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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:
• Carlos is on sabbatical leave from Eastman until January, 2010.
Carlos' Twittering Machines, for flute and piano is on the recently released Albany Records Cd "Without Borders" by Asako Arai and Cristina Valdes.
• Carlos is a recipient of a 2009 Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship. He will spend 5 weeks this winter at the 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 is writing a piece for the percussion ensembles So Percussion, Kroumata and Nexus, to be premiered in 2011.
• Carlos was Composer-in-Residence at Mexico's Festival Internacional Chihuahua in September, 2008.
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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