Batiz (Campbell), Enrique (b Mexico City 4 May 1942).  Mexican conductor
and pianist.  His first studies began in 1950 on piano with Francisco
Agea, and continued in 1960 with Gyorgy Sandor.  Batiz attended Southern
Methodist University in Dallas, but in 1962 transferred to Juilliard for
piano studies with Adele Marcus, graduating there in 1965.  In the same
year he was a semi-finalist in the Marguerite Long piano competition.  He
then moved to Poland where from 1967-70 he studied piano with Zbignieg
Drzewiecke and conducting with Stanislaw Wislocki.  In 1969 he made his
conducting debut with the Orquestra de Xalapa in Mexico.  Two years later
he made his most important contribution to Mexican music, the founding of
the Orquestra Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico, an ensemble he led until 83,
and again from 1990 to the present.  He also served (1983-89) as Music
Director of the Mexico City PO, and from 1984 has been a principal guest
conductor with the Royal PO in London.  In these several capacities Batiz
has made more than 150 recordings, including Beethoven and Tchaikovsky
cycles.  He has guest-conducted with the most important regional orchestras
in Europe, the Americas, and Asia, and is particularly esteemed for his
performances of Latin music in which colour and blazing rhythms
predominate.

Batiz, Enrique . Enrique  Batiz. Mexico City: Universidad Autonoma
Metropolitana - Azcapotzalco, 1984

Charles Barber