Gabriel Santiago

Brazilian-born Gabriel Santiago is an award-winning composer, arranger, performer, and music educator. A master of both the acoustic and electric guitar, Santiago has released 14 albums (including CDs & DVDs) and regularly performs solo and accompanied concerts and festivals across the U.S. and around the globe. Filled with passion and culture, his ever-evolving sound represents a dynamic confluence of his classical, jazz and Brazilian roots. Santiago has collaborated with a wide variety of artists, including Esperanza Spalding, Chris Potter, Stefon Harris, John Clayton, Terence Blanchard, Janek Gwizdala, Carmen Bradford, André Mehmari, Romero Lubambo, Odair Assad, Gilson Peranzzetta and Recording Engineer Master Rupert Neve. A prolific and talented composer, Gabriel has composed music for a wide variety of ensembles, ranging from symphony orchestra and chamber ensembles to big band and jazz combos, as well as music for TV and film. Called by JazzTimes Magazine “a young master at both the acoustic and electric guitars” and his compositions defined as “stunners”, Santiago holds a Doctoral Degree in Music Composition from the University of Texas at Austin, where he won the 2013 Outstanding Dissertation Award and the 2010 Eleanor A. Stribling Award for Excellence in Jazz Studies. His solid background also features studies with jazz masters Pat Metheny, Adam Rogers and Maria Schneider. His music is fresh and carries all of his influences that range from Brazilian music to jazz and concert music.

Awards

ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award – ASCAP – New York  (2010)

Outstanding Dissertation Award – University of Texas at Austin (2012-13)

Eleanor A. Stribling Award for Excellence in Jazz Studies  – University of Texas at Austin (2010)

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