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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 Nacional de Música]] in [[Mexico City]], studying harmony with [[Rodolfo Halffter]], and other topics under [[Hernández Moncada]], [[León Mariscal]], and [[Sandor Roth]]. In 1969, she studied with [[Jean-Etienne Marie]] at Schola Cantorum of Paris, France. She also studied piano instruction from [[Alfred Brendel]] and [[Alicia de Larrocha]].<ref name="Latin American Classical Composers 2016, p. 634">''Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary'' – Third Edition, by Martha Furman. Schleifer, Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, p. 634</ref> She later worked as a concert pianist for the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional.<ref name=iewc>''International Encyclopedia of Women Composers'', by Aaron I. Cohen, Second edition, vol. 2, Books and Music, 1987, pp. 711–712</ref> She also taught at the [[University of Mexico]]<ref>{{cite book |title=The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers|last1=Sadie|first1=Julie Anne| last2=Rhian|first2=Samuel|year=1994
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.
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