About

Jimena Maldonado Álvarez (b. 1988) is a Mexican composer, researcher and educator. Having studied both Composition and Photography, she is interested in combining the two disciplines in order to achieve alternative forms of composing, researching, teaching, collaborating, and presenting her work. Her work has been performed and commissioned by the Ligeti Quartet (UK), Jeffrey Zeigler (USA), Decibel ensemble (UK), Cuarteto José White (MX), Catchpenny Ensemble (NL), Rohan de Saram (UK), Orkest de Ereprijs (NL), BlackBox Ensemble (USA), Bozzini Quartet (CAN), and HD Duo (AUS), in festivals such as the Manuel Enriquez International Festival of New Music (MX), Le Tout-petit festival musical (FR), Open Circuit Festival (UK), Aires Nacionales (MX), Dag in de Branding (NL), Fem Fest (NL), and MATA Festival (USA), among others. In 2020, she won the prestigious Hildegard Competition of the National Sawdust in New York City, for which she was commissioned a new piece which premiered in March 2021 in New York. Her debut album Intervened memory was released in 2022 by Birmingham Record Company. Jimena completed a BA in Composition and Music Theory at the Research and Music Studies Centre (CIEM) in Mexico City and holds an MA in Composition from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. She completed a PhD at the Birmingham Conservatoire, with the support of CONACYT-FINBA (MX). Jimena currently works as a freelance composer and is the coordinator of the Master's practice-based research course at the Prins Claus Conservatorium in Groningen.