Gilbert Galindo is a composer, conductor, and educator residing in New York City. He received a B.M. in music composition and outreach and education in music in 2004 from Northwestern University and a M.M. in music composition from the Cleveland Institute of Music in 2006.
His works have been performed by the Midland Odessa Symphony, Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra, Bard College Composers Orchestra, the Chicago Fine Arts Music Society, in Berlin and across the U.S. He has received commissions from pianist Tatsuya Nagashima, Duo Petrarca and the Lone Star Brass Quintet.
Galindo's orchestra work Awakening-Inevitable recently won a BMI Student Composer Award in Spring 2006 and was premiered by the Northwestern Symphony Orchestra in 2005. He also won first place in the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs 2006 Young Composers Contest with Two Nahuatl Songs, is the 2004 winner of the Cacavas Award for an outstanding composition for chamber ensemble (Venus Crossing) from Northwestern University, an award winner of the Chicago Union League Civic & Arts Foundation 2003 Music Composition Contest (Nightly Wanderings), as an undergraduate at Northwestern in 2002, his work Fantasies and Chromatic Dreams was chosen for Northwestern University's William T. Faricy Award for Creative Music, and in 2000 he won the John Maddy Award in Composition at Interlochen.
He has studied composition with Sam Adler, Margaret Brouwer, Donald Freund, William Karlins, Zhou Long, Augusta Read Thomas, Amnon Wolman and Jay Alan Yim. In the summer of 2005, Mr. Galindo was invited to attend the Freie Universit?t International Summer University Composition Course in Berlin, Germany taught by Samuel Adler. He has also been invited to attend the Bard Conductor's Institute both as a conducting fellow and as a composer. Other summer programs attended include the Brevard Music Festival.
In conducting he has studied with Harold Farbermann, Eduardo Navega, Stephen Alltop, and John Lynch, and has conducted the Bard Institute Orchestra, Northwestern University Contemporary Music Ensemble, the Bard Composer's Chamber Orchestra, the University of Texas at the Permian Basin Commencement Orchestra, and various ad-hoc chamber groups. He has also conducted along side internationally known pipa player, Min Xiao-Fen and soprano Lucy Shelton as the conductor of the CIM New Music Ensemble.
Mr. Galindo also taught composition and theory through the CIM Preparatory Division, various musical subjects through the CIM Distance Learning Program, a five-week composition course as teaching artist at the Chicago Choir Academy and served as the composition assistant at the National High School Music Institute summer program in 2003. His main educational interest is expanding the awareness and exposure of classical music, in particular contemporary art music, to the audience and public at large. Gilbert Galindo is also a founding member of EXPOSURE-musicians for new music, a new music organization based at Northwestern. He is currently a teaching artist for Education Through Music, Inc. in New York.
Last updated: 03.01.07
