Pablo Ortiz
 pvortiz@ucdavis.edu 3 Old Firehouse 530.752.7509 Office Hours TBD Curriculum Vitae |
Pablo Ortiz is a professor of composition at UC Davis. He taught composition and was co-director of the Electronic Music Studio at the University of Pittsburgh from 1990 to 1994. Among those who have performed his compositions are the Buenos Aires Philarmonic, the Arditti String Quartet, the Ensemble Contrechamps of Geneva, Music Mobile, Continuum, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, and the Theatre of Voices. His music has been heard at international festivals in Salzburg (Aspekte), Geneva (Extasis), Strasbourg (Musica), Havana, Frankfurt, Zurich, Sao Paulo, and Mexico City. He was commissioned by the Fromm Foundation in 1992. In 1993, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1996, he received the Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1997 and 1998, Ortiz was commissioned two chamber operas, Parodia and Una voz en el viento, by the Centro Experimental Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. In 1999, he was commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation to write a piece, Raya en el mar, for the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. In 2000, he received a grant from Fideicomiso para la cultura Mexico-U.S. to write children's songs. In 2004, the Gerbode Foundation commissioned Oscuro for Chanticleer and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. In 2008, he received an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Recent premieres include Heat Wave, written for Joel Sachs and the New Juilliard Ensemble, Suomalainen tango for orchestra by the Orquestra Nacional de Catalunya, and Trois tangos en marge by the Kovacik, Dann, Karttunen trio at the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid. He currently is working on a ballet with choreographer Diana Theocharidis for the Teatro Municipal General San Martin in Buenos Aires. |