Instrumenta Oaxaca es una iniciativa que desarrolla distintos programas de educación musical de excelencia, para impulsar el perfeccionamiento, identificar y promover talentos, crear nuevos públicos y fomentar la cultura musical, sin dejar de lado los rubros de creación, investigación y preservación de la música. Nuestras actividades académicas y artísticas tienen como sede y punto de partida la ciudad de Oaxaca y convocan al medio musical del país y distintas partes del mundo.

Portafolio of some recordings made for my own original compositions. 

Please visit youtube.com/@tobias.alvarez for recent works and www.tobiasalvarez.com for more info.

In the words of musicologist, Yolanda Moreno Rivas, “ Javier Alvarez (Mexico City, 1956) is probably the most interesting Mexican musician born in the 1950’s. An alert musical intelligence, sustained by the command of a plurality of techniques and an eclectic perspective has yielded a vigorous and multifaceted oeuvre with a highly original evolution. “

Composer of a large body of work, which encompasses music for the concert hall, the cinema and electroacoustics, Javier Alvarez began composition studies with Mario Lavista at the National Conservatory of Music, obtaining a Masters Degree at the University of Wisconsin with John Downey. In 1980, he continued his studies at the Royal College of Music, obtaining a Doctorate at the City University in London, in England, where he lived until 2005. In addition to his prolific creative career, which has won him ample international recognition, Alvarez boasts a 25-year long academic calling, having taught composition at the Royal College of Music and at the University of Hertfordshire. During 1989 he headed Sonic Arts Network, the society for electroacoustic music in Britain and, in 1995, he held the Artistic Directorship of the Society for the Promotion of New Music (SPNM). In addition to a 3-year residency at the Music Academy in Malmö, in Sweden, Alvarez has been visiting professor at the Paris Conservatoire and at the City University in London, becoming involved in 2004, as a founding director of the Escuela Superior de Artes Musicales de Yucatán educational project. In 2000 he was awarded the Mozart Medal and subsequently distinguished by the Sistema Nacional de Creadores  (FONCA). Since 2005, Javier Alvarez is a Member of the Mexican Academy of Arts and, in 2007, he was appointed Dean of the Conservatorio de las Rosas, position held until 2011. He currently lives in Mérida, in the Yucatan peninsula, where he is active as an independent composer. 


In 2008 and 2010 composed the music of the videos "Disidencia" and "A draught of the blue", by the mexican visual artist Minerva Cuevas. Pablo Salazar has received premieres by International Concert Brass Soloists (Switzerland), Ensamble de las Rosas (México), Duet Amrein- Henneberger (Germany. Switzerland), Ensamble Maderaire (México), Trío de las américas (México). His music has been presented in México, Germany and France. Has been programmed in festivals like Foro Internacional de Música Nueva “Manuel Enríquez” (Mexico city.) Discantus “Nuevos escenarios para la música (Puebla México) and the Berlin biennale for Contemporary Art.

Artista y diseñadora sonora. Escorpio, zurda, compositora. 
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