1.36 - Jorge Vargas
Jorge Luis Vargas was born in Piedras Negras, Coahuila in 1971 and currently resides in Eagle Pass, Texas. His full time job is a band director at Memorial Junior High, where he teaches beginner band, concert band, and Mariachi. His writing career started when he was asked to arrange several mariachi mariachi songs for the local high school. After several years of honing his skills as a mariachi composer and arranger, He wrote his first marching band show for CC Winn High School in Eagle Pass.
After a few years of writing for marching band, he decided to take a chance and submit a string orchestra arrengement of Cielito Lindo to Grand Mesa Music. The arrangenmet was published and is on the J W Pepper Editor's choice list. In 2018, Red Giant, his first composition published by Alfred music was released. Since then, Jorge has released several band works published by Alfred Music, Randall Standridge Music, Wingert-Jones Music, and Excelcia Music. Several of his band compositions have been added to the Editor's Choice list, and his band compositions, and some of his peces have also been played at Midwest.
His education includes a Bachelor's degree in Music Education from The University Of Texas-San Antonio, and a Master’s degree in Education from from Lamar University
