal grandfather was a Mexican folk musician in
Chihuaha.
At the age of 16 he started composing and
then he studied piano and music theory in the Mexican Music Conservatory. Afterwards
he studied composition with Federico Ibarra, Joaquín Gutiérrez Heras and Héctor
Quintanar. Subsequently he got a scholarship to study a Master of Fine Arts in Composition
in The Institute of Arts in Valencia, California.
Arturo Márquez had won several prestigious
awards and honors. Some of them are The National Arts and Sciences award of
Mexico, The Gold Medal of Fine Arts of Mexico, Mozart Medal by the Austrian
embassy, among others.
I choose this composer because his music is
very beautiful. My favorites pieces are “Danzón
no. 2” and “Conga del Fuego Nuevo”. I hope you like it!
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Amazing, Arturo Marquez must be an incredible composer, i will listen his music!
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