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KIKAI NO MORI
[...EX MACHINA II] [2009]
[marimba and piano]
[seven movements]
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ISHI NO MORI
[Stone-Forest] [2008]
[Ryuteki and percussion {with audience "stone choir"}]
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Composer Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez was born in Mexico City in 1964 and now lives in the New York Tundra, where he teaches at the Eastman School of Music. He studied with Jacob Druckman, Martin Bresnick, Steven Mackey and Henri Dutilleux at Yale, Princeton and Tanglewood, respectively. He has received many of the standard awards in the field (e.g. Barlow, Guggenheim, Fulbright, Koussevitzky, Fromm, American Academy of Arts and Letters.) He likes machines with hiccups and spiders with missing legs, looks at Paul Klee's Notebooks everyday, hasn't grown much since he reached adulthood at age 14, and tries to use the same set of ears to listen to Bach, Radiohead, or Ligeti.
Recent news:
• New CD recordings: Twittering Machines and ...[and of course Henry the Horse] dances the... More info here
• Carlos is on sabbatical leave from Eastman until January, 2010.
• Carlos has received a Meet the Composer commission to write a piece for shakuhachi and the Colorado String Quartet, to be premiered in 2010.
• The Bogliasco Foundation has awarded Carlos a Foundation Fellowship, as well as the Aaron Copland Fellowship . He will spend 5 weeks this winter at the Bogliasco Foundation's Liguria Center near Genoa, working on a piece for eighth blackbird (see below)
• Carlos is a recipient of a 2008 Fromm Music Foundation Commission. He will write a piece for eighth blackbird, to be premiered at the 2010 Look and Listen Festival in new York City.
• Carlos is the recipient of the 2007 Barlow Prize for Music Composition. He just finished Memos, a piece for the percussion ensembles So Percussion, Kroumata and Nexus, to be premiered in 2011.
A few media appearances:
Watch Carlos on the WSKG television program "Expressions" [ you may want to skip to ca. 8 minutes into the show...]
Listen to an interview with Carlos on WSKG Radio.
Listen to a Modcast of "Luciérnagas", with eighth blackbird
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