曼努埃尔·索萨

曼努埃尔·索萨 is a Venezuelan/American composer, who resides in Brooklyn, New York. He received early training on the violin at the José Ángel Lamas Superior Conservatory in Caracas, while also pursuing his interest in architecture and drawing, both of which still inform his approach to writing music. At sixteen, and seeking to expand his studies in composition, he moved to the U.S. with the certainty that this would be the country where he would live for many decades to come. Latin American culture and pacing, volumetric space and color continue to be essential to his vision, as are the influence of his North American experiences.
 
He is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where he received BM, MM, 和DMA学位, under the guidance of Stephen Albert, 罗伯特比阿斯, 大卫·戴蒙德. He has also studied composition with Joseph Castaldo, 雅各Druckman, 金伯爵, Jacques-Louis Monod, and Bruce Saylor; composition seminars with Mark Andre, 打毛, Georg Friedrich Haas, 卡雷尔Husa, 阿德里亚娜Holszky, Helmut Lachenmann; harmony with Mary A. Cox; conducting with Jacques-Louis Monod; and Afro-Caribbean percussion with Jerry González. His orchestral and chamber music works have been performed in North and South America, 欧洲, 和亚洲, and he has collaborated with painters, 舞者, and sculptors in the creation of multi-media environments. His scholarly work concentrates on the art and music of South America, and his writings have been published in 欧洲 and South America. 

曼努埃尔·索萨 has received fellowships from Meet the Composer (Van Lier, 2002), the Civitella Ranieri Foundation (2009), 约翰·S. Guggenheim Foundation (2011), and he has been a Fellow on several occasions at Yaddo. He teaches 作文 in the 预科 Division of the Juilliard School, and he is a member of the 音乐al Studies faculty at the Curtis Institute of 音乐.