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Artist Bio

Cristian Amigo is a New York City-based American/Latinx composer, sound designer, guitarist, and producer. Known as an acoustic and an electric jazz/blues guitarist and improviser, Amigo composes music/noise/sound for live performance, theatre, movement, chamber ensembles, jazz bands, opera, installation, and film. Amigo’s awards include a 2016-2019 Fulbright Scholar/Artist Fellowship to Bolivia, a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in music composition, and the Van Lier Fellowship from Meet the Composer. He has a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from UCLA and has studied theory, composition, and performance with masters from various world music traditions. The 2012 New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Oxford Press) contains an entry on Amigo and his music. Recent performances include the NYC Latin FreeJazz Festival, Vision Festival, NYC Alternative Guitar Festival, and The World Festival of Sacred Music (LA). He is currently artist-in-residence at INTAR Latino Theater in New York City and teaches Sound Design at BMCC (CUNY).

His work has also been supported and/or produced by organizations including the Philharmonic, Knitting Factory (LA), BET, Playboy Jazz Festival, Vision Festival, El Taller Latinoamericano, MicroFEST NYC, BIRDFest (Amsterdam), Brooklyn Museum, Flea Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, PUBLIC Theater, Rattlestick Theater, Ma-Yi Theater Company, LAByrinth Theater Company, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), New York City Opera, Jerome Foundation, American Composers Forum, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), 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, José Limón Dance Company, Sundance Institute’s Film Composer Labs, UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance (APPEX) , CSI(CUNY) Foundation, ASK Playwright/Composer Labs, Durfee Foundation, Teatro del Pueblo (Minneapolis), Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Washington, D.C.), INTAR Theater, Oslo Elsewhere, Atlantic Theater, Brava Theater (San Francisco), Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, New Dramatists, 59E59, Making Books Sing, The Coterie, El Paper Magazine, White Fungus, La Peña de Berkeley, 3-Legged Dog, Inner-City Arts (LA), Teatro del Pueblo (Minneapolis), Frank Sinatra High School for the Performing Arts, UCLA, USF, CSU Dominguez Hills, CSU Stanislaus, CSU Northridge, University of Oregon, Bates College, CSU San Diego, UC Riverside, NYU, and CSI (CUNY).

Amigo has collaborated with hundreds of music, theater, and dance artists (and poets) including Poet Laureate of the United States , Elliott Sharp, Bern Nix, J.D. Parran, , Carlos Hayre, JACK Quartet, The John Cage Big Band, jill sigman/thinkdance, Wadada Leo Smith, Hans Tammen, Jason Kao Hwang, Miguel Frasconi, Justo Almario, Hans Zimmer, Mark Mancina, Ruth Margraff, Alice Tuan, Kevin Mambo, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Alexis Marcelo, Angela Babin, Kristin Norderval, Royce Vavrek, Lauren Worsham, Migdalia Cruz, Eve Beglarian, Mary Rowell, Martin Tillman, Michael John Garces, Lou Moreno, David Anzuelo, and Renato Rosaldo.

!1 Cristian Amigo curriculum vitae Cristian Amigo Curriculum Vitae (Web Version) - 10/17/18

[email protected] - cristianamigo.com Telephone: (646) 266-8823

EDUCATION

Ph.D. – Ethnomusicology, 2003 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Dissertation title: “Latino Music, Identity and Ethnicity: Two Case Studies” Committee chair: Dr. Anthony Seeger, Professor/UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology Curator Emeritus/Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

M.A. – Ethnomusicology, 1998 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

B.A. – Political Science, 1995 California State University, Northridge (CSUN)

ARTISTIC AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES

2016-2019 Fulbright Scholar/Artist Award. Bolivia. U.S. Department of State. 2017-2019 Pua School of Music. Cochabamba, Bolivia. Artist-in-Residence. 2017 Sustainable Bolivia. Artist-in-Residence. 2017 Enseñarte. Cochabamba, Bolivia. Artist-in-Residence. 2016 Southeastern Connecticut Science and Technology Magnet High School. Artist-in-Residence. 2016 Winthrop STEM Elementary Magnet School. Artist-in-Residence. New London, CT. 2015 NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) grant to produce New York New Music (Vol. 2). 2015-2017 Expressiones Cultural Center. Artist-in-Residence. New London, CT. 2013 Labyrinth Theater Company. Summer Intensive Artist-in-Residence. New London, CT. 2010- 2017 INTAR Theatre (NYC) Composer-in-Residence. 2012 USArtists International grant for performance at Birdfest 2012 (Rotterdam). 2009-2010 NEA Fellowship to produce 5 CD anthology of NYFA composers on innova Recordings. 2006-2007 Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition. 2008 New York State Music Fund award for Kingdom of Jones innova recordings release. 2008 New York City Opera. Observership for production of Verdi’s Falstaff. 2007-2008 American Lyric Theater (NYC). Artist-in-residence. 2007-2008 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. Resident artist. Calliope-The Pittsburgh Folk Music Society. 2006-2007 Brooklyn Philharmonic composer fellow. 2006 Danish Arts Council arts research and travel grant. 2006 Danish Intuitive Music Conference. Composer and visiting artist. 2004 Raw Impressions Music Theatre Fellow (NYC). 2003 Meet the Composer Van Lier Fellowship. 2003 American Composers Forum Subito award for a live performance at the Getty Center (LA). 2002 Durfee Foundation Fellowship for performances at 2002 World Festival of Sacred Music. 2000 Open Studio/OnRamp Digital Arts. Visiting artist. 2000 APPEX (Asian Pacific Performance Exchange)/UCLA CIP. Visiting artist 2000 UCLA Artsbridge Fellow/Scholar. 2000 A.S.K. Theater Projects/Nautilus Music Theater Playwright/Composer Studio. Music Fellow. 1999 Sundance Filmmakers Labs (Sundance, Utah). Film Composition Fellow. !2 Cristian Amigo curriculum vitae ARTISTIC AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES (Cont.)

