Originario del Estado de Hidalgo, estudió en el Conservatorio Nacional de Música con el eminente clarinetista mexicano Anastasio flores.

En dos ocasiones fué contratado por la American Wind Simphony Orchestra de Pitssbuerg, Pa. para sus giras que realiza cada año por la Costa Este de los Estados Unidos.

Mas tarde continuó su formacion musical en Europa con el maestro Ulisse Delecluse, profesor del Conservatorio de Paris, Francia. Durante su estancia europea, participó en el concurso internacional de ejecución musical en la  ciudad de Ginebra, Suiza.

La presencia de Marino Calva ha sido fundamental en la vida cultural de México, no sólo en cuanto a repertorio orquestal si no también como solista y musico de cámara. Ha sido clarinete principal de orquestas como la Orquesta Sinfonica del Estado de México, la Sinfonica Nacional y la Orquesta Sinfonica de Minería. Desde 1980 ocupa el mismo cargo en la Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM, así mismo se ha presentado como solista con directores como Eduardo Mata, Jorge Sarmientos, Irwin Hoffman, Horst Neumann, Sergio Cardenas, Ramón Shade, Antonio Tornero, Jorge Velasco y Yecoslav Sutej.

En el 2000, fué invitado por el Comité Organizador de la "International Clarinet Association", con sede en la ciudad de Oklahoma, a participar con un programa de música mexicana. Y mas recientemente, con el West Coast Clarinet Congress en la Universidad de Fresno CA, y en Honolulu, Hi.

Actualmente es profesor asociado de Clarinete del Conservatorio Nacional de Música, y presidente de la Asociacion Mexicana de Clarinete y Saxofón.

Toco y me gano la vida desde adolescente como Músico, tocando y enseñando.
Licenciatura Honoris Causa de la SEP.  Not bad for a Blues Player!!!

For online composition sessions, contact me through Apprentus, link down below.

Jacques Zafra was born in Mexico City on December 8, 1986 and is a member of the National Art Creators System in Mexico. He holds a PhD from the University of California San Diego (UCSD). Previously he did the Meisterklasse in composition at the “Hochschule für Musik und Theater” in Leipzig, Germany, where he also did his Master's.

Before studying in Germany he studied in Mexico composition and music theory at the CIEM (Center for Research and Studies of Music).

In 2012 he was awarded with the Music Diploma in guitar performance from the Royal School of Music, London.

He is President of the Leipzig based Non-Profit organization Contemporary Insights and founder of the YouTube channel "Mexican Scores" where he publishes video-scores of contemporary Mexican composers.

His music has been performed in Mexico, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, the US, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Portugal and Germany in festivals such as Darmstadt, Gaudeamus, the Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, Tonlagen and the FIMNME (Mexico) and has been broadcast in Mexico, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland and Croatia.

In 2016 his piece for alto recorder won the second place in the "New Recorder Music 2016 Composition Competition, from the Flauto Dolce the Association in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2012 his piece "Xochitepec desde mi cuarto" was chosen to represent Mexico at the International Rostrum of Composers of UNESCO in Sweden.

He was awarded with the Deutschlandstipendium (2015-2016) and has been also the recipient of two of the most important Mexican scholarships for musicians: Estudios en el extranjero 2013-15 and Jóvenes Creadores 2016-2017 (FONCA).

In 2019 he was one of the selected composers by the Ulysses Network for the ULYSSES Journeys 2019.

Experienced guitar player, played several concerts as soloist at different music festivals in Mexico. Recently he made his debut at New York City, playing latin-american music composed for the classical guitar. 

Had attended master classes by Hopkinson Smith, Iván Rijos, Gonzalo Salazar. 

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