| About the composer |
Diego Vega is one of the most active and performed Colombian composers of his generation. His music has been performed in some of the most important concert halls in the United States, Europe and Latin America by ensembles such as the Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Eighth Blackbird, Ensemble X, Alea III, the Colombian National Symphony, the Bogotá Philharmonic, the Youth Orchestra of the Americas, Maîtrise de Notre-Dame de Paris, the Quintet of the Americas, the CCM Wind Symphony, and internationally acclaimed soloists like pianist Radostina Petkova, clarinetist Christopher Jepperson, and flutist Bradley Garner, among others. Diego has written commissioned works for the Colombian National Symphony, Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, the Cornell Symphony and the Cornell Chorus. Vega has also been awarded the Ensemble X composition competition in 2004, Alea III 20th anniversary prize in 2002, one of the top Ten Young Colombian Executives of the Year in 1996, and prestigious scholarships such as Fulbright and the Sage Fellowship at Cornell University.
“ driving, infectious music that brimmed with vitality… ”
—Andrew Druckenbrod, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Vega holds degrees from Universidad Javeriana (BM) in Bogota, Colombia, University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music (MM) and Cornell University (DMA). After being professor of composition and theory at the Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University, Diego has recently return to Colombia to join the Faculty at the Universidad Javeriana Department of Music as Associate Professor. Among his composition teachers are Guillermo Gaviria, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Joel Hoffman, Roberto Sierra and Steven Stucky. Diego Vega has written music for soloists, a variety of chamber groups, symphony orchestras, wind ensembles, choral ensembles, computer and electronic music. He has incorporated elements of Colombian traditional music into some of these works. You can listen to fragments of some of Diego's compositions by clicking here.
“ solid work in the mainstream of 20th century neoclassicism, [his work] explores the boundaries of tonality and offer challenges to even the most well-coordinated ensemble ”
—Joan Reinthaler, on Diego’s String Quartet, Washington Post, March 10, 2003
Major Performances
Composers Sergio Mesa and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, “ profound artistic value of his work, in which the conjunction of musical expression and compositional technique achieve an extremely convincing and attractive aesthetic result ”
recently referring to Diego’s music mention
Fellowships and Awards
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