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Rodrigo Martínez Torres
Mexico City,1992
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Rodrigo Martínez Torres is a composer interested in the abstraction of popular musics as a tool for new creations. He is also a multi instrumentalist who performs in different genres and styles. He was born in Mexico City in 1992. He studied music composition in Academia de Arte de Florencia and in Núcleo Integral de Composición (CDMX). He holds a Master in Electroacoustic Composition from Centro Superior Katarina Gurska (Madrid, Spain), and is currently pursuing an MA in Digital Musics at Dartmouth College (NH, USA), under the tutelage of Ash Fure, Bethany Younge, and César Álvarez.

He was a grant holder in the Mexican program Jóvenes Creadores by FONCA in 2018-2019. He was awarded a MacDowell fellowship (New Hampshire, USA) in October 2019.
Rodrigo was the grand prize winning composer of the 2020 Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble Composition Competition. He also won the 2017 Arturo Márquez composition competition with his piece “Mambo Urbano”, for chamber orchestra. With “Radio Ruido”, he won the 2017 Caja de Viento Call for Scores, by german accordionist Eva Zöllner. His music has been played by Dutch ensemble Modelo 62, Mexican ensembles CEPROMUSIC, Liminar, and Ensamble Tamayo, as well as by Italian pianist Gloria Campaner. Most recently, his concerto for accordion and wind ensemble, “Onda Tropical” was premiered at Mexico’s premier concert hall, sala Nezahualcóyotl, by the Dartmouth wind ensemble, and UNAM’s banda sinfónica.