Cuestas, Carlos

Carlos Cuestas

Carlos Cuestas is an active musician and scholar based in New York City. He has performed in the United States, Mexico, Colombia, and Ireland as a soloist and in chamber, orchestral, and traditional music ensembles. Carlos has participated in numerous early music projects including

opera and oratorio productions in New York City, New Jersey, Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle, and San Francisco. His performance practice interests extend to the eighteenth and nineteenth century guitar repertoire and the art of improvisation in the style of the early Romantic period. As a scholar, Carlos researches the centuries-old son jarocho tradition from Veracruz, Mexico, playing a consort of traditional instruments, and was a member of the New York City ensemble Radio Jarocho. Carlos, a Colombian national, is a PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology at the City University of New York, The Graduate Center researching the intersection of activism between youth collectives and son jarocho practice in Veracruz and Chicago