6pm Doors/7pm Show

Born in Brazil (1980), 2010 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award Winner Gabriel Santiago is
a Composer/Arranger/ Acoustic and Electric Guitar Player with 14 albums (including CDs
and DVDs) released. 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. 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, being invited to be
the first artist to record with Neve’s first ever line of microphones. Gabriel has been
composing music for a wide variety of ensembles (ranging from Symphony Orchestra to
Chamber ensembles, Big band to Jazz Combos), styles and medias including Film, TV, and
Internet. His music is fresh and carries all of his influences that range from Brazilian Music
to Jazz and Classical Music.
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