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Born in Mexico City in 1964, Gabriela Ortíz Torres is considered one of the best of the group of young Mexican composers that have worked towards building a personal musical language that could be based on both musical tradition and the avant-garde; that could combine high art, folk music or jazz in novel, especially personal ways; and that could be both entertaining and immediate as well as profound and sophisticated. Ortíz Torres? music achieves a balance between highly organized structure and improvisatory spontaneity. Her music has won numerous awards and been widely broadcast and recorded. Soprano Sarah Leonard studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and has a wide repertoire with a particular interest in 20th-century music. Mexican pianist Arturo Nieto-Dorantes, a Gold Mealist at the Paris Conservatory and student of György Sebök at Indiana University, has toured Mexico, Europe and the U.S. playing with major orchestras, and now teaches at Laval University in Québec. The Cuarteto Latinoamericano is the most widely recorded and most celebrated of all Latin American string quartets.