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Cynthia Valenzuela
Mexican songwriter

Cynthia Valenzuela

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Mexican songwriter
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24 years
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Cynthia Valenzuela is a Mexican harpist of Celtic music and singer . She plays the Celtic harp. She is the first harpist playing the metallic Celtic harp and the tallest playable harp conceived and made by Juan Manuel González.

She gives concerts and edits disks, but she also uses the harp for meditation and therapy. ·

Biography

She started to play harp at the National Conservatory of Music of Mexico when she was a teenager and she song as soprano at the Conservatory Choir. She also composed and directed her first chamber music pieces which contributed to being accepted at The University of Texas at Austin at the Composition and Harp Program with full scholarship for playing at the audition the music of Debussy on piano as well as on harp. By age 24 she had won the New York BMI student composer Award in 1988, the SESAC Composition Award at the Society of Composers Inc. The First Prize - for three consecutive years - at the Grand National Irish Fair Harp Competition, Second Prize at the National Jazz Harp Festival and an MTV Award Short Film for writing the music of the best short film 1990 by Eric Darnell. Cynthia received the master's degree in Music Composition from Cal Arts. She was asked to record with EMI Records of New York The Album Vermillion Sea and the CD The Versatile Celtic Harp by WoldSong Records ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·

She has accompanied Alan Stivell during a concert in Mexico in 2001 to the Festival of the Tajín.

Discography

  • Canciones de Cuna para Arrullar el Alma, Urtext Digital Classics
  • Cantos mágicos, Urtext Digital Classics
  • Arpa Celta, Urtext Digital Classics
  • The versatil Celtic harp, WoldSong Records
  • Arpa selva, Urtext Digital Classics
  • Celestial sound, Urtext Digital Classics
  • Vermillion Sea, Gyroscope, collaboration with Gene Bowen ·  ·
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