Biography
Keyla Orozco (Santiago de Cuba) is established in The
Netherlands as an independent artist since 1996. She currently realizes all her
music activities through her own enterprise, in which creation and education
play the main roll.
Awards:
Her compositional work has been awarded among others with the Guggenheim and the Cintas Fellowships as well as a MacDowell Residency Fellowship (all three in USA), First and Second Prizes at International Composition Contest René Amengüal in Chile, and the National Cuban prize for Symphonic Composition UNEAC.
Commissions and performances:
During the last 15 years Keyla has received several commissions by the main Arts Funding organizations in The Netherlands; to write for outstanding Dutch ensembles and soloists such as: the Nederlands Kamerkoor, Nederlands Fluitorkest, Asko Ensemble, Nieuw Ensemble, Combustion Chamber, De Ereprijs, Ricciotti Ensemble, David Kweksilber Big Band, Susanna Borsch, Ernestine Stoop, Mikhail Zemtzov, Mondriaan Kwartet, and many others. Her works are regularly performed in festivals and events around the world, at venues like: Carnegie Hall and Merkin Concert Hall in New York, Concertgebouw, Carré Theater, Muziekgebouw aan het Ij, Bimhuis, Tropentheater and Parasdiso Theater in Amsterdam, Teatro Amadeo Roldán in Havana, among others.
Other activities:
Her curiosity for exploring other Latin-American folk rhythms and the idea of integrating them into her compositions, leaded her in 2006 to a field-research on the traditional Venezuelan/Colombian Music known as “Música Llanera’. The project was subsidized by the Nederlands Fonds Podiumkunsten (Dutch Performing Art Fund). As a result, her later compositions have been strongly influenced by this music, being the case of 'Estudio del Pajarillo', Habanera en Pajarillo voor de gestolen fiets', 'Met de schoenen' and 'Piezas de Bolsillo'.
After organizing diverse inter-disciplinary events in Cuba and Holland, she co-founded in 2004 the Stichting PerpetuumM, a foundation to promote Latin-American art and culture in The Netherlands. Festival ‘Q-ba Música’ (2004) and Series ‘Latijns-Amerikaanse componisten aan het ij’ (2006-07) were projects co-directed and produced by Keyla Orozco within this enterprise, in which she worked until 2008. See more...
Teaching:
Her teaching career started in 1993 as a professor of Counterpoint at the Instituto Superior de Artes in Havana. Since 1996 she has been working in the Netherlands both at institutions and privately, giving Composition, Piano and Music Theory lessons. Between 2002 and 2005 she worked as an assistant professor of Composition in the class of Theo Loevendie at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. She taught Piano at the British School in The Netherlands between 2009 and 2011. And since the last four years she is developing her own educational project for children: Keyla Orozco Junior Music Club (KOJMC). See more...
Music Education:
Keyla received professional music education since the age of 8. She started with Piano at the Esteban Salas Conservatory in Santiago de Cuba, under the solid tradition of the Russian School. In 1988 she obtained her diploma in piano pedagogy and performance at the Escuela Nacional de Artes (ENA) in Havana, with Yleana Bautista as a main teacher. Later, she studied composition with Harold Gramatges at the Instituto Superior de Artes (ISA) in Havana, obtaining her Bachelor degree in 1993. Between 1995-98 she followed advanced composition studies in The Netherlands with Theo Loevendie, at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague and Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
Curriculum Vitae - English Curriculum Vitae - Nederlands
Awards:
Her compositional work has been awarded among others with the Guggenheim and the Cintas Fellowships as well as a MacDowell Residency Fellowship (all three in USA), First and Second Prizes at International Composition Contest René Amengüal in Chile, and the National Cuban prize for Symphonic Composition UNEAC.
Commissions and performances:
During the last 15 years Keyla has received several commissions by the main Arts Funding organizations in The Netherlands; to write for outstanding Dutch ensembles and soloists such as: the Nederlands Kamerkoor, Nederlands Fluitorkest, Asko Ensemble, Nieuw Ensemble, Combustion Chamber, De Ereprijs, Ricciotti Ensemble, David Kweksilber Big Band, Susanna Borsch, Ernestine Stoop, Mikhail Zemtzov, Mondriaan Kwartet, and many others. Her works are regularly performed in festivals and events around the world, at venues like: Carnegie Hall and Merkin Concert Hall in New York, Concertgebouw, Carré Theater, Muziekgebouw aan het Ij, Bimhuis, Tropentheater and Parasdiso Theater in Amsterdam, Teatro Amadeo Roldán in Havana, among others.
Other activities:
Her curiosity for exploring other Latin-American folk rhythms and the idea of integrating them into her compositions, leaded her in 2006 to a field-research on the traditional Venezuelan/Colombian Music known as “Música Llanera’. The project was subsidized by the Nederlands Fonds Podiumkunsten (Dutch Performing Art Fund). As a result, her later compositions have been strongly influenced by this music, being the case of 'Estudio del Pajarillo', Habanera en Pajarillo voor de gestolen fiets', 'Met de schoenen' and 'Piezas de Bolsillo'.
After organizing diverse inter-disciplinary events in Cuba and Holland, she co-founded in 2004 the Stichting PerpetuumM, a foundation to promote Latin-American art and culture in The Netherlands. Festival ‘Q-ba Música’ (2004) and Series ‘Latijns-Amerikaanse componisten aan het ij’ (2006-07) were projects co-directed and produced by Keyla Orozco within this enterprise, in which she worked until 2008. See more...
Teaching:
Her teaching career started in 1993 as a professor of Counterpoint at the Instituto Superior de Artes in Havana. Since 1996 she has been working in the Netherlands both at institutions and privately, giving Composition, Piano and Music Theory lessons. Between 2002 and 2005 she worked as an assistant professor of Composition in the class of Theo Loevendie at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. She taught Piano at the British School in The Netherlands between 2009 and 2011. And since the last four years she is developing her own educational project for children: Keyla Orozco Junior Music Club (KOJMC). See more...
Music Education:
Keyla received professional music education since the age of 8. She started with Piano at the Esteban Salas Conservatory in Santiago de Cuba, under the solid tradition of the Russian School. In 1988 she obtained her diploma in piano pedagogy and performance at the Escuela Nacional de Artes (ENA) in Havana, with Yleana Bautista as a main teacher. Later, she studied composition with Harold Gramatges at the Instituto Superior de Artes (ISA) in Havana, obtaining her Bachelor degree in 1993. Between 1995-98 she followed advanced composition studies in The Netherlands with Theo Loevendie, at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague and Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
Curriculum Vitae - English Curriculum Vitae - Nederlands
