Tizoc Ceballos Composer b 1979 Los Angeles Ca Biography Tizoc is a notable American Composer of New Music At a very early age he began studying piano and in Middle School began taking trumpet lessons at the Los Angeles Music and Arts School There he also began taking Mariachi lessons and by age 16 was fully immersed into the Mariachi world Today Tizoc is privileged to have had the opportunity to play along side of some of the most talented Mariachi musicians in the world and enjoys sharing his passion for Mariachi music through teaching and performing While completing his undergraduate work at Chapman University through the support of professors and his wife Tizoc realized a passion for writing music Tizoc s new found excitement for composition and new music led him to participate in Chapman s New Music and Percussion Ensembles where he began learning percussion and expanding his exposure to 21st century music By his second year at Chapman Tizoc gained admission into the composition program and began studying with composers Sean Heim and Shaun Naidoo Compositionally Tizoc is influenced by many different kinds of music and aspires to use music as a medium to express some of our inner most emotions and states of mind His music has been performances by Chapman Universities Chamber Orchestra New Music Ensemble Percussion Ensemble as well as The California Ear Unit Education Dual Bachelors of Music degrees in Music Composition and Music Education Cum Laude Chapman Universities Conservatory of Music Currently in the Masters of Music in Music Composition program at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University Long Beach Awards 2007 recipient of the Smith Composition Award Film Music Emancipated Minors written for piano and ute composed for short film directed by Doug Meyer Firey Descarga written for latin jazz ensemble composed for source music in the film Fire Fly All I need is Five Minutes written for percussion and piano composed for short film for director Tyrone Huff Kurt s Brain theme written for chamber orchestra composed for a short film entered in the Coca Cola refreshing film contest Entry was one of the top ten finalists in the nation Works Desidero Innocentia 2003 Orchestra Alone Tenor and Piano The Demon Within 2004 Tape electronic The Demon Within is a full electronic piece composed using sound samples processed through Adobe Audition The piece centers on the idea of a person running from their demons This piece is the story of the realization that our demons are a part of us and inside us They can not be escaped Tu se Morta 2005 Solo Cello and Tape Composed for solo Cello and Tape this piece is centered on Orfeo s reaction to learning that his love had died The main theme was derived from theme found in the second recitative of Monteverdi s opera Orfeo 60 seconds 2005 Percussion Ensemble Song of Sorrow 2005 SATB choir Voices for Viola and Trumpet 2007 Viola Trumpet Piano Percussion and conductor This piece centers around feelings of insecurity and fear The conductor takes the role as the person with self doubt Silent Cries 2006 written for string ensemble Program notes This piece was provoked by Mahmoud Ahmadunejad s absurd denial of the more then six million Jewish people murdered during the second world war Upon hearing his ridiculous denials I felt compelled to learn more about genocides around the world This research opened my eyes to the horror of well over 100 million innocent people exterminated due to hate and ignorance in genocides that took place throughout the modern world in the last hundred years The people murdered by the Nazi s in Europe during the second world war is not about numbers nor imagination but sadly a fraction of the other genocides that took place worldwide in the 20th century such as those in China Japan USSR Cambodia Ethiopia Armenia Turkey Rwanda Iraq Aghanistan Uganda Bangladesh Luberia Sierra Leone Yugoslavia Vietnam Guatemala Chad Taiwan Haiti Spain Cuba Syria Iran Chile and Argentina to name a few Broked Promises 2007 Flute Clarinet V