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Awards and honors:

2008, Fellowship of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation of New York, artist in residence at the CIvitella Ranieri Center, in Umbria, Italy.

2007-2011, Commande d'Etat, commission from the French Ministry of Culture for a new work for voice and ensemble. The piece will be wrote for the Soprano François Kubler and the Ensemble Accroche Note of Strasbourg.

2007, Composer in residence (September, December 2007 and January 2008), Centre National de Création Musicale (GRAME) of Lyon, France. Project developped: "Sinfonia Mixta", for 15 instruments and electro-acoustic support.

05.2006, VI Tribuna Mexicana de la Música, electro-acoustic music with instruments section. Work selected to rappresent Mexico during the Tribune International des compositeurs UNESCO in Paris: Tiento, for cello and electronics.

2006, First Prize, 6th. International Composition Competition, GRAME (Centre National de Création Musicale), Lyon, France, category open to all composers in the world without limit of age. Work commissioned by the GRAME, the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain and the Biennale Musiques en Scène of Lyon: "Sinfonia Mixta", for ensemble and electro-acoustic support. Jury: Henry Forés, Pierre-Alain Jaffrenou, Daniel Kawka, Didier Muhleisen, Francois Paris, Beatrice Rameau and Lorraine Vaillancourt.

12.2004. First Prize, International Composition Competition Queen Elisabeth of Bruxelles. Jury: Luis de Pablo, K. Saariaho, Michael Jarrell, Tristan Murail, Luca Francesconi, Ivan Fedele, Arie van Lysebeth (president), Stefan Niculescu, Frederik van Rossum. Winning work: Obscuro Etiantum Lumine, for violin and 3 orchestral groups.

10.2001, First Prize, X International Composition Competition “Alfredo Casella” of Siena, Italy, Jury: Azio Corghi, Ivan Vador, Michele Dall’Ongaro. Winning work: Como el Viento, for orchestra.

2000. First Prize, International Composition Competition Queen Maria Jose of Geneva, 2000. Winning work: Luz, for accordeon and string quartet. Jury: Marius Constant, Pascal Contet, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Jean Balissat, Philippe Dinkel, Eric Gaudibert.

1999. First Prize: International Composition Competition Ad Referendum II of the SMCQ, Montréal. Winning work: Figuralmusik II, for ten players.

1997. First Prize: International Composition Competition Città di Barletta, Italy. Winning work: Ximohua, for voice and wind quintet.

1999, Prix des Musiciens, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Forum of Montréal.

1999, the Mozart Medal from the governments of Mexico and Austria.

2003, sponsorship granted for the recording of the CD Exabrupto. CONCAULTA - FONCA (Mexican Fund for Culture) and SRE (Mexican Ministry of Foreign Trade).

2003-2006. CONACULTA (National Council for the Arts and Culture of Mexico) Honorary member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, Mexico.

For two times (2000 and 2003) he had received the Second Prize at the International Composition Competition Mozart of Salzburg.

05.2006, VI Tribuna Mexicana de la Música, electro-acoustic music with instruments section. Work selected to rappresent Mexico during the Tribune International des compositeurs UNESCO in Paris: Tiento, for cello and electronics.


04.2004, composer selected to participate during the III Forum International des Jeunes Compositeurs of the Ensemble Aleph. Prize: different creative residences at the Moulin d'Andé, the International Gaudeamus Music Week of Amsterdam and in Paris, a publication of a CD and different concerts in France, Germany and Holland. Winning work: De Ignoto Cantu, for bass clarinet, trumpet, percussion, violin, cello and electro-acoustic support.

02.2004. composer selected to participate during the 1ères. Rencontres entre Compositeurs et Interprètes de Paris, organized by Syntono, Cité Culture and the Ensemble La Pluma de Hu. Cité Internationale Universitaire of Paris.

07.2003, honorofic mention, International Composition Competition "Settimane Musicali di Stresa" Winning work: Currentes II, for orchestra.

1999, honorific mention for his work "Uris", for 16 voices, International Composition Competition Concorso Internazionale di Composizione “Guido d’Arezzo.

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