Marisa Canales
Long Description
Marisa Canales began her flute studies in Mexico and then moved to Philadelphia to obtain her bachelor's degree at the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts (now University of the Arts) under the guidance of Adeline Tomasone. She graduated with Magna Cum Laude distinction. She later completed postgraduate studies in France with Jean-Michel Varache at the Versailles Conservatory, earning first prizes in flute and chamber music.
She founded and directs the record label Urtext Digital Classics, which has nearly 300 titles distributed worldwide. She was nominated for a Latin GRAMMY as best music producer in the classical album category. She alternates her entrepreneurial activity with performances as a soloist and in chamber music programs in Mexico and abroad.
She has performed in countries such as Spain, Germany, France and the United States, and has been a soloist with major orchestras, including the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico and the London Symphony Orchestra, with which she recorded Lalo Schifrin's Caribbean Concerto.
Committed to contemporary music, she has commissioned and premiered some fifty works, of which nearly thirty have been dedicated to her by composers such as Samuel Zyman, Arturo Márquez and Gabriela Ortiz. She currently divides her time between Boston and Mexico City.