Carlos Prieto (Cellist)

Carlos Prieto ( born 1937 in Mexico City) is a Mexican cellist.

Prieto had four years of age cello lessons. His teacher was Imre Hartman, later he studied with Pierre Fournier in Geneva and with Leonard Rose in New York. In addition, 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 premieres of more than fifty works, many of which were dedicated to him by composers such as Joaquin Rodrigo, Manuel Castillo, Tomas Marco and Robert X. Rodriguez. During the celebrations of the 300th birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach, he joined with his cello suites, inter alia, 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 United States through his music. 1995 awarded him the Austrian ambassador in Mexico, the Mozart Medal. In the same year he became head of the foundation of the Conservatory of Las Rosas. He was appointed Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1999.

The University of Indiana honored him with the Eva Janzer Award and the Yale University with the Cultural Leadership Citation. In 2004 he became a member of the Fine Arts Advisory Council of the University of Texas, and in 2006 awarded him the King of Spain the Spanish Civil Merit. The Conservatorio de las Rosas and the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes de México organized every three years the Concurso Internacional de Violonchelo Carlos Prieto.

Prieto has recorded more than eighty works on CD, including the Cello Suites by Bach, works by Shostakovich, Saint- Saëns, Boccherini, Fauré, Tchaikovsky, Kodaly, Bruch, Martinů and an eleven-part series with compositions of 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 Sinfónica de Xalapa with the Orquesta
• Del Barroco y del siglo XXI Romanticismo al Edison Quintana, Juan Luis Prieto, Juan Hermida
• Sonatas y Danzas de Mexico, works by Manuel María Ponce, Alfonso de Elias, 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 Diem corner
• Carlos Prieto, cello, works by Kodaly and Shostakovich with the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra conducted by Luis Herrera de la Fuente and Max Bruch Kol Nidre with The National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico under Enrique Diem corner
• J. S. Bach: The Suites for Cello. No Suites. 1, 2 and 3
• Sonatas & Fantasias by Robert Gerhard, Alberto Ginastera, Samuel Zyman, Gaspar Cassadó, Joaquin Rodrigo, Astor Piazzolla, with Edison Quintana
• Azul y Verde of 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

Writings

• Las aventuras de un violonchelo. Autobiography. Fondo De Cultura Economica 1998, ISBN 9,681,661,478th English edition: The adventures of a cello. University of Texas Press, Austin, 2006, ISBN 0-292-71322-3. ( Content)