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Hilda Paredes

Hilda Paredes (born 1957 in Tehuacán, Puebla) is a Mexican composer based in London since her early twenties. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and at City University London, took a PhD at Manchester University, and worked with Peter Maxwell Davies and Richard Rodney Bennett. Her music has been played by the Arditti Quartet, the London Sinfonietta and Ensemble Modern. She held a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001, and her opera Harriet received an Ivors Composer Award in 2019. She is married to the violinist Irvine Arditti.

Hilda Paredes (born 1957 in Tehuacán, Puebla) is a Mexican composer based in London since her early twenties. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and at City University London, took a PhD at Manchester University, and worked with Peter Maxwell Davies and Richard Rodney Bennett. Her music has been played by the Arditti Quartet, the London Sinfonietta and Ensemble Modern. She held a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001, and her opera Harriet received an Ivors Composer Award in 2019. She is married to the violinist Irvine Arditti.

Señales
Five first recordings of chamber works by Hilda Paredes, written between 1995 and 2013: Señales with Irvine Arditti and Ensemble Signal, solo pieces for piano and for bass clarinet, and two works played by ensemble recherche.
Listen How They Talk
Chamber music by Mexican composer Hilda Paredes, 1998-2001, drawing on Mayan language and culture: works for string quartet, piano quintet, 21 musicians and vocal quartet, with the Arditti Quartet and Ensemble Modern.
The Seventh Seed
Hilda Paredes's chamber opera The Seventh Seed, on the Persephone legend to a libretto by Karen Whiteson, recorded with the Arditti Quartet and Steven Schick, plus two realizations of Permutaciones for solo violin played by Irvine Arditti.
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