Arturo Márquez
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Arturo Márquez
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Arturo Márquez was born in Alamos, Sonora, Mexico in 1950. He began his musical training in La Puente, California in 1966, later studying piano and music theory at the Conservatory of Music of Mexico and composition at the Taller de Composición of the Institute of Fine Arts of Mexico with such composers as Joaquín Gutiérrez Heras, Hector Quintanar, and Federico Ibarra. He also studied in Paris privately with Jacques Castérède, and at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick, Stephen Mosko, Mel Powell, and James Newton.
In February 2006, Arturo Márquez received the "Medalla de Oro de Bellas Artes" (Gold Medal of Fine Arts), the highest honor given to artists by Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes. That evening the concert “El Danzón según Márquez" (The Danzón According to Márquez) was presented at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. The concert included six danzones, all later recorded on a CD of the same name. Márquez has received commissions from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Organization of American States, the San Antonio Symphony, the Universidad Metropolitana de Mexico, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM), Festival Cervantino, Festival del Caribe, Festival de la Ciudad de Mexico, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has received grants from the Institute of Fine Arts of Mexico, the French Government, and the Fulbright Foundation. In 1994 he received the composition scholarship of Mexico’s Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes.
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