Igor Santos
Assistant Professor, Music
Academic focus:
Music composition, intermedia art
Current research project:
I just completed a work for percussion ensemble called “marramahata,” commissioned by the Juilliard School and premiered at Lincoln Center. Currently composing on a new intermedia piece for seven musicians, multiple projectors and spatial audio, for a performance at EMPAC. This is a co-commission by EMPAC, the Switch~ Ensemble, with additional support from NewMusicUSA.
Previous positions:
- Visiting Assistant Professor in Music, Pomona College, 2024-25
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 2023
- American Academy of Rome, Rome Prize Fellow, 2022
Academic background:
- Ph.D., Music composition, University of Chicago, 2018
- M.A., Music composition, Eastman School of Music, 2012
- B.A., Music composition and electronic music, University of South Florida, 2009
Last book read:
“Brazil-Maru” (2017) by Karen Tei Yamashita and “Duty Free Art” (2017) by Hito Steyerl
In your own time/when not working:
I enjoy watching films and experimenting with furniture design.
Courses you’re most looking forward to teaching:
My Intermedia Arts seminar, in the spring.
What most excites you about Cornell:
Collaborating with colleagues across disciplines and discovering the music and scholarship of the current graduate students in the music department!
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