Juan Carlos Ponce
He began his formal music training at the Conservatorio J. Guadalupe Velázquez, continuing at the UNAM Faculty of Music (then called National School of Music), studying guitar. He graduated and earned the Gabino Barreda medal for academic merit. Subsequently, he obtained his Master’s degree in musicology at the same school, with highest honors. His thesis was titled ‘Metamorphosis of Hebert Vázquez, an intermedial approach’. He currently holds a Fulbright scholarship to conduct his research at Cornell University.
He has performed with the Orquesta Universitaria de Guitarras, the octet Contemporata and the duet Cuicatlán in important venues such as the Palacio de Bellas Artes, the Sala Nezahualcóyotl and the Antiguo Palacio del Arzobispado. He has also performed Polynesian music with the group Kaina in different Tahitian dance events. As a researcher, he has presented his work in events such as the UNAM Graduate Students Colloquium, the Karl Bellinghausen Congress, and the Jesús C. Romero Chair. He was an intern at CENIDIM as a research assistant in the project ‘Experimentalism revisited: Life and work of Alicia Urreta’, directed by Dr. Iracema de Andrade.
He joined PoéticaSonora MX in 2018, first to fulfil his social service (from 2018 to 2019) and later as a volunteer collaborator, performing tasks related to the editorialization of audios for the repository, interviews, and as an assistant in curatorial work.
Texts published on this website:
- Embodied voice and vibration: Vacilaciones. Curated by Rocío Cerón
- Conversation with Fernando Vigueras, De la voz al trazo.
- Conversation with Luis Alberto Murillo Ruiz, a.k.a. Bishop, Memories of collective projects with Motín Poeta.
- “Modos de oír” exhibition (2018-19) Report on voices submitted to hearings