Jorge Rodríguez

Composer for the UNAM School of Music. Since 2008 he has been studying koto with Composer Nishimura Yoshiko, and from 2012 studies of shamisen and Japanese folk music under the direction of Composer Isaka Toshiyuki. Winner of various composition awards, in Mexico and abroad. He was a fellow of the Ministry of Education of the Government of Japan, doing a research stay from 2012 to 2013 at the University of Tsukuba, specializing in Japanese folk music. He published the article "Ways of transmission in traditional Japanese music -The importance of oral transmission-" (2013), in the magazine of the College of Cultural and Language Studies, University of Tsukuba. Coordinator of Cultural Activities of the Japan Foundation in Mexico from 2014 to 2017. Director of the Japanese folk music ensemble Kokiraku, established in Mexico in 2014. Currently carrying out translation activities as well as cultural planning in the city of San Luis Potosí, from the Japanese company Nissin Manufactura de México.