She will be Carnegie Hall’s composer in residence for the 2025 season, and her music is being performed by ensembles in Berlin, London, Los Angeles and New York.
[1] Her 2024 album "Revolución diamantina featuring the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, and Maria Duenas" was nominated for four awards at the 2025 Grammys, receiving three, including best contemporary classical composition.
She returned to Mexico City due to the illness of her mother, and studied composition there with Mario Lavista at the National Conservatory of Music.
She continued her studies at the Guildhall School with Robert Saxton, and with Simon Emmerson at the University of London where she received a PhD in 1996.
Ortiz incorporates conventional notation techniques in her compositions, which have contemporary, rock, African and Afro-Cuban influences.