Carlos Sandoval

Carlos Sandoval

Works for Cello

Ginanatria (1990), for cello solo.

Dos piezas (1995), for cello and “a bit prepared” piano.

Sources

Carlos Sandoval

Mexican composer, born September 6, 1956.

Carlos Sandoval was born in Mexico City, Mexico, in 1956. He attended the Escuela Nacional de Música UNAM, where he studied composition under Antonio Rosadi, and later composition, analysis, and theory with Julio Estrada. He has traveled and worked internationally, earning a second citizenship in Germany and acting as the resident composer at Les Ateliers of the University de Picardie, France as well as the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music in Holland. Sandoval is known for his mixed-media approach to music and composition, combining technology and music to create more of an artistic experience. 

His first German project was “Mextoys” (2003-2004).  This piece constituted a breakthrough in Sandoval’s work: it was his first true “phenomenological” work, his first full multimedia piece, and his first work joining video and music into a single conceptual and constructive layer. This point marked Sandoval’s departure from traditional score writing and deterministic thinking towards developing an experience-oriented cognitive approach to music and a cognitive Piagetian approach to animism towards life in general.

His works have been commissioned or programmed in festivals worldwide, including the Donaueschinger Musiktage (1992 and 2015), the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (2007), and the Klangsuren Schwaz (2016). Currently, he works extensively with Ensemble Mosaik. Recently he has been commissioned by the NDR (DE), the ensamble Mosaik (DE), the American Society (USA), the Siemens Stiftung (DE), the Grazer Kunstverein (AU) and the foundation Alumnos 47 (MX). He was a fellow of the Mexican Sistema Nacional de Creadores from 1999 to 2018.