ED-I @ Grove and Hyde Street, San Francisco Š2003 by tangledupinblu@hotmail.com

PERSONAL DATA

Permanent Address: P.O. Box 591138, San Francisco, CA 94159-1138, U.S.A
Phone: (415) 386-6909
Email: itzat@earthlink.net
Web: www.paxrecordings.com/ernesto
Born: Salinas, California USA, June 10, 1968

EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts, Music Composition, California Institute of the Arts, 1996
Bachelor of Arts, Creative Studies, College of Creative Studies, UC Santa Barbara, 1994

POSITIONS

2002 -- Grant panelist for the Headlands' Artists-In-Residence (AIR) Program
2001-present -- Committee member of the SFalt Festival
2000-2004 -- Curator of Creative Music Thursdays, Luggage Store Gallery
1999-present -- Curator of the Big Sur Experimental Music Festival, Big Sur, California USA
1999 -- Grant panelist for the Villa Montalvo Artist Residency Program
1997-present -- label owner of Pax Recordings San Francisco, California USA
1997-2000 -- Professional Artists in the Schools, Cultural Council for Monterey County
1996-2000 -- Member of the Cultural Council for Monterey County
1994 -- Taught a seminar in improvisation and popular culture at CCS UCSB
1989-present -- Private teaching of music composition

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

1999 -- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Young Composers Workshop, New York, New York
1998 -- Artist-in-Residence at Dorland Mountain Arts Colony in Temecula, California
1998 -- Artist-in-Residence at The Ucross Foundation in Ucross, Wyoming
1998 -- Artist-in-Residence at The VCCA in Sweet Briar, Virginia
1997 -- Artist-in-Residence at New York Mills Arts Retreat in New York Mills, Minnesota
1997 -- Artist-in-Residence at Villa Montalvo in Saratoga, California
1997 -- Arts Initiative Grant, Cultural Council for Monterey County
1997 -- Artist-in-Residence at Centrum in Port Townsend, Washington
1996 -- Artist-in-Residence at The Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, New York
1996 -- Composer-in-Residence at C.I.R.M. in Nice, France

SELECTION OF PERFORMANCES

Solus, for solo percussion
2000 Gustavo Aguilar, San Francisco CA
Luggage Store Art Gallery Creative Music Series

à-oikos, for soprano, flute and piano
2000 , New Directions, St. Petersburg, FL
Tampa Bay Composer's Forum New Directions 1999-2000 Concert Series, Palladium Theater

I/O, for chamber ensemble
2000 Caifornia EAR UNIT, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Leo S. Bing Theatre

Solus, for solo alto flute
1999 Chelsea Czuchra, Carmel CA
Martin Laborde Art Gallery

Doucai, for chamber ensemble
1999 ensemble GREEN, Los Angeles, CA
California State University (State Playhouse), Los Angeles

Music in Four Parts, Oasis, and Densities, for string quartet
1997 Monterey String Quartet, Monterey CA
Monterey Peninsula College Music Hall

Sinfonia Pax, for full concert band
1997 Hartnell College Community Band, Salinas, CA
Hartnell Community College Main Stage

Líneas y Cubos: Las Estructuras de los Sueños, for chamber orchestra
1996 CalArts' New Century Players, Valencia, CA
California Institute of the Arts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall

Rompeàtomos, for guitar duo
1995 It's About Time Guitar Duo (Paul Rosandich and Steven Cade), Santa Barbara, CA
UC Santa Barbara, Karl Geiringer Hall

Los Arboles Y El Viento, for oboe and piano
1995 Susan Barrett & David Burge, San Diego, CA
The Athenaeum Library

BIOGRAPHY

ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE--guitarist/composer
lives and works in San Francisco, California USA
Ernesto Diaz-Infante, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser is an active member of the vital San Francisco experimental music scene. Born in Salinas, California, Diaz-Infante's early musical life began with private piano lessons and in high school jazz, marching and concert bands, garage rock bands and Mexican conjunto/pop bands. In his teens, he became immersed in writing poetry, drawing, playing synthesizer and guitar, and lo-fi 4-track recording of songs. He received his formal musical education from the University of California Santa Barbara College of Creative Studies (1992-94) and California Institute of the Arts (1994-96), where he studied a variety of music, composition, electronic music, film music, Gamelan, modern dance, and performance art. Diaz-Infante has composed contemporary chamber music for solo, ensemble and orchestra. He has been awarded residencies at the Centre International de Recherche Musicale (CIRM), the Villa Arson (both in Nice, France), The Millay Colony for the Arts, Centrum, Villa Montalvo, The New York Mills Arts Retreat, The Ucross Foundation and Dorland Mountain Arts Colony. He has recorded more than 15 CDs of music, collaborated with numerous musicans, and he has had performances and radio broadcasts all over the world.

SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY

ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE/CHRIS FORSYTH - 'march' - PR90256
REV.99 - Everything Changed After 7-11 - PR90255
RUDIS/CUSTODIO/DIAZ-INFANTE - Crashing The Russian Renaissance - PR90253
FOCUS QUINTET - 1-8 in 1 - Sachimay Records 016
THE ABSTRACTIONS - Sonic Conspiracy - EDT4012
ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE & BOB MARSH - Rags and Stones - Public Eyesore (pit 49)
ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE - "s/t" - Seagull 014
ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE - solo guitar - Artship Disc 31
ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE - solo field recordings - oTo T45
ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE & CHRIS FORSYTH - Wires & Wooden Boxes - PR90252
REV 99 - Turn A Deaf Ear - PR90251
JEFF KASIER & ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE - Pith Balls... - pfMENTUM 005
WOO REVELATOR/DIAZ-INFANTE/HARMAN - First Time - Sweet 007
BRET HART & ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE - Duets Volume 2 - InstrumenTales
ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE & AIOI USUI - Untitled #1 - Staalplaat OC 091
ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE - Solus - PR90250
ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE - Ucross Journal - PR90249
ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE - Tepeu - PR90247
ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE - Itz'at - PR90245
ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE & CHRIS FORSYTH - Left & Right - PR90227/BF04
ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE & ROTCOD ZZAJ - Sirius Intrigues - ZP #40

CATALOGUE OF WORKS, 1992-2002

[01.01.02] (2002)
tenor voice, woodwinds, brass, percussion, and string trio
50 pages, outsider art influenced notated music, spontaneous ink drawings and words

[10.01.01] (2001)
soprano voice, woodwinds, brass, percussion, and string trio
90 pages, outsider art influenced notated music, spontaneous ink drawings and words

[07.01.01] (2001)
soprano voices, woodwinds, brass, percussion, and string trio
90 pages, outsider art influenced notated music, spontaneous ink drawings and words

[04.01.01] (2001)
bass voice, woodwinds, brass, percussion, and string trio
90 pages, outsider art influenced notated music, spontaneous ink drawings and words

[01.01.01] (2001)
bass voice, woodwinds, brass, percussion, and string trio
90 pages, outsider art influenced notated music, spontaneous ink drawings and words

Glandelinia (2001)
alto/tenor voices, woodwinds, brass, percussion, and string trio
90 pages, outsider art influenced notated music, spontaneous ink drawings and words

Fixus (2000)
mixed chorus and jazz orchestra, 45 pages

Solis Ortis (2000)
voices, woodwinds, brass, percussion, and string trio, 20 pages

New York City Journal (2000)
solo piano, 4 pages

Caelestis Incendium (2000)
voices and small orchestra, 64 pages

Hiatus (2000)
full orchestra, 16 pages

Ferne (2000)
full orchestra, 26 pages

Monterey Journal (2000)
solo piano, 69 pages

Distare (2000)
full orchestra, 84 pages

Solus (2000)
solo percussion, 10'
Gustavo Aguilar, 5/00

I/O (2000)
chamber ensemble, 10'
California Ear Unit, 4/00

à-oikos (2000)
soprano, flute and piano, 10'
TBCF, 1/00

For Chorus and Mixed Ensemble (1999)
SATB and mixed ensemble, 153 pages

Solus (1999)
solo alto flute, 10'
Chelsea Czuchra, 7/99

Doucai (1999)
chamber ensemble, 10'
ensemble GREEN, 5/99

Wucai (1999)
alto flute, bass clarinet, violin, double bass and piano, 17 pages

Shen (1999)
soprano voice, woodwinds, and string quartet, 20 pages

Nepenthe (1999)
percussion and piano, 15 pages

Cypress Point (1999)
bass saxophone and piano, 15 pages

Andrew Molera (1999)
bass clarinet and piano, 15 pages

For De Zonen Von Orm (1999)
flute, bass clarinet, and piano, 15 pages

Garrapata (1999)
tenor trombone and piano, 15 pages

Point Sur (1999)
tenor saxophone and piano, 15 pages

Point Lobos (1999)
alto flute and piano, 15 pages

The Lone Cypress (1999)
guitar and piano, 12 pages

Diaz-Infante: Improvisation No. 1-174 (1996-1998)
structured improvisations on a picture music score (drawings), 174 pages

Ucross Journal (1998)
solo piano, 70'
recorded, 9/98

For Wyoming (1998)
large orchestra, 25 pages

For Wyoming: Trio Compositions (1998)
mixed woodwinds, guitar, and piano, 39 pages

For Tsegi (1998)
clarinet, saxophone, and piano, 13 pages

note: chamber music compositions and artwork from 1992-1997 destroyed on September 21, 2002. This is a brief listing of chamber compositions of Ernesto Diaz-Infante published by Itz'at Musica.

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