Alicia Urreta

Alicia Urreta (12 October 1930 – 20 December 1986) was a Mexican pianist, music educator, and composer.

In 1952, she entered the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Mexico City, studying harmony with Rodolfo Halffter, and other topics under Hernández Moncada, León Mariscal, and Sandor Roth.

She also studied piano instruction from Alfred Brendel and Alicia de Larrocha.

She premiered her Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional in 1982.

Urreta composed, among other works, a chamber opera, five ballets, pieces for solo instruments, a cantata, incidental music, a musique concrète composition for Noh theater and film scores.