Manuel Sosa

                                     

Caracas, Venezuela: wood violin bright natural light cement theory of music legos soccer solfège salsa drawing my siblings baseball gardening Beethoven vibrancy of nature the cuatro then US, Philadelphia and New York: a different dynamism within the same immense piece of land four seasons and music composition, The Juilliard School [bm, mm, dma] incisive teachers: Stephen Albert, Robert Beaser, David Diamond, other inspiring teachers: Joseph Castaldo, Mary A. Cox, Jacob Druckman, Jerry González, Earl Kim, Bruce Saylor, seminars: Mark Andre, Beat Furrer, Georg Friedrich Haas, Karel Husa, Adriana Hölszky, Helmut Lachenmann, one caring mentor: Jacques-Louis Monod, music written for and performed by extraordinary ensembles in this and other lands and blessed by the opportunity of collaborating with embracing and inspiring artists: poets, painters, dancers, musicians, actors, and scholarly articles about art and music in South America presented in Europe and America and published in specialized journals, and day by day work as a composer combined with vitalizing teaching and research…

 

 

Awards:

  • Yaddo Fellowship: The Sundell Residency for Special Assistants (2024, 2019)

  • Yaddo Fellowship: Jane Adams Wait Residency (2014)

  • John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2011)

  • Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship (2009)

  • MacDowell Colony Fellowship (2009, unfulfilled)

  • Yaddo Fellowship (2011, 2004, 2003)

  • Yaddo Fellowship: White Flowers Fellowship for Composers (2007)

  • Meet The Composer / Van Lier Fellowship (2002)

  • C.V. Starr / The Juilliard School Fellowship (1996-1998)

 

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