1999 Music Center of Los Angeles Education Institute. Visiting artist/teacher. 1997-98 Elaine Krowne Klein Fine Arts Fellowship - UCLA.

ACADEMIC AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS

2017–2019 Universidad Mayor San Simon. Cochabamba, Bolivia. Music Dept. Visiting Professor. 2007–2011 New York University/Latino Studies Program. Visiting Scholar. 2005–2007 New York University/Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Visiting Scholar. 2006 Yale Institute of Sacred Music scholarship. Summer session scholarship. 2004-2005 The Asia Society and the Ford Foundation. Principal Investigator. “Artistic Production & Cultural Identity In U.S. Immigrant Communities.” 2001-2002 Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Latino Studies Fellowship. 2000-2001 UCLA Graduate Research Mentorship. 1998-2000 Title VI (National Resource Fellow) language awards in Portuguese-UCLA 1996-2000 UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology Fellowships. 1999 Summer Research Mentorship - UCLA Graduate Division. 1998 Tinker Fellow (Research grant for fieldwork in Chile)/UCLA Latin American Center. 1995 Jenniellen Ferguson Memorial Award (Outstanding Department Senior) – CSUN. 1994-95 President’s Associates Scholarship – CSUN.

MUSIC COMMISSIONS

2018 Gibney Dance Center. jill sigman/thinkdance’s This Is Where We Are. 2018 Fordam University Theater Department. Anne Carson’s Antigonick. 2016-2017 Cherry Lane Theater. Queen Latina. 2016 Vertigo Theater Company. Street Children. 2016 Coney Island USA. Killing Republicans: A Rock Opera. 2015 INTAR Theater. Satiricoño. 2011 Lost Dog New Music Ensemble. Cosmicomics No. 1. 2011 New Georges Theater Company. The Germ Project. 2011 Cornerstone Theater (LA). Naomi Iizuka’s 3 Truths. 2010 World Festival of Sacred Music (LA). Right Here, Right Now for Surrealestate. 2010 College of Staten Island Foundation. String Quartet No. 3. 2009 Jill Sigman/thinkdance. Three video shorts. 2009 New Dramatists. Michael John Garcés’ Earthquake Weather. 2009 Geva Theatre Center (Rochester, NY). Clementine in the Lower Ninth. 2009 LAByrinth Theater Company. David Anzuelo’s Minotaur. 2009 College of Staten Island Foundation. String Quartet No. 2. 2008 Commission from Academy-Award winning director Bobby Houston to compose music for his cabaret-musical Castronauts. 2008 La Jolla Playhouse. Juan Felipe Herrera’s Salsalandia. 2008 American Lyric Theatre. The one act opera Nylons. 2007 Calliope Arts (Pittsburgh). Compose, produce, and perform a solo CD based on Latin American folk music forms. 2007 Making Books Sing. José, a music/dance piece based on the life of José Limón. 2007 Brooklyn Philharmonic. Some Brooklyn Dances for Orchestra. 2007 Brooklyn Philharmonic. And Now… for clarinet, violin, piano, and percussion.

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2006 Oslo Elsewhere commission to compose music for Henrik Ibsen’s Rosmersholm. 2006 Ma-Yi Theater Company. MacArthur Fellow Han Ong’s Swoony Planet. 2006 Oslo Elsewhere. Jon Fosse’s Death Variations. 2006 College of Staten Island Foundation. String Quartet No. 3. 2006 Commission (private) to compose energy, impressions of (guitar, cello, and electronics). 2005 INTAR (NYC) commission to compose music for Michael John Garcés’ points of departure. 2004 Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Washington, D.C.) commission to compose music for Pulitzer-nominated playwright Craig Wright’s Grace. 2004 Teatro del Pueblo (Minneapolis). Ric Oquita’s Echoes from Latin America. 2002 Making Books Sing. Juan Felipe Herrera's award-winning The Upside Down Boy. 2001-2002 Jerome Foundation/American Composers Forum. Folklore Nuevayorquino.

UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Adjunct Professor. BMCC/CUNY (Borough of Manhattan Community College). Department of Speech, Communication, and Theater Fall 2018 - Course taught: Sound Design for Theater: Practicum

Visiting Professor. Universidad Mayor San Simon (Cochabamba, Bolivia) Winter 2017 - 2019 Course taught: The Quantum Dominant Seventh Chord in Blues and Jazz.

Adjunct Assistant Professor, College of Staten Island/CUNY Fall 2005 - present Course taught: Introduction to World Music

Adjunct Professor, New York University/Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Fall 2004 Course taught: Latin(o) American Music (graduate seminar)

UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE (Cont.)

Teaching Assistant, University of California, Los Angeles, 1998 – 1999 Courses taught: History of Rock. Summer 1999 Music of Mexico and the Caribbean. Spring 1999 History and Development of Jazz/102A. Winter 1999 History and Development of Jazz/102B. Fall 1998 Chicano and Latino Music in the U.S. Winter 1998

PANELS/CONSULTANT WORK

New York State Council for the Arts. Music panelist. Folklore panelist. 2016, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011. New York State Council for the Arts. Chair of music panels and representative to NYSCA Board. 2015. USA Artists. Music panel chair. 2010. City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department. Arts panelist. 2010 Meet the Composer. Commissioning Music/USA. Panelist. National Performance Network. Arts Panelist. 2010. !4 Cristian Amigo curriculum vitae PANELS/CONSULTANT WORK (Cont.)

USA Artists. Music panelist. 2009. New York Foundation for the Arts. Artist Advisory Committee. Music composition. 2005-2008. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. The New York State Music Fund. Consultant. 2007. Meet the Composer. Van Lier Fellowship. Consultant. June 2005. Ford Foundation and Asia Society. Artistic Production & Cultural Identity in U.S. Immigrant Communities. Consultant. May 2004. National Endowment for the Arts/Meet the Composer. Commissioning Music/USA. Panelist. February 2004. Center for Traditional Music and Dance (New York City). Peruvian Community Cultural Initiative. Consultant. 2003-2004.

SELECTED MUSIC COMPOSITIONS AND PERFORMANCES

This Is Where We Are. Original music/guitarist. Jill Sigman/Thinkdance. Gibney Dance Center (NYC). October 19-23, 2018.

Hair: 50th Anniversary Versioning. Featured performer. Spectrum (Brooklyn). October 23, 2018.

Raza and Resistance Festival. J.D. Parran Band. Guitarist/improviser/composer. El Taller Latino Americano (NYC). October 17, 2018.

Antigonick. Original music to play by Anne Carson. Pope Theater @ Fordham University. October 1-10, 2018

William Hooker Band. Guitarist. Funkadelic Studios (NYC). September 21, 2018.

Cochabamba Jazz Festival. Featured performer. The Jazz Stop. Cochabamba, Bolivia. May 18, 2018.

Julius Eastman: Crazy Evil Gay. Guitarist. The Kitchen/The Knockdown Center (NYC). January 28, 2018.

Cristian Amigo Deep Ecology Trio. w/J.D. Parran, Andrew Drury, and Jackson Krall. Evolving Free Jazz Series, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Education Center. January 6, 2018.

Red Hook Jazz Festival. Guitarist. Matt Lavelle and 12 Houses Orchestra. Red Hook (NYC). June 18, 2017.

Tiquipaya Golden Blues Band. Guitarist. Various venues in Bolivia. April-June, 2017

The Women of Padilla. Sound Designer/guitarist. Two River Theatre. Red Bank, NJ. April 8-30, 2017.

Inhumano. Guitarist. Teatro Adela Zamudio. Cochabamba, Bolivia. April 8, 2017.

Queen Latina. Original music to play by David Anzuelo. Composer (NYC). Cherry Lane Theater. 2016-17.

Composers Concordance Festival. Composer/guitarist. Spectrum (NYC). March 13, 2017

Picasso:Payaso. Opera with libretto by Alejandro Vallega. Composer. 2016-17.

!5 Cristian Amigo curriculum vitae SELECTED MUSIC COMPOSITIONS AND PERFORMANCES (Cont.)

Street Children. Original music to play by Pia Skala-Zankel. Vertigo Theater Company. October, 2016.

Iceberg Project X (IPX). Expressiones Cultural Center and New London School District. Composer and Lead Designer. Multimedia installation project. October, 2015 - April, 2016.

Killing Republicans: A Rock Opera. Composer. Coney Island USA. April-May, 2016.

Third Eye Electric Band Plays The Music Of . Guitarist. OutToSee Festival (NYC) March 4, 2016.

