SERGIO COTE COMPOSER
Sergio's work deals with acoustical phenomena and explorations of the body within the musical performance. Most of his pieces also encompass a relationship between the human body (its movement, its sounds, and placement on stage) with current political issues. His pieces have been performed and commissioned worldwide by ensembles such as International Ensemble Modern Academy (Frankfurt), Neopercusión (Madrid), The [Switch~Ensemble], Ensemble Motocontrario (Trento, Italy), Mise-en Ensemble (NYC), Ensamble Taller Sonoro (Seville), the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia; and featured in Festivals such as Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik (Witten, Germany), Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Darmstadt, Germany), Contemporary Music Days (Bogotá, Colombia), Sacred Music Festival (Madrid, Spain), Mise-en Festivel (NY, USA), Casa tomada (La Habana, Cuba), among others.
Sergio Cote holds a BA from the Javeriana University (Bogota, Colombia) where he studied with Guillermo Gaviria and Carlos Julio Ramirez. In 2015 he completed a Master's in music composition at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), Manchester, UK, under the tutelage of David Horne and Adam Gorb. He has had additional lessons with Pierluigi Billone, Magnus Lindberg, Brian Ferneyhough, and Javier Torres-Maldonado. has been awarded the Colombian National Prize for Young Composers (2011), the Royal Northern College of Music Gold Medal, and the Scholarship to the Creation of Contemporary Music awarded by the Colombian Ministry of Culture in 2014. He is currently enrolled in the DMA in composition at Cornell University studying with Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri and Kevin Ernste.
Sergio Cote holds a BA from the Javeriana University (Bogota, Colombia) where he studied with Guillermo Gaviria and Carlos Julio Ramirez. In 2015 he completed a Master's in music composition at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), Manchester, UK, under the tutelage of David Horne and Adam Gorb. He has had additional lessons with Pierluigi Billone, Magnus Lindberg, Brian Ferneyhough, and Javier Torres-Maldonado. has been awarded the Colombian National Prize for Young Composers (2011), the Royal Northern College of Music Gold Medal, and the Scholarship to the Creation of Contemporary Music awarded by the Colombian Ministry of Culture in 2014. He is currently enrolled in the DMA in composition at Cornell University studying with Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri and Kevin Ernste.
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