Education
Cortés studied with Henry Cowell, Richard Donovan, Ingolf Dahl, Vittorio Giannini, Roger Sessions, Halsey Stevens, and, in Rome on a Fulbright Fellowship, with Goffredo Petrassi.
Cortés studied with Henry Cowell, Richard Donovan, Ingolf Dahl, Vittorio Giannini, Roger Sessions, Halsey Stevens, and, in Rome on a Fulbright Fellowship, with Goffredo Petrassi.
He worked for a brief period in the 1960s as a computer programmer, and then taught composition at the University of California, Los Angeles (1966-1967), University of Southern California (1967-1972), and the University of Utah (1972-1984). His earlier compositions employed serial technique, but beginning in the late 1960s he turned to a freer form of chromatic atonality.
