Jimmy López Bellido Explained

Jimmy López Bellido (born 21 October 1978) is a classical music composer from Lima, Peru.[1] He has won several international awards and has been nominated to a Latin Grammy Awards. Pieces composed by him have been performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Peru, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony, and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. His works have been performed at Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House,[2] Gewandhaus Leipzig,[3] and during the 2010 Youth Olympic games in Singapore.[4] His music has been featured in numerous festivals, including Tanglewood Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival,[5] Grant Park Music Festival,[6] Darmstadt International Course for New Music, and Donaueschingen Music Festival.

Education

During his childhood and early youth, Jimmy López Bellido studied at Colegio Santa María Marianistas, a Catholic-Marianist school in Santiago de Surco, Lima Perú. In 1998, López began studying at the National Conservatory of Music in Lima, where he worked with the Peruvian composer Enrique Iturriaga. In 2000 he moved to Helsinki to study at the Sibelius Academy with Veli-Matti Puumala and Eero Hämeenniemi. After being awarded a Master of Music degree, he was admitted to University of California, Berkeley. He obtained his PhD in Composition in 2012 from UC, Berkeley[7] He has participated in masterclasses with Magnus Lindberg, Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Nyman, Jouni Kaipainen, Jonathan Harvey, Betsy Jolas and Marek Kopelent, among others.[8]

Career

In 2004, a ballet, "Los Magos del Silencio" ("The Magicians of Silence") was produced in Lima and López's "Concerto for Koto and Orchestra" was performed by the Dutch UMA Kamerorkest (Chamber orchestra). In 2005, a work for four recorder players and three percussion players, "Kraftmaschine", was commissioned by the German A*Devantgarde festival.In March 2007, López presented several works, "A Wedding Blast", "Varem", "Epiphany" and "América Salvaje" ("Wild America") at a concert held in Helsinki's Temppeliaukion kirkko. The compositions included use of traditional Peruvian instruments such as the pututo and the ocarina and inspired by Peruvian culture. "América Salvaje" was commissioned by the Ministry of Education on the occasion of the opening of the Biblioteca Nacional del Perú (National Library of Peru) in 2006.[9]

2013 saw the premier of four works by López: "Lord of the Air", cello concerto, performed by Jesús Castro-Balbi and the TCU Symphony conducted by Germán Gutiérrez; "Ccantu", for piano, performed by Priscila Navarro at her debut recital in Carnegie Hall;[10] "Perú Negro", dedicated to Miguel Harth-Bedoya and the Centennial Season of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra;[11] and "Warped Symmetry" by flutist Sami Junnonen during the Hanko Music Festival in Finland. His work "Synesthésie" was recorded by Pierre-André Valade and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in November 2012 for the radio program Alla Breve.

On August 14, 2015 an album dedicated entirely to his orchestral works was released [12] under the Harmonia Mundi record label.[13] The pieces included are “Perú Negro”, “Lord of the Air”, “Synesthésie” and “América Salvaje”, all of them performed by Conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra (KORK).

His opera Bel Canto premiered in Chicago on December 7, 2015 at the Ardis Krainik Theatre of the Civic Opera House, home to the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Jimmy López Bellido is published by Filarmonika and Birdsong.

In 2019 he premiered "Dreamers" an oratorio which he wrote in collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright Nilo Cruz. It was premiered by Soprano Ana María Martínez, Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra.[14] He was Composer-In-Residence at the Houston Symphony[15] between 2017 and 2020, premiering two large orchestral works, "Aurora: concerto for violin and orchestra" with Leticia Moreno as soloist, and "Symphony No. 2: Ad Astra" conducted by then Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada. Both works were recorded commercially and released by Pentatone (record label) in January of 2022. "Aurora" was nominated to a Latin Grammy in the Best Classical Contemporary Composition category.[16] In addition, he mentored six young composers by spearheading the Resilient Sounds[17] project, which highlighted the plight of local refugees through six original multi-disciplinary projects.

The Chicago Sun-Times has called him "one of the most interesting young composers anywhere today."[18] while Opera News has called him an "undeniably exciting composer".[19] The New Yorker has hailed his "virtuoso mastery of the modern orchestra"[20] and the Dallas Morning News his “brilliant command of orchestral timbres and textures”.[21]

Works

The date is the date of composition rather than publication or first performance.

