Photo: Cecilia Reynoso
WILFRIDO TERRAZAS
Wilfrido Terrazas (Camargo, 1974) is a Mexican flutist whose career spans 28 years of performance, commissioning, collaboration, improvisation, composition and pedagogy. His recent work has been focused on finding points of convergence between notated and improvised music, and in exploring innovative approaches to collaboration and collective creation. He is a founding member and Herald of the Mexico City-based improvisation collective Generación Espontánea since 2006. As an interpreter, Wilfrido has performed over 340 world premieres, and has been a member of Liminar ensemble since 2012. As a composer, his main interest is the exploration of dialogues between composition, improvisation and performance. As such, he has written over 40 works for diverse instrumental forces. Other current projects include Filera, Escudo (Torre), and the Wilfrido Terrazas Sea Quintet. Since 2014, Wilfrido has been co-curator of La Semana de Improvisación La Covacha, a week-long festival dedicated to improvised music in Ensenada.
Wilfrido has been a committed educator since his adolescence. In the summer of 2017, he was appointed Assistant Professor in Contemporary Music Performance (Flute) at the University of California, San Diego. Prior to his appointment at UCSD, he taught at the Conservatorio de las Rosas in Morelia and at the Escuela Superior de Música in Mexico City. He is also in demand as a coach and workshop leader throughout Mexico.
Wilfrido has given concerts and participated in projects in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, and in over 40 cities in Mexico. He has obtained support from the National Fund for the Culture and the Arts (FONCA) and several other Mexican institutions, has been an artist in residence at Omi International Arts Center (Ghent, NY), Atlantic Center for the Arts (New Smryna, FL) and Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture (Kefalonia, Greece); and participated in the recording of more than 30 albums, four of them as a soloist or leader: Open Cages (Umor, 2007), Bóreas (Shival/CONARTE 2010), Bug/ge/d (Mandorla, 2010) and Pirate Songs (Ápice, 2018). Among his long time collaborators are composers Ignacio Baca Lobera, Thanos Chrysakis, Edgar Guzmán, Nickos Harizanos, Iván Naranjo, Liliana Rodríguez, Mauricio Rodríguez, Carlos Sandoval; cellist Natalia Pérez Turner, vocalist Carmina Escobar, multimedia artist Yair López, guitarist José Manuel Alcántara and poets Nuria Manzur and Ronnie Yates. Recent collaborations include recording with Roscoe Mitchell (Discussions, Wide Hive, 2017) and playing with Andrew Drury, Vinny Golia, Stephanie Griffin, Ig Henneman, Katt Hernandez, Anne La Berge, Wade Matthews, Mary Oliver and Stephanie Richards.
Wilfrido Terrazas studied music initially in Baja California and California. He later graduated from the Conservatorio de las Rosas. Among his most influential teachers are Damian Bursill-Hall, Tom Corona, John Fonville, Roscoe Mitchell, Guillermo Portillo, Germán Romero and Ernesto Rosas. Wilfrido grew up in Ensenada, and, after been based in Mexico City for over 14 years, he has recently relocated to San Diego, California.
Wilfrido Terrazas (Camargo, 1974) is a Mexican flutist whose career spans 28 years of performance, commissioning, collaboration, improvisation, composition and pedagogy. His recent work has been focused on finding points of convergence between notated and improvised music, and in exploring innovative approaches to collaboration and collective creation. He is a founding member and Herald of the Mexico City-based improvisation collective Generación Espontánea since 2006. As an interpreter, Wilfrido has performed over 340 world premieres, and has been a member of Liminar ensemble since 2012. As a composer, his main interest is the exploration of dialogues between composition, improvisation and performance. As such, he has written over 40 works for diverse instrumental forces. Other current projects include Filera, Escudo (Torre), and the Wilfrido Terrazas Sea Quintet. Since 2014, Wilfrido has been co-curator of La Semana de Improvisación La Covacha, a week-long festival dedicated to improvised music in Ensenada.
Wilfrido has been a committed educator since his adolescence. In the summer of 2017, he was appointed Assistant Professor in Contemporary Music Performance (Flute) at the University of California, San Diego. Prior to his appointment at UCSD, he taught at the Conservatorio de las Rosas in Morelia and at the Escuela Superior de Música in Mexico City. He is also in demand as a coach and workshop leader throughout Mexico.
Wilfrido has given concerts and participated in projects in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, and in over 40 cities in Mexico. He has obtained support from the National Fund for the Culture and the Arts (FONCA) and several other Mexican institutions, has been an artist in residence at Omi International Arts Center (Ghent, NY), Atlantic Center for the Arts (New Smryna, FL) and Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture (Kefalonia, Greece); and participated in the recording of more than 30 albums, four of them as a soloist or leader: Open Cages (Umor, 2007), Bóreas (Shival/CONARTE 2010), Bug/ge/d (Mandorla, 2010) and Pirate Songs (Ápice, 2018). Among his long time collaborators are composers Ignacio Baca Lobera, Thanos Chrysakis, Edgar Guzmán, Nickos Harizanos, Iván Naranjo, Liliana Rodríguez, Mauricio Rodríguez, Carlos Sandoval; cellist Natalia Pérez Turner, vocalist Carmina Escobar, multimedia artist Yair López, guitarist José Manuel Alcántara and poets Nuria Manzur and Ronnie Yates. Recent collaborations include recording with Roscoe Mitchell (Discussions, Wide Hive, 2017) and playing with Andrew Drury, Vinny Golia, Stephanie Griffin, Ig Henneman, Katt Hernandez, Anne La Berge, Wade Matthews, Mary Oliver and Stephanie Richards.
Wilfrido Terrazas studied music initially in Baja California and California. He later graduated from the Conservatorio de las Rosas. Among his most influential teachers are Damian Bursill-Hall, Tom Corona, John Fonville, Roscoe Mitchell, Guillermo Portillo, Germán Romero and Ernesto Rosas. Wilfrido grew up in Ensenada, and, after been based in Mexico City for over 14 years, he has recently relocated to San Diego, California.
Photo: Luz y Fuerza: Cine Expandido