Jimmy López

During his childhood and early youth, Jimmy López studied at Colegio Santa María Marianistas, a Catholic-Marianist school in Santiago de Surco, Lima Perú.

He obtained his PhD in Composition in 2012 from UC, Berkeley[7] He has participated in masterclasses with Magnus Lindberg, Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Nyman, Jouni Kaipainen, Jonathan Harvey, Betsy Jolas and Marek Kopelent, among others.

In March 2007, López presented several works, "A Wedding Blast", "Varem", "Epiphany" and "América Salvaje" ("Wild America") at a concert held in Helsinki's Temppeliaukion kirkko.

"América Salvaje" was commissioned by the Ministry of Education on the occasion of the opening of the Biblioteca Nacional del Perú (National Library of Peru) in 2006.

[9] 2013 saw the premier of four works by López: "Lord of the Air", cello concerto, performed by Jesús Castro-Balbi and the TCU Symphony conducted by Germán Gutiérrez; "Ccantu", for piano, performed by Priscila Navarro at her debut recital in Carnegie Hall;[10] "Perú Negro", dedicated to Miguel Harth-Bedoya and the Centennial Season of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra;[11] and "Warped Symmetry" by flutist Sami Junnonen during the Hanko Music Festival in Finland.

[13] The pieces included are "Perú Negro", "Lord of the Air", "Synesthésie" and "América Salvaje", all of them performed by Conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra (KORK).