Faculty: Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann
Assistant Professor. Composer and violinist. B.M. (performance), Faculdade Santa Marcelina (Sao Paulo, Brazil); M.M. Florida International University; D.M.A., Boston University. Composition studies with Lukas Foss, John Harbison, Fredrick Kaufman, Paulo Maron. Awards from American Academy of Arts and Letters (Charles Ives Scholarship), Associação Vitae de Apoio à Cultura, St. Botolph Foundation, Nevada Arts Council (Artist Fellowship). Winner, Jacob Druckman Award for Orchestral Composition from Aspen Music Festival; 2007 Aaron Copland Award. Composer of symphonic and chamber works, including three orchestral works, a piano concerto, two string quartets, vocal and electronic music. Fellow at New Music Miami, June in Buffalo, Wellesley Composers Conference and Aspen Music Festival. Resident artist at MacDowell Colony, Associate Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Two-week residency at the Moscow and St. Petersburg conservatories (Russia). Finalist in 2005 ALEA III International Composition Competition; Honorable Mention in the 2003 Lepo Sumera Orchestral Composition Competition (Estonia), 2007 Commission by Nevada Music Teachers Association. Guest composer at Contemporary Music Festival in Lima, Peru. Lectures and masterclasses at University of Arizona, Sao Paulo State University (Brazil), and National Conservatory in Lima, Peru. Compositions performed throughout the U.S., South America, and Europe. Director and founding member of AltaVoz, a Latin American composers consortium. Co-director, N.E.O.N., Nevada Encounters of New Music.