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The dynamic and vivid music of Mexican-American composer Victor Rangel seeks to represent the emotional essence of stories, processes, sentences, and sometimes just words. Rangel’s approach is to depict pure impressions of a subject after one abstracts its content. This is influenced by the study of formal logic, which assesses arguments by stripping away the content–thus getting rid of any ambiguity and vagueness naturally created by language–in order to fully and solely assess the form. Commissions for Rangel’s music have come from distinguished groups such as the Houston Symphony, HGOco (Houston Grand Opera), AURA Contemporary Ensemble, Apollo Chamber Players, among many others. Rangel holds a bachelor of music degree, with a minor in philosophy, from the University of Houston. He has studied composition with Rob Smith, David Ashley White, and Michael Remson.

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