Graffiti Nuyorican https://vimeo/80371232 El Extreme Luis Chaluisan Salsamagazine 2014 Recognition Awards WEPAwebTV Roughrican Productions WEPAwebTV - New Edge Theater https://facebook/EspirituSalsa reverbnation/luischaluisan — with L.f. Chaluisan Batlle Federico Chaluisan Mayaguez Rocker Roller Rican Luis Chaluisan William Ortiz Collaboration with Puerto Rican composer William Ortiz-Alvarado based in Toa Alta, PR via ReverbNation. Alvarado was raised and educated in the United States, but his Latino identity plays a vital role in his music. Particularly, his experience as a Nuyorican in the 1970s have informed the aesthetics of his music, which transforms the sounds of the streets into art music. Unique in that respect is the use of what Ortiz calls vocalized graffiti, verbal passages that are integrated in Ortiz instrumental narrative. His musical studies began at the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico where he studied composition with Héctor Campos Parsi. He receiced a masters degree in composition from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a Ph.D. in composition from S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo, where he studied with Lejaren Hiller and Morton Feldman. Among his numerous awards, grants and commissions is the 2001 Latin Grammy Nomination for the Baja California Orchestras CD Tango mata danzón mata tango, which includes his Guitar Concerto Tropicalización. Ortiz is professor of music and humanities and Director of the University Concert Band at the University of Puerto Rico at Bayamón. He also teaches at the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico and is Music Director of the Ateneo Puertorriqueño.
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