Alonso-Minutti, Ana R.

Assistant Professor of Music History
BA, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla; PhD, University of California, Davis.

Ana R. Alonso-Minutti was born in Puebla, Mexico, where she graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in music from the Universidad de las Américas. Later she moved to the University of California Davis, where she completed her doctorate in musicology. In her dissertation, she explores the work of contemporary composer Mario Lavista, addressing issues of tradition, avant-garde, text-music relationships, and collaboration. She uses music analysis with oral history and aesthetic discourse to discuss Lavista’s music as a point of convergence where resonances arise, understanding “resonance” as the quality of evoking responses charged with meaning by a multiplicity of voices. Her research was supported by several grants, among them the UC Davis Dissertation Year Fellowship, and the UC MEXUS Dissertation Research Grant. Alonso-Minutti has been part of the editorial committee of Brújula, an interdisciplinary academic journal with a focus on Latin American literary studies, published at the University of California, Davis. She was the guest editor of the sixth volume titled “Art and Encounters” released in the spring 2008. She also has published in two major Mexican music journals: Heterofonía and Discanto. In addition, she has presented some of her latest research in several academic conferences in Mexico, Canada and the U.S.