Mario Lavista

Mario Lavista ( born April 3, 1943 in Mexico City) is a Mexican composer.

Biography

Mario Lavista studied from 1963 to 1967 at the Conservatory of Mexico Héctor Quintanar and Rodolfo Halffter at, then at the Schola Cantorum in Paris with Iannis Xenakis and Henri Pousseur and finally at the Musikhochschule in Cologne with Karlheinz Stockhausen. Since 1969 he taught composition at the Conservatory of Mexico. In 1970 he founded with other musicians improvisation group Quanta. From 1970 to 1971 he worked in a studio for electronic music in Tokyo. In 1987 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship, which he used to compose the opera aura. In the same year he became a member of the Academy of Arts, 1998 Member of the Colegio Nacional de México. He teaches at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música.

He composed pieces for string orchestra and for string quartet, improvisations for tape, the piece Chronos for fifteen Movements, for orchestra and continuo works for chamber ensemble. With the painter Arnaldo Coen, he created a graphically - musical project. In 1995, the Missa Brevis ad Consolationis Dominam Nostram premiered. In addition, he also composed film and television music.

He also appeared as a journalist and author forth: at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ( UNAM) in 1975, he founded the Music Journal Talea, 1982, he founded the Music Journal Pauta. In 1988 he published the font Textos en torno a la música. He is a member of the Academia de Artes.

Bibliographic Sources

  • Aharonian, Coriún ( 2000). An Approach to Compositional Trends in Latin America, International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology ( ISAST ).
  • CORTEZ, Luis Jaime (1988). Mario Lavista, textos en torno a la música, CENIDIM, Mexico City; 171 pp.
  • DELGADO, Eugenio (1993). " El lenguaje de musical aura " Heterofonía, vol. XXVI, no 108, ene. - jun., Pp. 45-51. CENIDIM, Mexico City.
  • ORELLANA, Joaquín (1977). " Hacia un lenguaje propio de Latinoamérica en música actual, " Alero, Third period, no. 24 (Guatemala City, May- June 1977).
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