Rosa Guraieb Kuri is a Mexican

Mexican people

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 pianist, music educator and composer of Lebanese

Lebanese people

The Lebanese people are a nation and ethnic group of Levantine people originating in what is today the country of Lebanon, including those who had inhabited Mount Lebanon prior to the creation of the modern Lebanese state....

 ancestry. She was born in Matias Romero

Matías Romero

Matías Romero is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 1,459.54 km².It is part of the Juchitán District in the west of the Istmo de Tehuantepec region....

, Oaxaca

Oaxaca

Oaxaca , , officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca is one of the 31 states which, along with the Federal District, comprise the 32 federative entities of Mexico. It is divided into 571 municipalities; of which 418 are governed by the system of customs and traditions...

, Mexico

Mexico

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, and studied in Beirut

Beirut

Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...

 with Michel Cheskinoff at the National Conservatory. She continued her education in Mexico

Mexico

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 with Juan Pablo Moncayo and Salvador Ordones Ochoa at the Conservatory of Mexico, then at Yale University

Yale University

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 and in Bayreuth.

Works

Selected works include:

• Me vas a dejar
• Reflejos
• Otoño
• Sonata para violín y piano
• Lejos
• Pieza Ciclica
• Palomita veloz
• Puerto de arribo
• Para entonces
• La tarde

Her works have been recorded and issued on CD, including:

• Otoño Homage to Mexican composer Rosa Guraieb (2005)