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composer, Armando Torres-Gomez, was born on June 11, 1973. Started his
musical studies at the age of 6 at the musical initiation program of the
Escuela Nacional de Musica (UNAM). Wrote his first composition at the
age of seven (duet for baroque flutes) and studied violin with Cruz Rojas.
Later on, at the same school, he starts studying composition. At the same,
time he enters med school, having to leave aside temporarily his formal
musical studies, however he continued studying composition in a private
and autodidactic manner; in 1995 graduates as medical doctor and starts
the specialty in orthopaedic surgery, graduating in 2001 as orthopaedic
surgeon, he also finished a Masters degree in Science; his practice is
mainly at the ABC Medical Center, Mexico City. During those years, and
up to date, his musical output has continued. Among his compositions there
are orchestral, vocal, chamber and many other works. Since 2006 he started
to develop a particular system of musical creation, based on mathematical
proportions and spectral analysis, factors that shape the melodic, rhythmic,
harmonic and contrapuntal aspects of his music. He has received commissions
to write music by Horacio Franco, Mauricio Náder, Sylvia Hinz (Germany),
David Troiano (USA), Arcano string quartet, and Génesis string
quartet, Margarita Santiago and Laura Valderrama among other performers.
In 2009 he was commissioned to write a piece for the 20th edition of the
"Klangwerkstatt" festival of music in Berlin, Germany (Premiered
on November 9, 2009). |


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