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Martin Loyato
Martín Loyato is an Argentinean-American composer, multi-instrumentalist, improviser, poet, conductor, educator, and visual artist. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His diverse artistic and educational background includes early studies at the Conservatory Superior of Music in Buenos Aires, a B.F.A. in Composition and Trumpet Performance at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), and a Masters and Ph.D. in Composition at The State University of New York, Stony Brook.
He studied trumpet with Arturo Sandoval, Edward Carroll, Eric Aubier, Howie Shear, Bill Bing, Gabriel Archilla, and Osvaldo Lacunza and has studied with composers such as Evi Giangrante, Stephen Lucky Mosko, Anne Lebaron, Wadada Leo Smith, Ivo Medek, Bunita Marcus, Peter Winkler, Daria Semegen, and Sheila Silver.
As a trumpet player, Dr. Loyato has collaborated with notable artists, including Arturo Sandoval, Poncho Sanchez, Yusef Lateef, Ray Anderson, and Bright Dog Red among others. His diverse collaborations also extend to international artists such as Ziyad Sahhab, Hisham Hallak, Mike Massy, Arnabeat and the iconic Lebanese composer and writer Ziad Rahbani; notably, Martín was invited to perform at the First Latin Grammys in 2000.
In 2003, Dr. Loyato rehearsed and conducted Pierre Boulez's piece "Sur Incises" six months before Boulez's arrival to perform the work for the Ojai Music Festival in California. He has performed with and composed numerous orchestras worldwide, including concert works for electro-acoustic, dance, theater, choral, musicals, orchestra, chamber ensembles, and music for television features and advertisements.
In addition to receiving several awards for his compositions, Martín has had the opportunity to work on private commissions from Europe, Oceania, Asia, and both North and South America. One of his notable projects includes writing a children's musical called En el Fondo de Mar, which aimed to benefit underprivileged children in Buenos Aires. He has also participated in various prestigious events, such as an international performance and composition workshop for percussion at the Janacek Academy in the Czech Republic and a performance workshop that included his string quartet Allí Buenos Aires, conducted by the renowned Penderecki Quartet. Another notable achievement was the premiere of his multi-media piece, Celestial Spheres, at CalArts in 2005, later published in Notations 21, an anthology of innovative musical notation by Theresa Sauer. Recently, his work has been featured in a book published in Spain titled Partituras graficas y graficos musicales circulares en el Arte Contemporaneo (1950-2010) (Circular Graphic Scores: Between Time and Space) by Spanish musician and visual artist Marina Buj. Additionally, he has been cited as a composer in the book Play for Health Across the Lifespan by Alison Tonkin and Julia Whitaker, published by Routledge Publishers, Taylor & Francis, UK. His poetry books, Helechos del Alma by Editorial Biebel and K-ro - Poetic Suite of Six Petals - Limited Edition - by Editorial Sinestesia, were also published in Argentina.
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Martin Loyato: Involution

by Geno Thackara
Have you ever wondered what directions Miles Davis might have taken if he hadn't retired from his electric fusion period in mid-1975? Perhaps he could have shifted his influences even farther east, traded the odd cocaine binge for an opium habit, and gradually replaced all the heavily layered African rhythms with some more minimalist drones out of the middle East. We can never know for sure how it would have sounded, but decades removed in time and technology, Involution takes ...
Continue ReadingMartin Loyato has rapidly been gaining critical recognition as one of the leaders of the new movement creative-contemporary free world music, as he likes to call it. Scholars and reviewers had said that his music is beautiful, exiting and contemporary; Martin can do some amazing things and he is always willing to experiment and explore. His take-no-prisoners approach to incorporating the latest electronic manipulations with a deep jazz sensibility sets the standard for future forays into this fertile musical amalgam. His ensemble somehow manage to sound absolutely up-to-date while still retaining a recognizable jazz feeling
Primary Instrument
Trumpet
Willing to teach
Beginner to advanced
Credentials/Background
Assistant Professor at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon
Clinic/Workshop Information
The Art of Improvisation,
Music and Globalization History
Evolution of Electroacoustic Music in Latin America
Creative Thinking