Honored, composer Federico Ibarra Groth said to be awarded the Fine Arts Medal awarded the Conaculta and INBA and he was given the Palacio de Bellas Artes night on Tuesday February 10, for his contributions to the musical tradition of Mexico, from various angles: the interpretation, composition and teaching.
«I feel very honored to have been awarded the Medal that the institute gives artists. Doubly honored, delivered you to me this medal on a significant date of the Palace, its first 80 years of life and also share this honor with friends who accompany me, «he said after receiving the award.
After a short recital, where attendees could enjoy a taste of the talent of the composer, through the interpretation of the Sonata for solo piano VII, by pianist Guadalupe Parrondo, the musician gave an account of his relationship with the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA).
He recalled that his first contact was as public when a student attending music shows to have more contact with this discipline and the lack of resources to purchase tickets, asked the teacher Luis Herrera de la Fuente to let him enter the tests of the National Symphony Orchestra at that time headed.
His talent and musical vocation, which has spent more than five decades, has led him to relate and work with different areas of the INBA, as the Opera national dance or theater companies, as well as acting as a healer, counselor and advisor on several occasions and develop custom, works that have been tested and have enriched its catalog of composition.
With the delivery of this medal, the National Institute of Fine Arts, said its director, Maria Cristina Garcia Cepeda, celebrates a man of exceptional talent: an outstanding musician, pianist, dean and professor committed contemporary composition.
«Owner of a refreshing, distinctive and strong sensitivity has formed a vast catalog of over half a century characterized by scanning forms and compositional techniques.»
The creative work of Ibarra Groth, said the head of the INBA, takes the legacy of a generation of composers of nationalism and modernity leads to the music of the twentieth century, in a work with a strong dramatic vein that has made vibrate heart of several generations.
Therefore, he said, «I am proud to deliver the Fine Arts Medal in recognition of your unfailing rich and expressive creativity and your innovation in the use of musical language that has made you a pioneer of avant-garde composition in our country. A recognition to your example of technical soundness, firm aesthetic positions and a mature style and lavish musical sound colors «.
Federico Ibarra, for over five decades, has formed a work that has become one of the most important and significant composers of contemporary Mexican music, with a repertoire ranging from sonatas to symphonies, cantatas through, suites and operas.
With an intense production both in quantity and quality, including Alice, Leoncio and Lena and Antoinette operas, a fallen angel, plus four symphonies, concertos and sonatas for piano, violin and cello, the architect of sounds professor emeritus of the UNAM.
He has also been awarded the Mozart Medal, the National Science and Arts 2001 National University Award and His works have been performed in Mexico and other countries such as Australia, Poland, Hungary, USA, Brazil, Cuba, France, China and South Africa.
