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Hilda Paredes
12+ albums
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Hilda Paredes (born Tehuacan, Puebla, 1957) is one of Mexico's leading contemporary composers, and has received many prestigious awards for her work. She currently resides in London, and is married to the noted English violinist, Irvine Arditti. Paredes was born in Tehuacan, Puebla, Mexico, and has been a prominent music teacher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Firmly established as one of the leading Mexican composers of her generation, her music is now performed widely around the world. As an active participant in master classes at Dartington Summer School, studied with Peter Maxwell Davies and Richard Rodney Bennett. After graduating at the Guildhall School of Music, she obtained her Master of Arts at City University in London and completed her PhD at Manchester University. Her collaboration with choreographers led her to receive the Music for Dance Award from the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1988. After taking part at the Garden Venture Opera Project in Dartington, she completed her first chamber opera "The Seventh Seed", released by Mode Records. She has continued to be involved in the musical life of her native country, teaching at the National University in Mexico City, as radio producer of new music, as well as collaborating with the Orchestra of Baja California arranging traditional Spanish and Mexican songs. She has been recipient of important awards, such as the Arts Council of Great Britain fellowship for composers; the Rockefeller,
top songs
albums
Pianthology
Paredes: Señales
Paredes: Cuerdas del destino
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Paredes, Hilda: Cotidales; Uy U T'an; Can Silim Tun; Ah Paxoo'ob
Paredes: Listen How They Talk: Chamber Music 1998-2001
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Paredes: The Seventh Seed
Listen How They Talk: Chamber Music 1998-2001
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Paredes: Altazor
Listen how they talk
Gifts and Greetings
Negro fuego cruzado
The Seventh Seed