Julián Fueyo (born 1996) is a composer and conductor from Tampico, Mexico. An Interlochen Arts Academy and CIM alumn (Keith Fitch), Fueyo is now a graduate student at the Yale School of Music where he studies composition.
Fueyo’s music fundamentally explores ancient aesthetics and their place in our rapid-changing, contemporary culture. Referencing ancient art and literature (prehispanic and Roman), his works investigate idealization, historicism, memory, and transcendence by juxtaposing current and ancient understandings. These subjects often take the form of long, vectorial phrases that puzzle together to create structures akin to processional architecture (mausoleums, temples, pyramids). With an emphasis on ‘line’, melody often lingers in the form of harmony, etching vertical sound-masses into relief. Although distant from the ‘minimalist’ tradition, repetition takes a special significance, both as a cyclical device and as a symbol reminiscent of epic literature, ritual, and prayer.
Fueyo is the recipient of the 68th BMI Student Composer Awards (2020), 2020 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, a Diploma honoris causa awarded by The American School of Tampico, 1st prize at The Robert Avalon International Competition for Composers, 1st prize at Cleveland Composers Guild Collegiate Composition Contest, 1st Prize at Abundant Silence Composition Contest, winner at North/South Consonance Call for Scores, 1st prize at Ohio Federation of Music Clubs (OFMC) Collegiate Composers Contest, 1st prize at Belvedere Chamber Music Festival Composition Contest, finalist at 2016 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award, winner at MATA Jr. Festival, 2nd prize at Webster University Young Composers Competition, ‘Anabel Combort Memorial Scholar’ at Interlochen Arts Academy. His compositions have received performances by Peter Otto (First Associate Concert Master of The Cleveland Orchestra), Shannon Lee (4th prize winner of the 2019 Queen Elizabeth Violin Competition), North-South Consonance New Music Ensemble, Luna Nova New Music Ensemble, and more.