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Works for Cello

Invención No. 2 (1987), for cello solo.

Tres pequeñas piezas (1993), for cello and piano.

Cinco miniaturas (1994), for cello and violin.

Fix (1999), for cello solo.

Unknown Skills (2004), for cello and fixed media.

Sources:

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

• The Living Composers Project. (n.d.). Ignacio Baca Lobera. The Living Composers Project. http://composers21.com/compdocs/baca_loberai.htm

• UNAM Postgrado Música. Programa de Maestría y Doctorado en Música. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. (n.d.). Ph. D. Ignacio Baca Lobera. Compositor. Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro. UNAM Postgrado Música. https://www.posgrado.unam.mx/musica/div/docentes/personal_docente/baca.html

Ignacio Baca Lobera

Mexican composer and guitarist, born June 28, 1957.

Born in Mexico City, Mexico, Ignacio Baca Lobera is a composer of many trades. Initially a self-taught guitarist, Baca attended the Escuela Nacional de Música of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City, and later studied with Julio Estrada and Juan Antonio Rosado. He furthered his education at the University of California, in San Diego, where he received both a Master’s of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts in composition, studying under the direction of Jean-Charles François, Jõji Yuasa and Brian Ferneyhough (1985-91). 

Baca has competed in a variety of competitions and received the Irino Prize in Tokyo in 1996 as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship (2001). His compositions have been played internationally, and he has received commissions from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1994), the Cervantino Festival (1994) and the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (1995). In 1997, he became a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores del Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA) and was the composer-in-residence of the Querétaro Philharmonic between the years of 1994 and 1995. Since 1994, he has been a professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro teaching composition, counterpoint, and ear training. As a composer for orchestra, chamber and electroacoustics, Baca’s music incorporates different contemporary techniques, including microtonalism and stochastic processes.