Welcome!
¡Hola! and welcome to my new website! I'm Enrique Gonzalez-Medina, a Mexican composer. I'm originally from the city of Tijuana, Baja California, in Northwestern Mexico. Since 1989, my wife and I have made our residence in the city of Sierra Madre, in California.
This site presents a catalog of my concert music and opera, and as of this latest update, 86 sound recordings of performances, available in mp3 format. You may listen to them by just clicking the mp3 link that follows the title of the selection.
I welcome your comments, and invite you to post them on my guestbook
Musicians: if you're interested in the score and parts of a specific work, please contact me.
A little more info about myself and my music:
I've just very recently finished a new version, for clarinet and piano, of my Música para cocinar suite that was just premiered on May 8, 2008 by the clarinetist Piedad Navarro and the pianist Selah Perez-Villar in London.
My most recent new compositions are the song cycle Canto marino for soprano and double bass, a commission by the Mexican duo of soprano Lourdes Ambriz and the double bassist Luis Antonio Rojas, and my Concertino íntimo, for piano and a small orchestra of thirteen musicians, a commission by the Baja California Orchestra, both works scheduled to be premiered in 2008.
Between 2003 and 2006 I finished the five song cycles that together make up the Baja California Songbook, a song collection of twenty-five settings of poems by five Baja California poets.
Among my more recent works, for their South American Tour, in 2005 the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles commissioned me to do a choral arrangement of my song Soneto al menudo. My children's opera How Nanita Learned to Make Flan, a 2003 commission by Cincinnati Opera, has had over two hundred performances in the United States.
In 2002, the guitarist Felix Bullock premiered my guitar concerto Concierto de Medellín in Colombia. In 2001 I was commissioned to compose the quartet Concierto barroco by the ensemble Pacific Serenades of Los Angeles. This same organization selected this work for their new CD Border Crossings (released on January 2008).
In 2000, the Mexican duo of soprano Claudia Montiel and guitarist Carlos Bernal recorded my song cycle Los versos de la maestra for their CD La Cuerda del Tiempo on the Quindecim Recordings label of Mexico.
I studied composition in Mexico City attending the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and in the United States I graduated from The Mannes College of Music (B.M.) and CSLA (M.M.). Since 1997 I'm a faculty member of the piano and composition departments of the Pasadena Conservatory of Music.
¡Bienvenidos!
Latest site update: May 24, 2008. This new website was first published on the internet on January 27, 2008. Please be aware that I'm currently finishing the English language pages, adding photos of performers, and also more mp3 recordings to it. In the near future, I'll begin incorporating the Spanish language pages to the site.
Please take a moment to update the new site address to your bookmarks, and also please be aware that the new address does not require the "www". Should you still have my old address www.enriquegm.com, please replace it with the new one.