Alejandro Escuer

 

 Alejandro Escuer (Mexico, 1963) www.alejandroescuer.com is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist who has developed his own artistic and visual foundations on music interpretation and music composition, which have had an impact on his concerts and recordings with acclaimed reviews by TIME Magazine, New Music Connoiseur, Classical Music Review, American Record Guide and personalities such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Robert Dick, among many others. He is at ease performing as a soloist with symphony orchestra or solo recitals with piano, guitar, electronics, percussion, multimedia or ensemble.

He has captivated audiences with his commitment to and delight in performing a unique selection of works, ranging from the master pieces of all times to Latin American works and his own compositions.Alejandro Escuer has been a driving force in for the consolidation of new music in Mexico. He has been the artistic director and producer of more than one hundred concerts with more than 50 premieres from México, Japan, The U.S., Canada, Portugal, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Corea, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Australia, Denmark, among many others. Alejandro Escuer has received numerous prizes and awards, including a Rockefeller Foundation Award (1995), The National Interpreters Competition (first prize) 1986, 1987; The National Scholarship Award for the Arts (Universidad Naciona Autónoma de Méxicol) 1989, 1991, 1995; Líderes de México Honorary Award 1998, and many recognitions and fellowships from Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (1992, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2007).

He is also an active scholar (full time tenure faculty at the Escuela Nacional de Música of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), and as such he has been giving master classes and concert-lectures across the American continent. Currently he is a visiting Fulbright professor at Indiana University and he has been invited by Columbia University, New York University, CalArts, and many other relevant institutions.

As a soloist he has been able to achieve a highly individual reputation, constantly seeking to broaden the interpretive, aesthetic  and acoustical possibilities of the flute. These ambitious goals have been achieved through his own explorations and discoveries of new expressive instrumental techniques, the use and development of new technology, a unique  use of resources such as circular breathing, his own double bass and sub-contra bass flutes and in general, an innovative incorporation of musical means offered by different culture and traditions such as Pre-hispanic and Latin American.Alejandro Escuer holds degrees from Conservatorio Nacional de Música (B.A.) and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (B.A.). He obtained his soloist degree from Sweelinck Conservatorium Amsterdam in 1991 (M.A./Uitvoerend Musicus), and earned a doctorate in 1995 from New York University (Ph.D. Doctor of Philosophy in Music Performance). As a soloist he has recorded three albums: Jade Nocturno, Aqua and Aire Desnudo (http://www.quindecim.com.mx/)