Cristian Amigo Deep Ecology Trio. w/J.D. Parran and Andrew Drury. Justice is Compassion Festival (NYC). Arts for Arts, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Education Center. Feb. 15, 2016. DADA’s 100 Year Anniversary @ Spectrum. Guitarist/Composer. Spectrum (NYC). Feb. 10, 2016.

Indigo Blue. William Hooker Residency, w/Bern Nix. Guitarist. The Stone (NYC). Feb. 9, 2016.

Weed/Heart. jill sigman/thinkdance. Artist. Lehman College (NYC). Jan. 24, 2016.

The Trials of Patricia Isasa. By Kristen Norderval. Guitarist. Roulette (Brooklyn). Jan. 13, 2016.

Satyricoño. Original music to play by Migdalia Cruz. Composer. INTAR Theater. July, 2015.

El Paper. Guitarist. Bushwick Open Arts Festival. June 6, 2015.

Cristian Amigo and Feeding Goats. Guitarist. ABC No Rio/C.O.M.A. (NYC). May 17, 2015.

Cristian Amigo and Juan Pablo Carletti. Cochabamba Blues. Open Studio Festival. Local Project LIC (NYC). May 16, 2015.

Closing Music. Our Earth/Our World Series. w/Steve Swell, Henry Grimes, James Brandon Lewis. Arts for Arts, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Education Center. May 1, 2015.

Cristian Amigo Deep Ecology Trio. w/J.D. Parran and Andrew Drury. Our Earth/Our World Series. Arts for Arts, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Education Center. April 15, 2015.

Cristian Amigo & Renato Rosaldo: The Day of Shelly’s Death. Archeological Museum. Cochabamba, Bolivia. April 7, 2015.

William Hooker Sextet. Guitarist. Central Connecticut State University (CCSU). March 4, 2015.

Cristian Amigo Deep Ecology Trio. w/J.D. Parran and Andrew Drury. Latin FreeJazz Festival. Metro Baptist Church (NYC). November 8, 2015.

I Never Metaguitar III. Record release party performance. Cornelia St. Café (NYC). November 26, 2015.

St. Ann’s Church. Solo guitar. NYFA Board of Directors Meeting. Brooklyn (NYC). September 23, 2015.

The Rolling Outcome. Angela Babin and Cristian Amigo Duo. Musica Brasileira Concert. Jan Hus Presbyterian Church (NYC). January 23, 2015.

Elliott Sharp. Syndakit. Guitarist. Spectrum (NYC). July 16, 2014. !6 Cristian Amigo curriculum vitae SELECTED MUSIC COMPOSITIONS AND PERFORMANCES (Cont.)

Elliott Sharp and Cristian Amigo Duo. Vox Novus/Composers Voice 5th Annual Guitar Concert.

Jan Hus Presbyterian Church (NYC). June 15, 2014.

Cristian Amigo and Blaise Siwula Duo. ABC No Rio/C.O.M.A. (NYC). February 15, 2015.

Cristian Amigo Deep Ecology Trio. w/J.D. Parran and Andrew Drury. Conjure Collective Winter- Fest. Brooklyn. January 15, 2015.

University of Oregon. Solo guitar concert and lecture. Dec 10, 2014.

Crossroad’s Festival Music and Poetry. Record release concert. November. 2014.

William Hooker Group. Guitarist. Shapeshifter (Brooklyn) November. 2014.

International Strange Music Day. Angela Babin/Cristian Amigo Duo. Spectrum (NYC). August 24, 2014.

Bern Nix and Cristian Amigo Duo. Why Not Jazz Series (NYC). July 7. 2014.

Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars Part 3. Composer/guitarist. December 23. 2013.

Composers Concordance Festival. Composer/guitarist. DROM (NYC). December 2013, 2012, 2011.

Cristian Amigo Group/William Hooker Group. INTAR Theater. December 3, 2013.

Warren Neidich. NSA-USA: Sound as Prophecy. Guitarist. Emily Harvey Foundation. Nov. 15-16, 2013.

JD Parran Group. Guitarist. INTAR Theater. November 7, 2013. jill sigman/thinkdance @ Barishnykov Arts Center. Composer/guitarist. October 2013.

Elliott Sharp. Syndakit. Guitarist. The Stone. October 2013.

Conjure Music Collective Ensemble. INTAR Theater, October 3, 2013. eL Paper Magazine w/poets Sine Die, David McLoghlin, and Elisa Montesinos. McNally Jackson (NYC) September 28, 2013.

Daphne Rubin-Vega. Frequently Unanswered Questions. Music Director/guitarist. LAByrinth Summer Institute. July 2013.

Amigo/Tor Snyder Duo @ Arts for Art. Composer/guitarist. LES Gallery (NYC). June 30, 2013.

Vox Novus/Composers Voice 5th Annual Guitar Concert. Composer/guitarist. Jan Hus Presbyterian Church (NYC). June 23, 2013.

Lumen 2013 Festival. Guitarist. Izzi Ramkissoon Ensemble. Staten Island, NY. June 2013.

