PersonnelDeidre Huckabay, flutesElizabeth Spector, JessicaSmithorn, oboe, English hornIsabel Kim, David Warren, ChesterHoward, Andrew Brown: clarinetsEryn Bauer, bassoon, contrabassonBarbara Larson, saxophoneSophia Goluses, hornBradley Hogarth, Nikola Tomic,trumpetPeter Fanelli, tromboneJung Sun Kang, Bobby Mitchell,Arthur Williford, Eun Mi Ko, CherryTsang, Jacob Ertl: piano, keyboardsMatthew Thomas, MariaFinkelmeier, Sean Connors,Baljinder Sekhon, John Hain,Matthew Witten, Melanie Sehman,Steven Sehman, Amy Garapic,Mark Boseman, Damon Martinez:percussionLucy Haslar, harpHanna Hurwitz, Vivek Jayaraman,Abby Swidle, Aaron Yarme: violinJason Sah, Felix Ungar: violaMariel Roberts, Florent Renard-Payen, Ailbhe McDonnagh: celloScott Worthington, Julia Shulman:bassDieter Hennings, guitarScott Perkins, tenorThomas Lehman, baritoneReuben Blundell, conductorGuest artistsMakoto Nakura, marimbaCristina Valdes, pianoPaul Vaillancourt, percussionTony Arnold, sopranoDaniela D’Ingiullo, sopranoGabriela Thierry, mezzo-sopranoOscar de la Torre, tenorMaurizio Leoni, baritoneReuben Blundell, conductor Recent AppearancesConservatorio de las RosasMorelia, México, 2006Festival SpazioMusicaCagliari, Italy, 2007Joyce Theatre (with Garth Fagan Dance)New York, 2007Nazareth College Arts Center (with Garth FaganDance)Pittsford, New York, 2007Kilbourn HallRochester, New York, 2008Festival Internacional ChihuahuaChihuahua, Mexico, 2008Miller TheatreNew York City, 2010Festival Internacional CervantinoGuanajuato, Mexico, 2010Sala Silvestre RevueltasMexico City, 2010Americas Society, Symphony SpaceNew York City, 2011Recording of Zohn-Muldoon’s Comala, NiñoPolilla, andFlores del Viento for Bridge RecordsUpcoming ProjectsRecording of <strong>Sanchez</strong>-<strong>Gutierrez</strong>’s works for largeensemble for Kleos Recordswww.carlossg.com/broadband.html
<strong>Carlos</strong> <strong>Sanchez</strong>-<strong>Gutierrez</strong>, Artistic Co-Director<strong>Carlos</strong> <strong>Sanchez</strong>-<strong>Gutierrez</strong> was born in Mexico City in 1964 and now lives in the New York Tundra,where he teaches composition 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 andspiders with missing legs, looks at Paul Klee's Notebooks everyday, hasn't grown much since hereached adulthood at age 14, and tries to use the same set of ears to listen to Bach, Radiohead, orLigeti.Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Artistic Co-DirectorRicardo Zohn-Muldoon was born in Guadalajara, México in 1962. After initial guitar studies in México, hepursued his musical education in the U.S., at the University of California, San Diego (B.A.), and at theUniversity of Pennsylvania (M.A.; Ph.D.), where his principal teacher was George Crumb.Zohn-Muldoon’s compositions grow from concise and precisely sculpted musical ideas, which are set tounfold in contrapuntal “kaleidoscopes” of intense rhythm and color. Mexican literature has provided the pointof departure for many of his compositions, such as the scenic cantata Comala, based on Juan Rulfo’s PedroPáramo, and the miniature opera NiñoPolilla on a libretto by Juan Trigos senior. His recent work includes theinterdisciplinary collaborations Encounters, with celebrated cartoonist José Ignacio Solórzano ("Jis"), for aconcert series leading to the FIFA World Cup of 2006; Silueta como Sirena, a setting of songs by songwriterAlfredo Sánchez, written for Sánchez, the Tarab cello ensemble, and the Riverside Symphony; andEdge/Joy, with award-winning choreographer Garth Fagan.Zohn-Muldoon's works have been performed worldwide at venues such as Lincoln Center, TheMetropolitan Museum of Art, Akademie der Schönen Künste (Munich), Ijsbreker Hall (Amsterdam),Festival Cervantino (México), and Festival SpazioMusica (Cagliari). He has been recognized by theGuggenheim Foundation, the Endowment for Culture and the Arts of México (FONCA), the FrommFoundation, Meet the Composer, the Camargo Foundation, the Tanglewood Music Festival (Omar delCarlo Fellowship), and Initiative Neue Musik Berlin, among many others. He is associate professor ofcomposition at the Eastman School of Music. More information can be found at: www.zohnmuldoon.comJuan Trigos, Conductor/ComposerComposer and conductor Juan Trigos is the creator of the concept of Abstract Folklore, in which theobsessive treatment of interlocking musical events and segments of different density and duration over aprimary pulsation, generates a special polyphony of polyrhythmic “resonance.”Among his most representative works are Magnificat Guadalupano, Missa Cunctipotens Genitor Deus,6 Chamber Ricercares, several Concertos for different instruments, his Symphony N. 1 and twoHemofiction Operas: DeCachetitoRaspado and Mis dos cabezas piensan peor que una. His music hasbeen performed extensively throughout Europe and the Americas.As a conductor, he has premiered and promoted an extensive catalogue of new works, both in liveperformance and recording. He has worked with numerous choirs, ensembles and orchestras in Europe,North America and Mexico. He was Conductor and Music Director of the Orquesta de Camara de BellasArtes in Mexico City. Founder, Artistic Director and Conductor of the Sinfonietta de las Américas, andPrincipal Guest Conductor of La Camerata de las Américas.Trigos has recorded in the USA for DarkPress, in Italy for Stradivarius, and in Mexico for Quindecim,FECA of Veracruz, Colegio de Compositores Latinoamericanos de Música de Arte and UAM, BMGEntertainment, Urtext Classics, Global Entertainment, Euram, and Spartacus Classics.www.carlossg.com/broadband.html
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