SIGAL SEFCHOVICH, JORGE RODRIGO

Jorge Rodrigo Sigal Sefchovich www.rodrigosigal.com

​(Mexico City - 1971). Composer, cultural manager and full time professor since 2017 at ENES, UNAM, Morelia, where he co-founded the Music and Artistic Technology undergraduate program (www.enesmorelia.org). Interested in new technologies especially in the electroacoustic music field. Since 2006, Sigal has been the director of the Mexican Centre for Music and Sonic Arts (www.cmmas.org) where he coordinates numerous initiatives of creation, education, research and cultural management in relation to sound and music. In 2024 he received the Bellas Artes Medal in Music from INBAL. He studied at CIEM in Mexico and then earned a doctorate degree from the London City University and completed his postdoctoral studies at UNAM. He has a diploma in cultural management from the UAM-BID and has continued his studies and creative projects with the help from various scholarships and support from institutions like Fulbright, FONCA (SNCA member 2011-18), Pride C (UNAM) and the DeVos Foundation for cultural management, among others. He is a member of the National Researchers System Level 1 from SECIHTI and for 20 years he has taken part in the Luminico project (www.luminico.org), he is the director of the “Visiones Sonoras” festival (www.visionessonoras.org) and editor of “Sonic Ideas” journal (www.sonicideas.org).