Question: Alida Vázquez, is a Mexican composer who lives and works in which country, and she received a scholarship to attend Diller-Quaile Music School in New York City and also studied with Mario Davidovsky, an Argentine-American composer?

Context articles: Eric Chasalow
New York New Music Ensemble
Laura Kaminsky
Ezequiel Viñao
Nabor Carrillo Flores
David Noon
Laura Clayton
Matthew Greenbaum
Mario Davidovsky
Alida Vázquez

Eric Chasalow (born 1955) is an American composer of acoustic and electronic music.
 He is Graduate Dean at Brandeis University, and Director of BEAMS, the Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio.
 He holds the D.M.A. from Columbia University where his principal teacher was Mario Davidovsky and where he studied flute with Harvey Sollberger.
 He holds awards from, among others, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, with particular recognition for his works that combine live soloist with electronic sounds.
 His music is published by G. Schirmer, McGinnis & Marx (New York) and Edition Bim (Bulle, Switzerland) and appears on CDs from New World Records, ICMC.
The New York New Music Ensemble (NYNME) is an American contemporary music Pierrot ensemble.
 Since 1976, the group has commissioned, performed and recorded works by both emerging and prominent living composers.
 Its performances have been featured at several major music festivals including the Ravinia Festival, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, June in Buffalo, the Pacific Rim Music Festival, and the Thailand International Composition Festival (TICF).
 NYNME has also been recognized and supported by many significant American foundations, including the Jerome Foundation, the Fromm Foundation at Harvard, the Mary Flagler Cary Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Koussevitzky Foundation, and the NEA and NYSCA.
 The group has held numerous residencies at universities, such as Rice University, Emory University, Brandeis University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Pittsburgh, and Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study.
 Over the years, NYNME has premiered over 140 works, the vast majority of which were written specifically for the group.
 Among the prominent composers with whom the group has enjoyed longstanding associations are Elliott Carter, Jacob Druckman, Charles Wuorinen, Mario Davidovsky, Harvey Sollberger, Joan Tower, George Perle, Rand Steiger, John Eaton, and David Felder.
 The group's activities have also included tours in Europe, Asia, and South America.
Laura Kaminsky (born September 28, 1956) is an American composer, producer of musical and multi-disciplinary cultural events, and educator.
 She was born in New York City, graduated from the High School of Music and Art, and studied with Joseph Wood at Oberlin College and Mario Davidovsky at City College of New York.
 She graduated from City College/CUNY with a Master of Arts degree in composition in 1980.
Ezequiel Viñao (born 1960 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-American composer.
 He emigrated to the United States in 1980 and studied at the Juilliard School.
 His compositions include "La Noche de las Noches" (1989) for string quartet and electronics, which won First Prize at UNESCO's Latin-American Rostrum of Composers in 1993; six "Études" (1993) for piano solo, which were awarded a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award in 1995; a second string quartet "The Loss and the Silence" (2004), commissioned by the Juilliard String Quartet; "The Wanderer" (2005) for a cappella voices, commissioned by Chanticleer and Chicago a cappella, and "Sirocco Dust" (2009), commissioned by the Library of Congress for the St. Lawrence String Quartet.
 He currently resides in New York City.
Nabor Carrillo Flores (1911 in Mexico City - 1967) is the third son of Mexican composer Julián Carrillo Trujillo.
 He did his first studies in Mexico City and he continued them in New York City.
 On his return to Mexico, he made his studies of preparatory and those of civil engineering at the National University (UNAM), where he graduated in 1939.
 He received the Guggenheim Scholarship and his PhD from Harvard University, where he had also received his MSc in 1941.
 He exerted teaching and the scientific research at UNAM.
 He represented Mexico in the atomic test of the atoll of Bikini in 1946.
 He was named technical advisor of the Mexican delegation in the Commission on Atomic Energy of the United Nations for the pacific use of atomic energy.
David Noon (born 1946) is a contemporary classical composer and educator.
 He has written over 200 works from opera to chamber music.
 Noon's composition teachers have included Karl Kohn, Darius Milhaud, Charles Jones, Yehudi Wyner, Mario Davidovsky, and Wlodzimierz Kotonski.
 He was a distinguished member of the faculty at the Manhattan School of Music for 30 years.
Laura Clayton (born December 8, 1943) is an American pianist and composer.
 She was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and studied at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and at Columbia University, New York, with Mario Davidovsky.
 She began studying composition with Darius Milhaud at the Aspen Music School and graduated with a Master of Music in Composition from the New England Conservatory in Boston.
 She lived for a while in Brazil and then continued her studies at the University of Michigan, graduating with a Doctorate of Musical Arts.
Matthew Jonathan Greenbaum (New York City, February 12, 1950) is an American composer.
 He studied privately with Stefan Wolpe, and with Mario Davidovsky at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
 He holds a Ph.D. in Composition from the City University of NY Graduate Center (1985), and has served as a professor of music composition at Temple University's Boyer College of Music and Dance since 1998.
 Since 1999 Greenbaum has worked with computer animation to create hybrid works of visual music, as well as chamber music with a video component.
 Greenbaum has also written on Debussy, Schoenberg and Varèse in relation to Wolpe's dialectical and "cubist" approach to musical structure.
 He is the curator of Amphibian, a new music and video series in the Hiart Gallery in New York.
Mario Davidovsky (born March 4, 1934) is an Argentine-American composer.
 Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US, where he lives today.
 He is best known for his series of compositions called "Synchronisms", which in live performance incorporate both acoustic instruments and electroacoustic sounds played from a tape.
Alida Vázquez (born 1931) is a Mexican composer who lives and works in the United States.
 Vázquez was born in Mexico City, and from 1941-47 attended the Conservatorio Nacional de Música.
 She studied piano with Esperanza Cruz de Vasconcelos and music theory with Julián Carrillo.
 She received a scholarship to attend Diller-Quaile Music School in New York City and also studied with Mario Davidovsky at City College.
 After completing her music studies, she studied journalism and worked as a music therapist.
 In 1976 she began teaching music at the Bank Street College of Education.