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Cristian Amigo is an American composer, improviser, guitarist, and ethnomusicologist of Chilean birth. His compositional output includes music for the stage and screen, chamber and orchestral music, opera, avant-jazz and rock music, country blues, and art/pop song. His work has been published by Boosey & Hawkes, Concord Music, and independently. He has also recorded solo albums on the innova and BA labels, most recently ''Kingdom of Jones'' (innova Recordings, 2008). He earned a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from UCLA where he focused on the music of South American musician immigrants in the United States. He is currently composer-in-residence at INTAR Theater in New York City, where he runs the NewMusic Tuesdays concert series, and is a visiting scholar in the New York University Latino Studies program. The 2012 edition of The New Grove Dictionary of American Music (Oxford Press) will contain a 1500-word entry on Amigo and his music. His awards include the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition and the Van Leir Fellowship from Meet the Composer. His work has also been supported and/or produced by organizations including the Brooklyn Philharmonic, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), New York City Opera, Jerome Foundation, American Composers Forum, New York State Music Fund, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Danish Arts Council, Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, LAByrinth Theater Company, Boy Scouts of America, José Limón Dance Company, Sundance Institute’s Film Composer Labs, UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance (APPEX/Asian Pacific Performance Exchange), CSI(CUNY) Foundation, ASK Playwright/Composer Labs, Durfee Foundation, Teatro del Pueblo (Minneapolis), Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Washington, D.C.), INTAR, Oslo Elsewhere, and the 24 Hour Plays. His film scores have been featured at the Sundance Film Festival and the Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival in Los Angeles. Some recent projects include The Gotham Roots Orchestra, an Americana country-blues band that performs selections from Amigo's "66 Americana Songs," and live performances with drummer/composer Gustavo Aguilar, the LA improv collective Surrealestate, and with his "new music jam band" Kingdom of Jones. Amigo also recently collaborated with Jill Sigman/thinkdance and musician Miguel Frasconi on the performance/planting ritual "nu-gro #2.".〔(Biography of Cristian Amigo at allaboutjazz.com )〕 His writing appears in the college reader The Conscious Reader, and the Grateful Dead Live in Conceert (MacFarland). ==Early life and education== Born in Santiago, Chile, Amigo emigrated with his family to the United States as a young child. His father Raul Amigo had his own radio program on a local station which focused on the relationship between the music of Latin America and American popular music. At 12 years old, he began studying music seriously with Joseph Torello in New Haven, Connecticut. Two years later the family moved to Miami, and Amigo began performing with a rock band he formed, ''Six Feet Under''. He attended Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High School (HML) and while a student there taught classes in guitar to his peers.〔(Biography of Cristian Amigo at bmi.com )〕 During his time at HML, Amigo took courses in music theory, classical guitar, and jazz at Miami-Dade Community College. He entered the music program at Florida State University in 1980 at the age 17. While there he studied classical guitar under Bruce Holzman. After earning an Associate of Arts diploma from FSU, Amigo moved to Miami and actively performed in recording sessions and original and cover bands while attending music classes at University of Miami. His first recording session at age 17 was the top 40 Narada Michael Walden-produced "We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off" by Jermaine Stewart. He moved Los Angeles to pursue music and a university education and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from California State University, Northridge, and both a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in Ethnomusicology from the University of California, Los Angeles. He also studied jazz with Kenny Burrell and Gary Pratt, and the sitar with Harihar Rao. His professors at UCLA included Anthony Seeger, Susan McClary, Edwin Seroussi, Tara Browner, Ali Jihad Racy, and Jacqueline Djedje. In LA he also studied composition with Wadada Leo Smith for a short time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cristian Amigo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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