Ithaca College

Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann, Assistant Professor of Music Composition is the recipient of a 2010-11 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.  According to the foundation, “The Fellowships are awarded to men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Grossmann’s compositions have been performed throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe. Upcoming performances of his works include the Da Capo Chamber Players’ performance of Mecanismos at Merkin Hall, NYC in October among other performances in the U.S., Canada and at the Festival of Contemporary Music in Lima, Peru. In addition, Grossmann’s work Pensar Geométrico al Trasluz will be released in the forthcoming compact disc, áltaVoz: New Music from Latin America.