MARIA GRANILLO

Composer-in-Residence

The distinguished Mexican composer, Maria Granillo, has accepted the invitation to write works specifically for us over the next three years (Seasons 70 – 72). Though now well-established on the faculty of her alma mater, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Professor Granillo’s training took her far from her homeland. After graduate studies in England, at the Guildhall School of Music in London, and then at York University, she earned a doctorate from the University of British Columbia.

 

Regulars to Chamber Chorus concerts may recall Granillo’s song cycle Marinas from the 68th season. We might anticipate some of its infectious melodies and rhythmic intensity in her first commission for us, one of the choral odes from Sophocles’s Antigone, translated by Philip Barnes. It will be featured in our season finale next May. Visit her website to sample many of her works for different musical forces.