Reviews:

"Coleman is a master of instrumental color...his musical ideas are vivid."  - Mary Ellyn Hutton, Cincinnati Post

"Striking brilliance" -  Belfast Telegraph

"Coleman has a knack for capturing the mood of 21st Century living."  - Janelle Gelfand, The Cincinnati Enquirer

"Joylessly bombastic....Coleman's greatest accomplishment is in the small imaginative details." The Star Ledger

Gilbert Galindo’s compositions offer the listener a kaleidoscope of textures, sounds, challenging harmonies, and crisp and vibrant melodies, providing a rewarding journey from the first notes to the last beat. Many are written for multi-combinations of instruments, solos, duets, trios, small ensembles to full-blown symphonic orchestral music, to the most personally poignant songs for voice and piano. A native of west Texas and having studied composition at Northwestern University and the Cleveland Institute of Music, his music has been heard nationwide and internationally by groups such as Ensemble Dal Niente, the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble, the New Thread Quartet, newEar, Parthenia, among others. He has received recognition and awards from the American Music Center, BMI, Meet The Composer, New Music USA, Northwestern University, and others. His music is available from Cuicatl Publications (BMI) on www.gilbertgalindo.com and his recording of “Almost within reach…” for violoncello and piano can be found on New Focus Recordings. Gilbert Galindo is also a member of Random Access Music, a composer & performer collective based in Queens, New York and is currently working on new instrumental and vocal projects for performances later this year.

Updated February 2017

Composer/guitarist/rapper/Di.J./producer Gene Pritsker has written over 900 compositions, including chamber operas, orchestral and chamber works, electro-acoustic music and songs for hip-hop and rock ensembles. All of his compositions employ an eclectic spectrum of styles and are influenced by his studies of various musical cultures.
	He is the founder and leader of Sound Liberation; an eclectic hip hop-chamber-jazz-rock-etc. ensemble and co-director of Composers' Concordance. Gene's music has been performed all over the world at various festivals and by many ensembles and performers, including the Absolute Ensemble, Adelaide Symphony, MDR Symphony, The Athens Camarata, China Philharmonic Orchestra, Brooklyn, Shanghai and Berlin Philharmonic, Sinfonietta Riga, Orchester des Pfalztheaters, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Anhaltische Philharmonie, ensembleKONTRASTE as well as such soloists as Anne Akiko Meyers, Lara St. John, Kathleen Supove, Sarah Chang, Martin Kuuskmann, Tim Fain, Borislav Strulev and Simone Dinnerstein. He has worked closely with Joe Zawinul and has orchestrated major Hollywood movies, Including 'Cloud Atlas', for which he wrote additional music and composed his ''Cloud Atlas Symphony’.
	The New York Times described him as "...audacious...multitalented." Joseph Pehrson, writing in The Music Connoisseur, described Pritsker as "dissolving the artificial boundaries between high brow, low brow, classical, popular musics and elevates the idea that if it's done well it is great music, regardless of the style or genre". Classical Music Sentinel writes:  "His expressive reach is so wide as to encompass everything from ethno/techno, rock/jazz fusion, classical opera and more, and it all seems to be effortlessly integrated within his anima and comes out through different facets of his persona. You could almost see him as a modern day renaissance man.” 
	Raul DaGma writes in his article ‘Gene Pritsker: Varieties Of Musical Experience’: "Gene Pritsker is a modernist at heart. If there is something new to be said to describe an old form or even a formless old thing – as old as yesterday, that is – this extraordinary musician will be among the first to say it…All of his music is of the highest quality, audacious and witty, joyous and elevated, and incomparable to anything written and recorded. In all of this Gene Pritsker has created a singular vocabulary, spoken not only by someone deeply schooled in music, but also in history, theology and philosophy."
	Organizations he is associated with include:  Co-director of Composers Concordance & Composers Concordance Records, co-founder/guitarist of Absolute Ensemble and artist-in residence at the Austrian Outreach Festival. Gene Pritsker's music is published by: Falls House Press, Gold Branch Music, Periferia Sheet Music & Calabrese Brothers music. Recorded on: Col Legno, Enja, Eutrepe, Wergo, Innova , Composers' Concordance Records, SONY Classical, and Capstone record labels.

Compositor, pianista y tecladista costarricense. Graduado en Composición musical por la Universidad de Costa Rica bajo la tutela de los maestros Carlos Castro y Carlos Escalante. Como proyecto final; presentó la obra “Desierto profundo (1era parte)” para coro, cantantes solistas, narradora y ensamble de cámara. Para esta obra en diez movimientos desarrolló no solo la música, también todo el texto y la producción artística. 
     Ganador del Primer Concurso de Composición de Música Contemporánea Latinoamericana por la obra “Reactivar” para ensamble Pierrot, contrabajo y batería. Única obra seleccionada de Costa Rica entre participantes de Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras y Guatemala.  
	En 2017 es aceptado como estudiante de intercambio en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, estudiando Composición musical con Alejandro Guarello y Música electroacústica con Antonio Carvallo.
        En el 2015 concluye el programa preuniversitario de piano (Etapa básica) en la Universidad de Costa Rica con la instrucción del Dr. Fernando Zúñiga, la maestra Pilar Aguilar y la maestra Tanya Cordero. 
	Ha recibido clases maestras de piano con Leonardo Gell (Cuba), Sara Feterman (Costa Rica - Cuba), Darío Alejandro Ntaca (Argentina), Wong Yong Lee (Corea), Dorian Leljak (Serbia), Mario Mariani (Italia) y  de Composición musical  con Jean Yves Bosseur (Francia), Alicia Terzian (Argentina), Leonardo Coral (México), Don Freund, Charles Gran, Carlos Rafael Rivera y Dorian Wallace (Estados Unidos).


    Su música ha sido interpretada en diferentes escenarios de Costa Rica y México.

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