Gabriel Pareyon

Gabriel Pareyon ( born October 23, 1974 in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico) is a Mexican composer, music theorist and historian of music.

Biography

He received his first music lessons from 1989 to 1992 in the Music School of the Universidad de Guadalajara. In 1994 he moved to Mexico City and studied until 1999 at the State Conservatoire in the composition class of Mario Lavista. Between 1995 and 2001 he attended master classes with Franco Donatoni, Vinko Globokar, Toshio Hosokawa, Manfred Trojahn and Włodzimierz Kotonski. His composition studies, he graduated at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with Clarence Barlow.

In 1995, he conducted research in musicology department of the CENIDIM - INBA in Mexico City, where he published books and articles in recent years.

He received the " Andrezej Panufnik " - prize for young composers (Cracow, 2001), 2nd place in the Jurgenson Competition for young composers, sponsored by Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Moscow, 2003), and was in the saxophone world championship in the Category composers awarded (Bangkok, 2006).

His works have been performed at the composer meetings and festivals in Berlin, Dresden and Cologne. A chamber music concert was recorded at the Otto -Braun- room of the State Library in Berlin on 15 December 2003 with members of the Brandenburg Philharmonic.