Alexis Aranda

Alexis Aranda

Works for Cello

1720: El Stradivarius Rojo (2003), for solo cello. 

Concerto Da Vinci (2007), for solo cello. 

Concerto de fuego (2009), for cello and orchestra. 

Credo (2017), for cello and piano.

Sources:

  • Ars Music Workshop (n.d.). Alumni. Ars Music Workshop. http://arsmusicworkshop.com/alumni

  • Furman Schleifer, M., and Galván, G. (2016). Latin American Classical Composers, A Biographical Dictionary. London: Rowman & Littlefield.

  • Prieto, C. (2006). Adventures of a Cello: Revised Edition, with a New Epilogue. University of Texas Press.

Alexis Aranda

Mexican composer and pianist, born October 26, 1974.

Born in Mexico City, Mexico, Fernando Alexis Aranda Mora is one of the most performed composers in Mexico to this day. He began playing piano when he was six years old and later attended the Conservatorio Nacional de Música to study piano with Magdalena León Mariscal, Bernard Flvigny, Eva Maria Zuk, Mauricio Náder, and most notably, Nadia Stankovich. He studied composition in 1995 at the National Center for the Arts under the direction of Mario Lavista.

Aranda has also studied internationally, traveling to Italy to continue composition at the Padua Conservatory in Italy, where he was awarded the Cesare Pollini composition award at the Verdi Theater in 2003. Additionally, he is also the youngest recipient of the Medalla Mozart (to musical excellence) in Mexico; he also received two grants (in 1999 and 2005) respectively to continue his studies abroad. His music has been performed by more than 30 orchestras in venues around the world, some of which include the Philharmonic Orchestra of Buenos Aires, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México; with performances at Carnegie Hall (New York, USA); and el Teatro Verdi in Padua, Italy.