Ricardo Lorenz

Ricardo Lorenz (born May 24, 1961) is a Venezuelan composer and academic. In 1992 Lorenz left the Jacobs school to pursue doctoral studies in music composition at the University of Chicago where he was a pupil of John Eaton and Shulamit Ran. After completing his PhD, he was a composer-in-residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Billings Symphony Orchestra. His works have been performed by symphony orchestras internationally. Partial list of works Orchestral works *Sinfonietta Concertante (1987), for wind quintet and string orchestra; dedicated to Heitor Villa-Lobos *Mar Acá, voor dwarsfluit, chamber orchestra and idiophones (1989) *Piano concerto (1990) *Violin concerto (1990) *Confabulaciones del Alma, three symphonic études (1992) *Concerto for Orchestra (1993) *Entrada triunfal del Rey Magoberry (1995) *Concerto for recorder and orchestra (1995, written for recorder player Aldo Abreu) *Pataruco for Venezuelan maracas and orchestra (1999, written for percussionist Edward Harrison) *Konex-Konex, for folk ensemble and orchestra (2000) *En Tren Vá Changó (2001) *Fantasía, for piano and orchestra (2002) *Rumba Sinfónica, for Latin-American band and orchestra (2007) *Cancione