MicroFEST NYC Spectrum³. Guitarist. Duet with Bassoonist Johnny Reinhardt. American Festival of Microtonal Music. Spectrum (NYC). May 19, 2013.

!7 Cristian Amigo curriculum vitae SELECTED MUSIC COMPOSITIONS AND PERFORMANCES (Cont.)

Pinkolandia. Guitarist. INTAR. May, 2013.

Basilica. Guitarist. Rattlestick Theater. May, 2013.

Tilted Axes @ The New Music Bake Sale. Composer/guitarist. Roulette. Brooklyn, NY. May 23, 2013.

Imaginary People: Amigo/Gelsey Bell/Miguel Frasconi. Composer/guitarist. Firehouse. Brooklyn, NY. April 18, 2013.

Elliot Sharp Guitar Trio @ The Alternative Guitar Festival. Guitarist. Shapeshifter (NYC) January, 2013.

Amigo/Andrew Drury/Jason Kao Hwang. Composer/guitarist. Culturefix (NYC). May, 2013.

Amigo/Du Yun/Theo Metz. Composer/guitarist. The Stone (NYC). December 27, 2012.

Patrick Grant:Tilted Axes Ensemble. Guitarist. Winter Make Music New York. December, 2012, 2011.

The Battle of San Jacinto. Music director/guitarist. Fordham University. December 10 -17, 2012.

Amigo/Elliot Sharp Duo. Composer/guitarist. INTAR Festival of Roots and New Music. INTAR. November, 2012.

Ten One-Minute Pieces. Generación Espontánea Ensemble. Featured composer @ VIII Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea in Morelia, Mexico. June 9, 2012.

The John Cage Variety Show Big Band. Composer/guitarist. The Stone. September 5, 2012.

Amigo/Gustavo Aguilar/Michael Varekamp. Composer/guitarist. Birdfest 2012. Rotterdam, Netherlands. November, 2012.

The Gotham Roots Orchestra. Composer/guitarist. Abrons Arts Center, INTAR, The Suffolk Arts@Rennaisance. Ronald McDonald House (NYC). 2011-12.

Notes on the Balinese Cockfight. Amigo/Gustavo Aguilar/Renato Rosaldo. Composer/performer/director. University of Maine, Farmington. (2) performances. March, 2012.

HUT #7 w/jill sigman/thinkdance and Miguel Frasconi. Composer/performer. Arts @ Rennaisance. June, 2012.

Spontaneous River Orchestra. Guitarist. Vision Festival, Brecht Forum, Chinatown Cultural Center. (NYC). 2009-12.

Bad Time to Be A Fish w/Lucrecia Novoa and jill sigman/thinkdance. Composer/guitarist. Arts @ Renaissance. July, 2012.

Kingdom of Jones. Composer/guitarist. The Stone, Local 269, INTAR, MMNY. CSI (CUNY) 2008-12.

Amigo/Satoshi Takeishi duo. Composer/guitarist. ABC No Rio (NYC). March, 2012.

!8 Cristian Amigo curriculum vitae SELECTED MUSIC COMPOSITIONS AND PERFORMANCES (Cont.)

Amigo/Dom Minasi duo. Composer/guitarist. IBeam. Brooklyn NY. September, 2011.

Amigo/Blaise Siwula duo. Composer/guitarist. ABC No Rio (NYC). June, 2012.

Bushwick Open Studios. Composer/guitarist. May 2011, 2012.

Amigo/Michael Evans. Composer/Guitarist. Don Pedro, Brooklyn, NY. May 2012.

World Festival of Sacred Music w/Surrealestate. Composer/guitarist. Inner-City Arts (Los Angeles). October, 2011.

California State University Stanislaus w/Surrealestate. Composer/guitarist. October, 2011.

California State University Dominguez Hills w/Surrealestate. Composer/guitarist. October, 2011.

Evening All Afternoon. Composer. New Georges: The Germ Project. 3LD Arts and Technology Center. June, 2011.

Elliott Sharp. Syndakit. Guitarist. Roulette. March, 2011.

Amigo/Surrealestate. Composer/guitarist. California State University Stanislaus. October, 2011.

The UMF Book of Notations. University of Maine, Farmington. March, 2011.

Wild Music for Electric Guitar and Drums @ Bates College w/Gustavo Aguilar. Composer/guitarist. March, 2011.

Amigo/Daniel Carter duo. Composer/guitarist. INTAR Theater, ABC No Rio.. February, 2011.

Nu Gro #2: Apocalyptic Garden Party w/jill sigman/thinkdance and Miguel Frasconi. INTAR Theater. April, 2012.

Strung Out Guitar Orchestra. Guitarist. Local 269. April, 2012.

Bushwick Open Studio. Composer/guitarist. Hybrid Theater. June, 2012.

Izzi Ramkissoon Quartet. Composer/guitarist. CULTUREFix. June, 2012.

