Dinorah Márquez Abadiano

Dinorah Márquez Abadiano was born in Mexico City, Dinorah emigrated to the U.S. at the age of 10, when she began her musical studies. Although she continued her musical activities throughout college, Ms. Márquez received a degree in American Studies at Northwestern University and a minor in International Studies at the University of Florence, Italy. After working as Assistant Press Secretary to Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, she returned to music full-time in both the US and Mexico. In 2002, Ms. Márquez established the award-winning Latino Arts Strings Program in order to provide immigrant Latinx children with the musical training she received as an immigrant child. After years of arranging traditional music for her students, Dinorah collaborated with playwright Alvaro Saar Rios to compose and arrange the music for On the Wings of a Mariposa.