About Carlos Simon
"Carlos Simon is a young composer on the rise, with an ear for social justice."
Carlos Simon is a composer, curator and activist. Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, his compositions range from concert music for large and small ensembles to film scores with influences of jazz, gospel, and neo-romanticism. Simon is the Composer-in-Residence for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Latest Album
Requiem for the Enslaved
Carlos' debut album for Decca features a new work for spoken word, ensemble and piano honours the passing of the people bought and sold by university founders during the slave trade years
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Works
“A modern major composer: an artist whose windows are thrown wide open to the world, and whose musical scope of late lands like a grand panorama of American life.”
Schedule
October 13, 2022
Sphinx Virtuosi
Vallia-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras No. 9
Valerie Coleman: Tracing Visions (NY Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
Carlos Simon: Between Worlds
Jessie Montgomery: Divided (NY Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
Xavier Foley: An Ode to Our Times (World Premiere)
Beethoven: Finale from Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47, "Bridgetower" (arr. for string orchestra by Rubén Rengel)