(This composer has multiple commissions - click here to view all)

Title: Five Memos
Commission: 2008
Completed: 2010
Instrumentation: chamber ensemble
Premiere Location: Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
Premiere Ensemble: Eighth Blackbird
Notes: Dedicated to Eighth Blackbird.

Title: Clyde Beatty is Dead
Commission: 1999
Completed: 2002
Instrumentation: chamber ensemble
Premiere Location:
Premiere Ensemble: San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
Notes:

Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez was born in Mexico City in 1964 and now lives in the New York tundra, where he is a Professor of 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 Prize, 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, and tries to use the same set of ears to listen to Bach, Radiohead, or Ligeti.