JAIRO DUARTE-LOPEZ

Jairo Duarte-López, a native of Bogotá, Colombia, is currently pursuing a PhD in Composition at the Eastman School of Music. He also holds a Bachelor's of Music in Film Scoring from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Jairo co-orchestrated the opera, West-The Future of the American Musical Theater by Broadway composer Charles Strouse as a commission by the Hanson Institute for American Music. He also co-composed the chamber work Car Crash Opera as a commission by filmmaker Skip Battaglia at RIT. Jairo has been awarded the 2004 Wayne Brewster Barlow Prize and the 2005 McCurdy Prize in composition. Most recently, he received the 2007 National Prize for Music Composition in Colombia awarded by the Ministry of Culture for a work commissioned by cellist David Gerstein through the Hanson Institute for American Music.