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.) Carlos co-directs the Eastman BroadBand Ensemble. 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: ...[and of course Henry the Horse] dances the...
and Cinco para Cuatro. More info here
• Carlos is currently writing "Diaries", a piece for piano and chamber orchestra for Daniel Pesca and the Orchestra of the League of Composers, to be premiered June 4, 2012 at Miller Theatre (NYC)
A few media appearances:
• Read an interview (in Spanish) on Letras Vivas
• Read an interview on NewMusicBox
• Read an interview on 21st-Century Music
• Listen to a WXXI radio feature on Carlos and the Eastman BroadBand.
• 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
Check out this great ensemble I co-direct: 