Carlos Prieto (cellist)
Carlos Prieto (* 1937 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican cellist.
Prieto had cello lessons from the age of four. His teacher was Imre Hartman , later he studied with Pierre Fournier in Geneva and with Leonard Rose in New York. He also studied engineering and economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
Prieto has performed with many major orchestras in North and South America, Europe and Asia. He played the world premieres of more than fifty works, many of which were dedicated to him by composers such as Joaquín Rodrigo , Manuel Castillo , Tomas Marco and Robert X. Rodriguez . During the celebrations for Johann Sebastian Bach's 300th birthday , he performed with Bach's cello suites in New York, Philadelphia, Paris, Moscow, Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, Mexico and Bogota.
In 1992 he received an award from the City of Los Angeles for his contribution to understanding between Mexico and the USA through his music. In 1995 the Austrian ambassador to Mexico awarded him the Mozart Medal. In the same year he became head of the foundation of the Las Rosas Conservatory. In 1999 he was appointed Officier des Arts et Lettres .
The University of Indiana honored him with the Eva Janzer Award and Yale University with the Cultural Leadership Citation . In 2004 he became a member of the University of Texas Fine Arts Advisory Council and in 2006 the King of Spain awarded him the Spanish Civil Merit Order. The Conservatorio de las Rosas and the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes de México organize the Concurso Internacional de Violonchelo Carlos Prieto every three years .
Prieto has recorded more than eighty works on CD, including the cello suites by Bach, works by Shostakovich , Saint-Saëns , Boccherini , Fauré , Tchaikovsky , Kodály , Bruch , Martinů and an eleven-part series with compositions by Latin American and Spanish musicians. He also wrote six books about his experiences as a world traveler and musician.
Discography
- The Sonatas by Dmitri Shostakovich with Doris Stevenson , piano
- De Bach a Piazzolla with Edison Quintana , Juan Luis Prieto , Jesús Castro-Balbi
- Tres Conciertos para Violoncello y Orquesta with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa
- Del Barroco y del Romanticismo al siglo XXI with Edison Quintana , Juan Luis Prieto, Juan Hermida
- Sonatas y Danzas de Mexico , works by Manuel María Ponce , Alfonso de Elías , Silvestre Revueltas , Miguel Bernal-Jimenez , Manuel Enriquez
- Conciertos para el fin del Milenio , world premiere of works by Eugenio Toussaint , Arturo Márquez and Roberto Sierra
- A Prieto World premiere of works by Samuel Zyman , Claudia Calderon , Xavier Montsalvatge , Juan Orrego Salas , Alberto Villalpando and Tomas Marco , with Jesus Castro-Balbi
- Espejos (Mirrors) with Edison Quintana
- Ibarra - Zyman: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra with the Philharmonia International of Mexico under Jesus Medina and the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico under Enrique Diemecke
- Carlos Prieto, cello , works by Kodály and Shostakovich with the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra under Luis Herrera de la Fuente and Max Bruch Kol Nidre with The National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico under Enrique Diemecke
- JS Bach: The Suites for Cello. Suites No. 1, 2 and 3
- Le Grand Tango Works by Astor Piazzolla , Alberto Ginastera , Hector Villa-Lobos , Federico Ibarra , Robert X. Rodriguez , Manuel Enriquez with Edison Quintana
- Sonatas & Fantasias by Robert Gerhard , Alberto Ginastera , Samuel Zyman , Gaspar Cassadó , Joaquín Rodrigo , Astor Piazzolla , with Edison Quintana
- Azul y Verde with works by Alberto Ginastera , Ricardo Lorenz , Aldemaro Romero , Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt , Jaurés Lamarque-Pons , Celso Garrido Lecca and Joaquin Nin
- Conciertos y Chôro , works by Mozart Camargo Guarnieri , Federico Ibarra and Carlos Chavez
- Cello Music from Latin America Vol. I-XI
Fonts
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Las aventuras de un violonchelo. Autobiography. Fondo De Cultura Economica 1998, ISBN 9681661478 .
English edition: The adventures of a cello. University of Texas Press, Austin 2006, ISBN 0-292-71322-3 . ( Content )
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personal data | |
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SURNAME | Prieto, Carlos |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican cellist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1937 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico city |