Dr. Ricardo Miranda
Symposium Keynote
“Music Versus Intolerance: Some Thoughts On Musicology and Music Education in Our Contemporary Environments”
Third International Symposium on Latin American Music
University of Arizona School of Music
Tucson, Jan. 21-22, 2011
Ricardo Miranda (M.A., Ph.D.) has been recognized as one the leading musicologists in Mexico. He has written extensively on the subject of Mexican music, including contributions to The New Grove Dictionary, MGG as well as several articles published in journals and academic publications in different countries. Amongst his most important books he has written three volumes on Mexican composer José Rolón, a biography of Manuel M. Ponce as well as a collection of essays entitled Ecos, alientos y sonidos which was, after Alejo Carpentier’s La música en Cuba, the second book on music to be published at the prestigious Tierra Firme collection of Fondo de Cultura. Dr. Miranda has been recipient of numerous prizes including Honorary Mention at the Robert Stevenson Prize for Musicological Research, the 2008 Vincent Duckles Award from the Music Library Association, and for six consecutive times he has been awarded the distinction of National Academic by the Council of Sciences and Technology of the Mexican Government. In México, Dr. Miranda has played a prominent role in music education. In 1999 he was appointed professor at Universidad Veracruzana where he opened Mexico’s first Music Postgraduate Program. Since 1997 he has held the position of Director of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música (the National Conservatory of Music) in Mexico City.
Ricardo Miranda, Ph.D.,
Director, Conservaotrio Naciona de Mexico