Jorge Cordoba

Jorge Córdoba

Works for Cello

Evocación a Joyce (1986), for cello and piano.

Contra el tiempo (1992), for cello and piano.

Sources:

  • Chicago a capella. (2012, April 24). 2012-2013 Guest Music Directors announced. Jorge Córdoba Valencia. Music Director, Navidad en Mexico. Chicago a capella. https://www.chicagoacappella.org/about/news_item/get_to_know_our_2012-13

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

  • Vocal Essence. (2021, August 29). Jorge Córdoba. Musical Moments with Philip Brunelle. Vocal Essence. https://www.vocalessence.org/jorge-cordoba-musical-moments-with-philip-brunelle/

Jorge Cordoba

Mexican composer, born December 15, 1953.

Born in Mexico City, Mexico, Jorge Córdoba received most of his formal music education at the Conservatorio Nacional de México; he later traveled throughout Spain, Hungary, the USA, Brazil, and the Dominican Republic to continue his conducting and composition studies.

He has served as the composer-in-residence at Brandon University (Manitoba, Canada) and has worked as an artistic director for many beloved choirs throughout Mexico. Córdoba has also had the opportunity to conduct several well-known instrumental groups, including the Symphonic Orchestra of Oaxaca, the National University of Mexico’s Symphonic Orchestra and Percussion Orchestra, and the Chamber Orchestra of Mexico City.

In 2003, he earned First Place honors in the 4th annual National Choral Composition Contest, he won First Place again in 2005. Córdoba has also received a Bartók recognition and the Kodaly Medal from the Hungarian government. In addition to his musical endeavors, Córdoba coordinates and hosts the “Horizontes de Nuestra Música” radio program, which is broadcast in Mexico.