José Luis Elizondo, Mexico (1972 - )
Mr. Elizondo's accomplishments are varied and
impressive. He studied electrical engineering and music (composition
under Edward Cohen and Peter Child) at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). At Harvard
University, he studied
analysis, orchestration and conducting with Robert Levin, James Yannatos and
Jameson Marvin. His works have been
performed by distinguished soloists Kimberley Sopata, Elaine Chew, Alan Pierson
and Robert Ward. His suite fro
orchestra, Estampas Mexicanas, was premiered by the MIT Symphony Orchestra in
Boston under the direction of maestro David Epstein and was also performed by
the San José Symphony Orchestra and the Santa Cruz Youth Symphony Orchestra in
California, the Nuevo León Symphony Orchestra and the Jalisco Philharmonic in
México, as well as the Brentwood Youth Symphony Orchestra in England. Mr. Elizondo's awards include the 1995 MIT
Gregory Tucker Memorial Prize for Music, YAMAHA National Organ Festival awards
in 1980, 1985, and 1987, and the 1992 MIT Burchard Scholarship. In addition, Mr. Elizondo has performed in
various piano, organ and harpsichord recitals in México and the United States. At age 23, he became Associate Professor of
Science and Mathematics at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores
de Monterrey,
México. He currently works developing
speech recognition technology for computer telephony at Applied Language
Technologies in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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