La Curandera - Robert Xavier Rodriguez (Music)

Robert Xavier Rodriguez
Professor of Aesthetic Studies
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Website: http://www.schirmer.com/composers/rodriguez/bio.html

Robert Xavier Rodriguez is one of the most significant and often-performed American composers of his generation. His other full-length stage works include The Last Night of Don Juan, based on the Rostand play, and Frida, based on the life of Mexican painter, Frida Kahlo, which the New York Times named "The best Opera/Musical Theater of 1991."

Professional Accomplishments:

Mr. Rodríguez’ music has been performed by conductors such as Sir Neville Marriner, Antal Dorati, Eduardo Mata, Andrew Litton, James DePriest, Sir Raymond Leppard, Keith Lockhart and Leonard Slatkin. His work has received over 2000 professional orchestral and operatic performances in recent seasons by such organizations as the Vienna Schauspielhaus, Theater Nordhausen, Theater Recklinghausen, National Opera of Mexico, BAM Next Wave Festival, Boston Repertory Theater, American Music Theater Festival (now Prince Theater), Dallas Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Orlando Opera, Aspen Music Festival, Tanglewood Music Festival, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Mexico City Philharmonic, the Baltimore, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Knoxville, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Boston and Chicago Symphonies, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Louisville Orchestra, National Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Cleveland Orchestra. Rodriguez' chamber works have been performed on the Juilliard Focus Series, in London, Paris, Dijon, Monte Carlo, The Hague, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Berlin, Edinburgh and other musical centers. His music is recorded on CRI (Grammy nomination), Albany, First Edition and other labels and is published exclusively by G. Schirmer. 

Mr. Rodríguez has served as Composer-in-Residence with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the San Antonio Symphony and the Dallas Symphony. He is currently Professor and Conductor of the Musica Nova ensemble at The University of Texas at Dallas.

Areas of Interest: 
Musical composition, conducting.

Education: 
Private Study in Paris, France, 1976-1977
D.M.A., composition, University of Southern California, 1975
Berkshire Music Center (Tanglewood), 1972
Conservatoire Americaine, Fontainebleau, France, 1969-1975
M.M., Composition, University of Texas at Austin, 1969
B.M., Composition, University of Texas at Austin, 1967

Representative Works:
Monkey See, Monkey Do (1986) - opera
A Colorful Symphony (1987) based on The Phantom Toll Booth (Norton Juster) - orchestra
Frida, the Story of Frida Kahlo (1991) - opera
Sinfonia a la Mariachi (1997) - orchestra
Bachanale (1998) - orchestra
The Last Night of Don Juan (2000) - actors, puppets, dancers, soloists, chorus and orchestra
The Tempest (2001) - actors, puppets and orchestra

Works in Print:
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