Brim w/Eve Beglarian and Mary Rowell (ETHEL). Guitarist. DUMBO Artfest. Roulette (NYC), 2011.

Amigo/Andrew Drury and Anders Nillsson. Guitarist. INTAR Theater. 2011.

Amigo/Andrew Drury/Hans Tammen. Brecht Forum (NYC). 2011.

Amigo/Andrew Drury/Francois Grillot. Universityof the Streets. 2011.

66 Americana Songs (125 compositions). Composer/librettist. 2011.

ARK Guitar Trio. Guitarist. Local 269 (NYC). 2010.

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Three Truths. Composer. Grand Performances (Los Angeles). June, 2010.

Killing Play. Composer/guitarist Rattlestick Theater. January, 2010.

Spontaneous River. guitarist. Vision Festival (NYC). June, 2009.

Minotaur. Composer/guitarist The Public Theater. November, 2009.

Clementine in the Lower Ninth. Composer/guitarist. GEVA Theater Center (Rochester, NY). June, 2009.

Earthquake Weather. Composer/guitarist. New Dramatists. March, 2009.

Salsalandia. Composer. La Jolla Playhouse (UC San Diego). January, 2008.

Nylons. Composer. Symphony Space (NYC)/American Lyric Theater. Members of the New York City Opera. January 7, 2008.

String Quartet No. 2. Composer. CSI/CUNY. 2007.

Soldados. Composer/guitarist. The Flea Theater/Music With a View music series (NYC). Curated by Kathy Supove. December 3, 2007.

Kingdom of Jones. Composer/guitarist. Bates College, UCLA, UC Riverside, CSU Stanislaus, CSI (CUNY), USF, LAByrinth Theater Labs. 2007-2009.

String Quartet No. 1. Composer. The Tank (NYC). JACK Quartet. November 11, 2007.

A, B, C identity songs. Composer. Brooklyn Philharmonic/Brooklyn Museum Off the Walls concert series. April 29, 2007.

Some Brooklyn Dances for Orchestra. Composer. Brooklyn Philharmonic. March 10, 2007.

Jose. Composer/guitarist. City Center/APAP. January 12, 2008.

Killing Play. Composer. The Public Theater/Labyrinth Theater Company. December 2007. Picasso Dying. Composer. Final Scene from larger proposed opera. American Lyric Theatre. November, 2007.

God is a Bullet. Composer. One Tree Hill 2007 Season Finale. Warner Bros. Producer Mark Schwahn.

Energy, Impressions of. Composer/guitarist. College of Staten Island/CUNY. April 15, 2006.

Rosmersholm. Composer. Written by Henrik Ibsen and directed by Timothy Douglas. 59E59. New York. August-September 2006.

Death Variations. Composer. Written by Jon Fosse and directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde. 59E59. New York. August-September 2006.

Swoony Planet. Composer. Queens Theater-in-the-Park. New York, July 2006. Written by Han Ong and directed by Ron Daniels.

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Killing. Composer. Atlantic Theatre, New York. May 2006.

Echoes of Latin America. Composer. Teatro del Pueblo, Minneapolis. 2006-2007). Written by Ric Oquita.

Points of Departure. Composer. Theatre Row/Kirk Theater. New York. February 2006. Written by Michael John Garcés and directed by Ron Daniels.

Monk Sketches. Composer/guitarist with special guest, composer/saxophonist Fred Ho. New York, NY: El Taller Latinoamericano. June 20, 2005.

An Evening with Two Composers: Cristian Amigo and David Keberle, Composer/guitarist. College of Staten Island/CUNY. April 12, 2005.

Grace. Composer. Theater. Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. Washington, D.C. November – December 2004. Written by Craig Wright and directed by Michael John Garcés.

Soldados. Composer. Music Theater. New York: Raw Impressions Music Theater February 2004.

Upside Down Boy. Composer. Music Theater. Making Books Sing. Jan – Feb, 2004 (Queens Theatre-in- the-Park, Lehman College, Kingsborough Community College). Book by J.F. Herrera.

Thunderweavers. Composer/guitarist. H.M. Williams Auditorium, the Getty Center. April 13, 2003.

Cristian Amigo with the Maestro Carlos Hayre. Composer/guitarist. Los Angeles, CA: Plaza Methodist Church/2002 World Festival of Sacred Music. September 21, 2002.

Cristian Amigo with the Maestro Carlos Hayre. Composer/guitarist. Pasadena, CA: The Armory Center for the Arts/2002 World Festival of Sacred Music. September 20, 2002.

Cristian Amigo. Composer/guitarist. Berkeley, CA: La Peña de Berkeley/September Festival of Chilean Music and Art. September 12, 2002.

Routes of Folklore. Composer/guitarist. New York, NY: Westpark Presbyterian Church (Broadway Uptown Music Series). July 28, 2002.

Folklore Nuevayorquino. Composer/guitarist. New York, NY: American Museum of Natural History. July 20, 2002.

