Juarez Echenique
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Benjamin Juarez Echenique is a music conductor and scholar with over four decades of experience in the arts, and was born in Mexico City
on July 17, 1951. He studied in Mexico at the National School of Music, National University of Mexico, the California Institute of the Arts
, where he obtained his Master of Fine Arts in Music, as well as in Italy, France and England.
He was principal guest conductor and assistant conductor of the State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra from 1979 to 1981; associate conductor of the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra from 1983 to 1987; and music director of the Gran Festival de la Ciudad de Mexico in 1989-90. He has lectured and run workshops on music and the arts in Mexico and abroad, where in 1984, Juarez was honored as the first Latin American to conduct an orchestra in China.
He was Head of the Music Department at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
(UNAM), Musical Director of the Mexico City’s Grand Festival, and taught at the UNAM, the National Conservatory
and the Superior School of Music of Institute of Fine Arts. He also founded the early music group Angelicum of Puebla
, devoted to the rescue of the music of the seventeenth century from Puebla’s Cathedral Archives.
Juárez Echenique has also produced and presented hundreds of radio and television programs in Mexico. His recordings of works of Baroque Mexican masters such as Ignacio Jerusalem y Stella, Francisco Delgado, Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla
, Manuel Arenzana and Fabián Ximeno for the Urtext
label won him a Latin Grammy
nomination in 2001. The same year he received the "Mexico Unido en sus valores Culturales" award.
From September 2006 to August 2009 he General Director of Mexico’s National Arts Center Centro Nacional de las Artes CENART as the result of a civil service selection process. He was the senior member of Mexico's Civil Service in the cultural sector. He is currently affiliated to the research university Instituto Dr. Jose Ma. Luis Mora.
On August 4, 2010 Benjamin E. Juarez assumed the position of Dean of the Boston University College of Fine Arts
.
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
on July 17, 1951. He studied in Mexico at the National School of Music, National University of Mexico, the California Institute of the Arts
California Institute of the Arts
The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia, in Los Angeles County, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the United States created specifically for students of both the visual and the...
, where he obtained his Master of Fine Arts in Music, as well as in Italy, France and England.
He was principal guest conductor and assistant conductor of the State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra from 1979 to 1981; associate conductor of the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra from 1983 to 1987; and music director of the Gran Festival de la Ciudad de Mexico in 1989-90. He has lectured and run workshops on music and the arts in Mexico and abroad, where in 1984, Juarez was honored as the first Latin American to conduct an orchestra in China.
He was Head of the Music Department at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
National Autonomous University of Mexico
The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México is a university in Mexico. UNAM was founded on 22 September 1910 by Justo Sierra as a liberal alternative to the Roman Catholic-sponsored Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (National Autonomous...
(UNAM), Musical Director of the Mexico City’s Grand Festival, and taught at the UNAM, the National Conservatory
National Conservatory of Music (Mexico)
The National Conservatory of Music of Mexico is a music conservatory located in the Polanco section of Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico.-History:...
and the Superior School of Music of Institute of Fine Arts. He also founded the early music group Angelicum of Puebla
Puebla, Puebla
The city and municipality of Puebla is the capital of the state of Puebla, and one of the five most important colonial cities in Mexico. Being a planned city, it is located to the east of Mexico City and west of Mexico's main port, Veracruz, on the main route between the two.The city was founded...
, devoted to the rescue of the music of the seventeenth century from Puebla’s Cathedral Archives.
Juárez Echenique has also produced and presented hundreds of radio and television programs in Mexico. His recordings of works of Baroque Mexican masters such as Ignacio Jerusalem y Stella, Francisco Delgado, Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla
Juan Gutierrez de Padilla
Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla was a Spanish composer in what is modern Mexico.He was born in Málaga, Spain but moved to Puebla, Mexico, in 1620 to compose music in the New World. At the time New Spain was a viceroyalty of Spain that included modern day Mexico, Guatemala, the Philippines and other...
, Manuel Arenzana and Fabián Ximeno for the Urtext
Urtext
Urtext is a word of German origin; ur- means "original," and text is as in English.In the humanities and social sciences, the word is often used in a metaphorical fashion to refer to a primitive, seminal, or prototypical example of an artistic genre or the basis of an ideological movement...
label won him a Latin Grammy
Latin Grammy Awards
A Latin Grammy Award is an accolade by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry. Unlike the regular Grammy Award which primarily honors music produced in the United States, the Latin Grammy honors works produced anywhere around the...
nomination in 2001. The same year he received the "Mexico Unido en sus valores Culturales" award.
From September 2006 to August 2009 he General Director of Mexico’s National Arts Center Centro Nacional de las Artes CENART as the result of a civil service selection process. He was the senior member of Mexico's Civil Service in the cultural sector. He is currently affiliated to the research university Instituto Dr. Jose Ma. Luis Mora.
On August 4, 2010 Benjamin E. Juarez assumed the position of Dean of the Boston University College of Fine Arts
Boston University College of Fine Arts
The Boston University College of Fine Arts is unit of Boston University. The College consists of the School of Music, the School of Theatre, and the School of Visual Arts. Each of the individual schools offer degrees in the performing and visual arts at the undergraduate and graduate level...
.