Darlene Castro Ortiz Darlene Castro Chicago Darlene Castro Ortiz (b.1993) is a Mexican-American composer and classical guitarist based in Chicago. Her interest in music began at a young age with the violin, first in a youth mariachi band, then in a classical orchestra setting. Raised in a bilingual family, her creative interest mostly lies in translation and creating sonic representations on non-musical objects, often using electronics, noise, and extended techniques. Her music has been performed and commissioned by ensembles such as Spektral Quartet, the Runnin' Fl'UTES', Salty Cricket Composers Collective, PANTS (Wind Quintet), Nightingale Ensemble, and the Salt Lake City Public Library's SHH! A Very Quiet Music Series. Her research on historical music notation has been presented with the American Musicological Society (Rocky Mountain Chapter) and has led her to conduct research in a week-long seminar on historical music notation at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. She completed her Bachelors in Music Composition in 2017 at the University of Utah and has studied with Igor Iachimciuc, Morris Rosenzweig, Inés Thiebaut, Sam Pluta, and Augusta Read Thomas. Currently, she is working on her PhD in composition at the University of Chicago. Darlene Castro Ortiz’s tracks as wind in dry grass by Darlene Castro Ortiz published on 2025-10-22T19:51:37Z between them the sea by Darlene Castro Ortiz published on 2023-07-28T17:08:53Z Trabalenguas - I. Poquito a Poquito by Darlene Castro Ortiz published on 2022-07-20T03:54:11Z Chiaroscuro by Darlene Castro Ortiz published on 2021-11-14T17:00:41Z Desmoronamiento (rev. 2021) by Darlene Castro Ortiz published on 2021-11-14T17:02:26Z I. Dawn by Darlene Castro Ortiz published on 2019-07-13T11:00:31Z II. Last Night by Darlene Castro Ortiz published on 2019-07-13T11:00:29Z III. Poppies by Darlene Castro Ortiz published on 2019-07-13T11:00:27Z Blend by Darlene Castro Ortiz published on 2019-02-06T21:23:04Z
