Composition competition
The OperaMaya Foundation announces its annual International Composition Competition for original works in Maya Language, to be debuted during the ÓperaMaya International Music Festival in the Yucatán Peninsula with the OperaMaya Festival Orchestra and Vocal Young Artist Programs—complete rules and regulations available upon request to: info@operamaya.com Subject: Composition Competition Rules.
Composer spotlight
Luis M. Ruelas Romo
2017 Composition Competition Winner
Luis M. Ruelas Romo (b. 1992), young emerging composer, who's voice bridges the gap between contemporary language and the folkloric idiom. His works have been premiered in both the US and Mexico, instrumentation ranging from solo piano, cello and guitar suite, string quartet, various forms of chamber ensembles, chamber orchestra all the way to string orchestra. He recently was a scholarship recipient from the Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation.
Winner of the 2017 OperaMaya International Composition Competition, Luis was a finalist that same year of the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. In 2015 Luis was awarded Honorary Mention at the 63rd BMI Student Composer Awards for his piece "Imágenes de Guanajuato". In 2013, Luis was a finalist in the International Music Composition Contest carried out by Don Quixote Iconographic Museum for the renowned Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato, Mexico.
