Jannet Alvarado Delgado

Pianist, composer and musicologist Jannet Alvarado was born in 1963. She is a doctoral candidate in the Catholic University of Argentina, holds a master’s degree in music and a diploma in investigation from the University of Cuenca and a bachelor’s degree in musicology from the Catholic University of Ecuador. She also studied in Cuenca’s “José María Rodríguez” Conservatory. Currently she is the director of the Rodríguez conservatory; she also teaches classes in the University of Cuenca. Alvarado has composed De las concesiones, for orchestra; Ciclo de composiciones contemporáneas, on Ecuadorean texts for soprano, strings and piano; Letanía, for strings and percussion; Chacona, for symphonic band; the operas, Ipiak y Súa and El Jurupi encantado; Vanitas Vanitatum, for mixed choir; as well as works for piano and chamber ensembles. She has published books and articles and is frequently invited as a participant of national and international musicological encounters.