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Cristian Amigo is an American composer, improviser, guitarist, and ethnomusicologist of Chilean birth. His compositional output includes music for the stage and screen, chamber and orchestral music, opera, avant-jazz and rock music, country blues, and art/pop song. His work has been published by Boosey & Hawkes, Concord Music, and independently. He has also recorded solo albums on the innova and BA labels, most recently Kingdom of Jones. He earned a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from UCLA where he focused on the music of South American musician immigrants in the United States. He is currently composer-in-residence at INTAR Theater in New York City, where he runs the NewMusic Tuesdays concert series, and is a visiting scholar in the New York University Latino Studies program. The 2012 edition of The New Grove Dictionary of American Music will contain a 1500-word entry on Amigo and his music.
His awards include the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition and the Van Leir Fellowship from Meet the Composer. His work has also been supported and/or produced by organizations including the Brooklyn Philharmonic, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York City Opera, Jerome Foundation, American Composers Forum, New York State Music Fund, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Danish Arts Council, Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, LAByrinth Theater Company, Boy Scouts of America, José Limón Dance Company, Sundance Institute’s Film Composer Labs, UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance, CSI Foundation, ASK Playwright/Composer Labs, Durfee Foundation, Teatro del Pueblo, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, INTAR, Oslo Elsewhere, and the 24 Hour Plays. His film scores have been featured at the Sundance Film Festival and the Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival in Los Angeles.
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