Lucía Álvarez(I)
- Composer
- Music Department
- Actress
Lucía Álvarez Vázquez was born on November 28, 1948 in the city of
México. She studied piano and composition at the National School of
Music, from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Álvarez
has worked extensively on films, the stage and television, but she is
also the composer of more than 100 concert works, including duets and
quartets for strings, chamber music, and the symphonic poem
"Moctezuma", with lyrics by Homero Aridjis. In 1994 she traveled to
Siena, Italy, where she studied film composition with
Ennio Morricone. Although Lucía Álvarez
has worked with many Mexican filmmakers, her work is mostly associated
with the films of Arturo Ripstein and
Ignacio Ortiz. She has won the
Ariel (the top Mexican film award) six times, and received many other
distinctions. She teaches at the National Film of Music and at the film
school Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos from UNAM .
