Eddie Mora (San José - 1965)
Costa Rican composer
His musical studies were conducted at the Castella Conservatory, the School of Music at the University of Costa Rica and the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.
As a composer he has received recognition via the Achilles J. Echeverría, National Prize in Musical Composition, an ACAM Award (Association of Composers and Musical Authors) and in 2007 the Ancora Award in Musical Composition.
He has participated in several contemporary music festivals, including the Moscow Autumn in Russia, the Festival of Havana, the Latin American Workshop on Composition I (UNEAC - Casa de las Americas / Cuba), he was a special guest at the XXXI New Music Forum - Manuel Enriquez in Mexico, the CDMC in Madrid, the Latin American Music Festival in Venezuela, I Puerto Rican Congress of Musical Creation and the V Festival of Contemporary Music in Morelia.
Part of his work has been published by the Editorial Periphery (Barcelona - Spain), Revista Casa de las Americas (Cuba) and the University of Costa Rica editorial.
Various albums and 1 DVD conform his catalogue up to the present. In this DVD, Amighetti, he led the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica. In 2009 he recorded with the Russian Radio and Television Orchestra one of his works for an album produced by the label Verso from Madrid, Spain. He was recently in charge of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra.
Currently he serves as Artistic Director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Municipal de Heredia and is a member of the University Contemporary Ensemble. Since 2002 he is director of the Musical Composition Seminar at the Escuela de Música and currently serves as Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Costa Rica. His work Sula was awarded the Achilles J. Echeverría, National Prize in Musical Composition, 2010 and he was also recently awarded the Ancora Award in Musical Composition as director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Municipal de Heredia.
This year he presented Cuarteto para Cuerdas, an album containing all three of his string quartets, played magnificently by Cuarteto Latinoamericano.