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Alba Potes was born in Colombia. Her compositions have been performed by the Montreal Chamber Orchestra, National Symphony of Colombia, Darmstadt 2000 Internationale Ferienkurse Neue Musik, the Institute for New Music in Freiburg, The New York New Music Ensemble, and by music festivals in Latin-America, South Korea, Germany, Canada and USA. Connected to her creative work based on Spanish literature, she has also taught Spanish in CUNY and Columbia University. She teaches music at The Mannes College of Music, College Preparatory Division.

Ms. Potes has received commissions from, among others the Ministry of Culture of Colombia, the Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts in Philadelphia, Colombia’s Luis Angel Arango Recital Hall/Banco de la República and consecutive ASCAP awards (1998-2007). Her orchestral compositions Cantares para Orquesta and Reflexiones were winners of the 2002 New Music Reading Sessions of The Women’s Philharmonic in San Francisco and the 1994 Riverside Symphony’s First International Composers Reading Project in New York. Ms. Potes is a winner of 2001-2002 Music of Changes Composer Competition in Los Angeles that included a concert dedicated to her music. Her music is published by the Ministry of Culture of Colombia and Hildegard Publishing Company.