I adamantly believe that if one composes honestly, one's music will speak to anyone with an open mind.

Liza Seigido (b.1983) was born and raised in South Florida. Liza was, apart from the few music classes she took in school, a self-taught musician and began composing music in elementary school. Liza began taking formal piano lessons in high school under the instruction of Dr. Yasmin Alvarez who nurtured her natural talent for composition by supplementing work on piano technique with exercises in basic theory.

Liza's formal training in composition began with Dr. Susan Epstein-Garcia (August 2001- November 2004) and Professor Jorge Ibanez (January 2005- April 2005) at New World School of the Arts College in downtown Miami; she was New World's first composition graduate. Liza, a multiple recipient of Hispanic Scholarship Fund grants, currently holds a Master of Music degree from Florida International University where she studied composition under Prof. Fredrick Kaufman from August 2005 through May 2008. She also served as a teaching assistant for FIU's composition program from the fall of 2005 until the spring of 2007. She is currently studying composition under Dr. Lansing McLoskey at the University of Miami where she is working towards her Doctorate and has been awarded a full tuition scholarship and a teaching assistantship. Liza's main sources of inspiration are her family, her compositional mentors, her martial arts training, pre-classical music, and the music of Claude Debussy who she has thought of her entire life as her patron saint.

It is a great time to be an artist! Our pluralistic world supplies us composers with an inexhaustible pallet. Although this condition complicates the act of creating art it also nurtures honest composition.

Originality does not factor into my judgement of art for nothing can be truly original, therefore, uniqueness alone is not a valid goal for one's art. Works by artists who take pride in following no one should be approached with skepticism; an artist who thinks of himself/herself as one who can compose without references is either an extra terrestrial or extremely arrogant and ignorant of the history of his/her discipline and in the history of relating disciplines. I think the highest goal one could have as a composer is attaining the ability to inspire others.

The following compositions have competed and been selected for performance in the music festivals that are listed:

"Lamentos de un Presidiario" for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano- selected for performance in "Music at the MOCA" (Miami, FL) by members of the Cleveland Orchestra- March 25, 2010

"Lament of the Restless Spirits" for processed voice and video-

*presented in the Czech-American Summer Music Institute 2009's Tři Koncerty at the Antonin Dvořak Museum, Prague, Czech-Republic- July 2009

*presented in FEASt hosted by Florida International University- November 13-14, 2009

"Sirens" for Laptop and Female Voice-

*presented in Electronic Music Midwest Festival hoseted by Kansas City Kansas Community College- October 2007

*presented in FEASt hosted by Florida International University- February 1-2, 2008

*presented in CHASM hosted by Florida State University- March 1, 2008

*presented in SEAMUS 2008 hosted by the University of Utah- April 3-5, 2008

*presented in the Electro Acoustic Juke Joint Festival hosted by
Delta State University- November 13-15, 2008

"String Quartet No. 1"- presented in Florida Composers Collaborative Concert hosted by the University of Miami- April 24, 2007

"Six Atmospheres" for violin, viola and piano- presented in New World School of the Arts College Musician Showcase hosted by the Olympia Theater at Gusman Center for the Performing Arts- April 9, 2004

Visit my SOUND GALLERY to hear Lamentos de un Presidiario, Lament of the Restless Spirits, Sirens, String Quartet No. 1, and Six Atmospheres:
http://web.mac.com/lizaseigido/iWeb/Site/liza%20seigido%20sound%20gallery.html