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{{Short description|Mexican pianist, music educator and composer}}
[[File:Alicia_Urreta.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Alicia Urreta]]
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==Biography==
Alicia Urreta was born in [[Veracruz, Veracruz]]. In 1952 she entered the [[Conservatorio Nacional de Música (Mexico)|Conservatorio
Urreta established the National Symphony Orchestra (1975), was the general Coordinator of the National Opera Company of INBA. music coordinator of the Casa del Lago, musical performances director of the [[National Autonomous University of Mexico]] and founder of the Camerata of Mexico.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sic.conaculta.gob.mx/ficha.php?table=artista&table_id=2010|title=Urreta Alicia Arroyo|accessdate=27 September 2010}}</ref> In 1984, she had begun organizing musical festivals to promote Mexican and Spanish contemporary music, collaborating with Spanish composer [[Cruz de Castro]]. She premiered her Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional in 1982.<ref>Pulido, Esperanza. "Mexican Women in Music". ''Latin American Music Review'' / ''Revista de Música Latinoamericana'', vol. 4, no. 1, 1983, pp. 120–131</ref> She died in Mexico City in 1987.
==Works==
Urreta composed, among other works, a chamber opera, five ballets, pieces for solo instruments, a cantata, incidental music, a musique concrète composition for [[Noh]] theater and film scores
===Stage===
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*''Luiz negra'' ballet
*''Mujer flor'' ballet
*''Un
*''Tantra'' ballet with
*''Cante, homenaje a Manuel de Falla'' for actors, singers, three dancers, slides, percussion and tape, 1976
*''Romance do Doña Balada''
===Orchestral===
*''Ralenti'' for tape, 1969
*''Arcana'', concerto for amplified piano and orchestra▼
===Chamber===
*''Homage'' for string quartet
▲*''Arcana'' amplified piano
*''Estudio sobre una guitarra'' for tape
*''Salmodia II'' for piano and tape, 1980
*''De Natura mortis o la Verdadera historia de Caperucita Roja'' for narrator, instruments, and tape, 1971
*''Selva de
*''Dameros II'' for tape, 1984
*''Dameros III'' for tape, 1985
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