David Ornette Cherry and Impressions of Energy. Guitarist. Valencia, CA: CalArts. July 13, 2002.

Wadada Leo Smith and Nuru Light. Guitarist. Hollywood, CA: Rocco. April 26-27, 2002.

Mochi Parra. San Francisco and Berkeley, CA: Brava Theater and La Peña de Berkeley. Ensemble member/acoustic guitarist. April 6-9, 2002.

Folklore Nuevayorquino. Featured Composer/guitarist. New York, NY: El Taller Latinoamericano. February 22, 2002.

Time, Emit Time and Transitions. Co-composer/music director. Los Angeles: APPEX (Asian Pacific Performance Exchange) July-August, 2000. Directed by Judy Mitoma.

!11 Cristian Amigo curriculum vitae Overstay. Original film score. Directed by Ann Kaneko. Los Angeles: 1998. Documentary Film. Official selection of the 1998 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival.

SELECTED RECORDINGS/VIDEO/NEW MEDIA

Deep Ecology Trio: Sticks and Stones. Featured artist/producer. Deep Ecology Recordings 2015. CD. The NYFA Collection Vol. 2: 25 Years of New York New Music. Producer. innova Recordings 2015. CD. I Never Metaguitar III. Featured artist. Curated by Elliott Sharp. Clean Feed 2014. CD The Buzzy Garden. Featured artist/composer/guitarist. innova Recordings 2014. CD Symphony of Souls: Spontaneous River Orchestra. guitarist. Edge Recordings 2012 The NYFA Collection: 25 Years of New York New Music. Producer/performer. innova Recordings/NAXOS 2010. 10 CDs (5 CD anthology and 5 single releases) Kingdom of Jones. Featured artist/composer/guitarist. innova Recordings 2008. CD. Cristian Amigo: Live LA Sessions/Vol. 1. Featured artist. Anaheim, CA: BA Records 2002. CD. Wadada Leo Smith’s Nuru Light: Live in Hollywood. Guitarist. Valencia: Kiom Music 2002. CD. Cheick-Tidiane Seck and the UCLA Griot Society. Guitarist. Los Angeles: UCLA Ethnomusicology Publications 2002. CD. APPEX 2000. Featured artist in documentary of APPEX 2000. Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance. DVD. The Best of the Sundance Composers Labs. Featured composer. Los Angeles: The Sundance Institute 2001. CD. Impressions of Energy – Live at the Knitting Factory. Guitarist (with David Ornette Cherry). New York: Knit Media/BET Productions 2000. Video. Time, Emit Time. Producer and co-composer. Anaheim: BA Records 2000. CD. Music from the 2000 A.S.K. Composer-Playwright Studio. Featured composer. Los Angeles: A.S.K. Theater Projects 2000. CD. Amigo: Sounds/Music(s) for Film. Producer and composer. Anaheim: BA Records 1999. CD.

PUBLICATIONS

“The USA Artists Music Award.” Awards guide and on-line article published by USA Artists (2010) “Improvisation in Music and Life.” Essay published in the Grateful Dead Reader (June 2010). “Paquito D’Rivera: A Teacher’s Guide.” Teacher’s guide and program notes published by the New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts. 2007 “New Orleans Jazz Orchestra: A Teacher’s Guide.” Teacher’s guide and program notes published by the New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts. 2007 "Intervention #1: Musical Openings." Essay published in The Conscious Reader. 10th ed. Shugrue, Michael, Christian Matushek and Mark DiPaolo, eds. New York: Prentice Hall. 2006. "FESTI-Andes and Beyond: Performing Identity in a Trans-Local (New York, New Jersey, Connecticut) Andean Immigrant Community." New York: Ford Foundation/Asia Society. (2007) “The Upside Down Boy. “ Original music score to young person’s opera. New York: Boosey & Hawkes. 2007 “Andean Music and Dance: A Teacher’s Guide.” Teacher’s guide and program notes published by the New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts. 2005 “Musical New York/Nueva York: Localizing El Taller Latinoamericano.” Proceedings from IASPM-LA (2004) conference, Rio de Janeiro: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. June 21-25, 2004.

!12 Cristian Amigo curriculum vitae ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

