Alejandro Cote
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Web site: http://www.coteguitar.com
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Biography:
Guitarist Alejandro Saladin Cote is quickly establishing himself as an exciting new face in the classical guitar scene. He concertizes regularly throughout the United States and Caribbean with recent engagements at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, the Goethe Institute in New York City, the Yamaha Piano Salon, the Cas di Cultura in Aruba, and La Belle Alliance in Curaçao. He has been a featured performer at the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival, the Madison Chamber Music Festival and the Water Island Music Festival in the Virgin Islands.
An avid performer of contemporary music, Mr. Saladin Cote frequently collaborates with composers and has premiered new works at the Brooklyn Conservatory’s New Music Collective, Turtle Bay Music School and has appeared in a tribute concert to composer Roberto Sierra at the Peabody Conservatory. Upcoming events include the release of his debut CD of Spanish guitar music by Artek Recordings in 2008 as well as numerous solo and chamber music recitals in the US and abroad.
Mr. Saladin Cote has participated in masterclasses with some of the world’s leading musicians such as Manuel Barrueco, David Starobin, Ricardo Iznaola, and Paul O’Dette. He completed his master’s degree at the Manhattan School of Music where he studied with David Leisner and held a merit-scholarship and received his bachelor’s degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Music as a student of Julian Gray. A native of Curaçao, the Netherlands Antilles, Mr. Saladin Cote currently resides in New York City where he is a resident teaching artist at the Bloomingdale School of Music.
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