CORAZÓN OTERO, is recognized worldwide for her diverse artistic activities: musical researcher, writer, classic guitar interpreter. Native of Mexico City, she has dedicated great part of her time to musical investigation. She did her guitar and harmony studies in Mexico and Italy. She has performed solo and in chamber music with violin, violonchelo, flute, and chamber orchestra.
In recognition of her art, composers of different countries have dedicated Corazón works for her instrument: Alexandre Tansman, Angelo Gilardino, Guido Santórsola, Harold Gramatges, John Duarte, Julio César Oliva, Leonardo Velásquez, and Xavier Quiñones.
She premiered their works in Mexico and Europe.
Frequently she has been invited as a Jury Member in international guitar contests such as: Paris, Gargnano, Alessandria, San Remo, Bath, Taxco, etc.
In 1982, she founded Manuel M. Ponce International Guitar Contest as well as the Yólotl Musical Editions. And in 1997 the Youthful Yólotl National Contest of Classical Guitar.
As autor, she has participated in narrative readings with the writers: Agustín Monsreal, Humberto Guzmán, Hugo Valdés, and with Mauricio Molina in the Latin American University.
Corazón Otero is an author of the books; In the Half-light of the Attic, Stubborn Song, Music to Duet, as well as the following composers biographies: Manuel M. Ponce, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Alexandre Tansman, Guido Santórsola, and Johann Sebastian Bach. Some of them have been published in Mexico, England, France, Japan, and in the United States.
She has been invited to give film-conferences on her books, in Guitar Festivals and Music Conservatories in Mexico, Italy, Spain, and France.
Corazón Otero has written numerous articles for diverse internacional guitar magazines.
She has been awarded in different occasions. We emphasize:
1998, National Prize in the VI Great Festival Palafoxiano in Puebla, with his book a Stubborn song.
1999, Eight Gold Columns award, in the area of Fine Arts, of the Autonomous University of Guadalajara, for her artistic trajectory.
2003, Chitarra d'Oro award, in Alessandria, Italy, for her musical research.