Orchestral or ensemble

Solo instrument and orchestra or ensemble

Chamber works

Opera

Awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jimmy López Bellido: Curriculum vitae . Finnish Music Information Centre . August 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083232/http://composers.musicfinland.fi/musicfinland/fimic.nsf/WLCBN/L%C3%B3pez%2C%20Jimmy%21OpenDocument%26Click%3D . dead . 2016-03-04 . 2015-08-12 .
  2. Web site: Latin Fever . Sydney Symphony Orchestra . August 2015 . 2015-08-12 . 2016-06-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160614062829/http://www.sydneysymphony.com/production-pages/2013/concert-season/latin-fever.aspx . dead .
  3. Web site: Katia & Marielle Labeque . Concerti . October 2013 . 2015-08-12 .
  4. Web site: World Youth Orchestra of the Singapore Games / Review . PIanomania . August 2008 . 2015-08-12 .
  5. Web site: Aspen concert orchestra . Bud Werner Memorial Library . August 2008 . 2015-08-12 .
  6. Web site: Grant Park's Inca trek weathers chopper invasion . Chicago Tribune . July 2013 . 2015-08-12 .
  7. Web site: A nod from the Big Apple for a grad student composer . UC Berkeley Graduate Division . October 2008 . 2015-08-12 .
  8. Web site: Jimmy López . Kohobeat . 2007-12-08 .
  9. Web site: Fue inaugurada la nueva sede de la biblioteca nacional . National Library of Peru . March 2006 . 2015-08-12 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923192817/http://www.bnp.gob.pe/portalbnp/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=159&Itemid=1 . 2015-09-23 .
  10. Web site: FGCU Junior Priscila Navarro Debuts at Carnegie Hall . Florida Gulf Coast University . 2015-07-18 .
  11. Web site: The Classical Note . D Magazine . 2013-05-20 . 2015-07-18 .
  12. Web site: Peru Negro Synesthesie - Lord of the Air. Amazon.
  13. Web site: Jimmy Lopez: Peru Negro . Amazon . August 2015 . 2015-08-12 .
  14. Web site: 'Dreamers' oratorio puts the plight of young immigrants to vocal music . San Francisco Chronicle . 2019 . 2019-03-13 .
  15. Web site: Meet new Composer-In-Residence Jimmy López Bellido . Houston Symphony . 2019 . 2017-10-12 .
  16. Web site: 'Aurora' by Jimmy López Bellido with Leticia Moreno nominated for Latin Grammy . Polyarts . 2022 . 2022-09-21 .
  17. Web site: Resilient Sounds . Houston Symphony . 2019 . 2019-01-24 .
  18. Web site: Grant Park and Goodman Theatre present torrent of words and music amid the same of rain . Chicago Sun-Times . July 2010 . 2015-08-12 .
  19. Web site: Bel Canto . Opera News . 2015 . 2015-12-07 .
  20. Web site: Divas Under Fire . New Yorker . 2015 . 2015-12-27 .
  21. Web site: Fort Worth Symphony previews its Kennedy Center program with works by Anna Clyne, Jimmy López . Dallas Morning News . 2015 . 2018-04-08 .
  22. Web site: World Premiere of 'Dreamers' Oratorio at Cal Performances. 14 March 2019.
  23. Web site: The ALEA III International Composition Prize 2003 . Alea III . 2003 . 2007-12-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070702162615/http://www.aleaiii.com/2003finalists.html . 2007-07-02.
  24. Web site: Result of the 26th IRINO PRIZE for chamber Music, 2005 . The Irino Prize Foundation . 2015 . 2015-08-12 .
  25. Web site: The ASCAP Foundation Names Recipients of the 2008 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards . ASCAP . 2015 . 2015-08-12 .
  26. Web site: Kranichsteiner Musikpreis für Jimmy Lopez, Marco Momi und Simon Stehen-Andersen . klassik.com . 2015-08-12 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150323054815/http://www.blayney.nsw.gov.au/ArticleDocuments/329/3h%20-%20Hobbys%20Yards%20Heritage%20Items.pdf.aspx . 2015-03-23 .
  27. News: Prizes and Honors / Nicola de Lorenzo Prize in Music Composition . Financial Aid & Scholarships . UC Berkeley Financial Aid & Scholarships . 2015 . 2015-08-12 .
  28. Web site: Bel Canto Snags 2013 Prince Prize for Lyric and Composer Jimmy Lopez . Clef Notes Chicagoland Journal for the Arts . 2013 . 2015-07-18 .
  29. Web site: An Unexpected Honor . voiceleading . 2014 . 2015-07-18 .
  30. Web site: Jimmy López, ex alumno gana mención . Conservatorio Nacional de Música . 2014 . 2015-07-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150722044753/http://cnm321.azurewebsites.net/?p=3071 . 2015-07-22 .
  31. Web site: The Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University Announces the 2015 Commission Winners . BYU . 2015 . 2015-09-13 .
  32. News: Premios Luces 2015 . El Comercio . El Comercio Peru . 2015 . 2016-01-20 .
  33. Web site: Cal Performances and Jimmy López . Hewlett Foundation . 2017 . 2017-10-19 .

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