“In the Moment Creativity in the Performances of Miles Davis.” Lecture presented at Bates College. Department of Music. March 3, 2011. “Recent Music Compositions.” Lecture presented at UCLA. Department of Ethnomusicology, February 5, 2009. “Latinidád in Musical Expression.” Lecture presented at University of San Francisco. Department of Music. February 3, 2009. “Free Improvisation.” Lecture presented at Department of Philosophy, CSU Stanislaus. February 1, 2009. “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Lecture presented at CSU Dominguez Hills. Department of Music. February 5, 2008. “Ethnomusicology and Music Composition.” Lecture presented at UC Riverside. Department of Music. February 5, 2008. “Elements of Songwriting for Writers and Poets ” Lecture presented at UC Riverside. Chicano Studies Department. February 4, 2008. “What is Latin American Music?” Lecture presented at New York University. Latino Studies Program, December 10, 2007. “Latino (a) and/or Latin American Music?” Lecture presented at New York University. Department of Anthropology (Dr. Renato Rosaldo), September 22, 2005. “The Maestro Carlos Hayre: Repetition and Difference in the New York Performance Context.” Lecture presented at University of Michigan Department of Music, June 18, 2004. “Afro-Peruvian Music and Tradition.” Lecture presented at Trinity College (Hartford) Department of Music. March 2, 2004 “The Education of the Arts and the Artist's Education: Observations from the Field.” Keynote Lecture presented at Changing Perceptions: Senior Honors Conference, CSU Stanislaus, May 4, 2002. “The Archeology of Memory: Music, Aesthetics, Terror, and Survival in the Chilean Case.” Paper presented at SEM/Detroit, November 2001. “Quique Cruz: Remembering/composing Villa Grimaldi.” Paper presented at “Crossing Boundaries IX” conference, SUNY/Binghamton, March 2001. “Latin American Musicians: Resistance and Accommodation to the American Category of Latino.” Paper presented at Toronto 2000/SEM, November 2000. “Women in the American Music of the 20th Century.” Paper and sound exhibit presented at “Thinking Gender” conference, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, March 2000 “The Electric Guitar as Oral Tradition.” Lecture-demonstration presented at APPEX 2000/ UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance, August 2000. “Women in American Music.” Lecture presented at Heart Project, Los Angeles, December 1999 “Composition and Rhythm.” Lecture presented at the Music Center of Los Angeles Education Institute, June 1999. “Music of Pre-conquest Spain” and “Music in the Conversion of the Aztecs.” Lectures presented in Music of Mexico and the Caribbean/UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology. April 1999. “Reflections on Contemporary Chilean Music Scholarship and the Relationship Between North American and Latin American Scholarship.” Paper presented at “Music Scholarship in the 21st Century” conference, UCLA, October, 1999. “Chilean Representations of Chilean Popular Music on the WWW.” Paper presented at “Musical Cultures of Latin America: Global Effects, Past and Present” conference, UCLA, May 1999. “Bjork: Production Practices in 'Dobie Rub Part One-Sunshine Mix' of 'Miss You.'” Paper presented at IASPM-US, UCLA, October 17, 1998. “Miles Davis’ Jazz Trajectory.” Lecture presented in UCLA Department of English, June 1998.

!13 Cristian Amigo curriculum vitae OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE

Music Instructor, Jamaica Center For Arts & Learning 1/12 to present Instructor. Class and private guitar and music theory.

Composer-in-Residence, INTAR Theater 1/11 to present Responsible for all music programming and production @ INTAR including regular season theatrical production. Music specific programs include New Music Tuesday series (2011 -), The Roots & New Music Festival (2012-), Conjure Collective Tuesday Night Concerts (2013-).

New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). Music Composition Advisor 2005- 2008 Member of Art Advisory Committee. Oversaw music panels, recommended panelists, redesign of application process, guidelines, and philosophy. Lead producer on 25 Years of New York New Music (Innova Recordings 2010), a 5-CD anthology of music by selected NYFA composition fellows. Organized the inter-organizational effort between NYFA, NYSCA, Innova, and the NEA.

Independent Music Producer 1/89 to present Music producer on recording sessions (Theatre, Dance, TV, film, radio) includes the aesthetic and technical realization of music as well as interfacing with musicians, technical staff, and clients. Past clients include Toyota, Yamaha, Oscar Mayer, Kraft, J.C. Penney, Saatchi & Saatchi, and the California Department of Health Services OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE (Cont.)

Director, Jazz at the Wadsworth 7/97 to 7/99 Primary responsibilities included programming the concert seasons at Veterans Wadsworth Theater (97-98) and on the UCLA campus at Schoenberg Hall (98-99).

Development Assistant, Sundance Institute 7/95 to 8/96 Special events coordination (fund raisers, film screenings and premieres, board events, sponsor events) at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival. Artist/management relations with Beck, DEVO, and BMI concert.

Grant-Writer, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department 7/93 to 7/95 Grant-writer in development department (NEA Challenge Grant and California Arts Council Artists-in- Residence program). (L.A. Arts Care-A-Van, Wilshire Neon Corridor, Arts Organization Stabilization Initiative). Production Assistance for Jazz Mentorship Program, Mariachi Plaza, African Marketplace, Thai-Filipino Festival, Historic Writers of the Wilshire Corridor, and Sundays at Four chamber music program (KUSC 91.5) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

AFFILIATIONS: SEM (Society for Ethnomusicology), BMI, American Anthropological Association, American Composers Forum, American Music Center, ACLU

LANGUAGES: English and Spanish fluency Portuguese: Intermediate reading, writing and speaking competence

!14 Cristian Amigo curriculum vitae