- Carlos Miguel Prieto
Carlos Miguel Prieto is a Mexican conductor and violinist known for his dynamism and prolific career in conducting. He became member of the Prieto cuartet when he was a child with his father the cellist
Carlos Prieto . He is graduate from Princeton and Harvard Universities. In the summer of2002 , Prieto conducted theYouth Orchestra of the Americas .Prieto is the founder and director of the Mozart-Haydn festival ofMexico . In July2007 , he was named music director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, was also music director of theXalapa Symphony Orchestra between 2002 and 2007 and with the Mexico Philharmonic from1998 to 2002. The Mexican Union and Theater Critics voted him "Conductor of the year 2002" and in 1998 he received theMozart Medal of Honor presented by the Government of Mexico and the Embassy ofAustria . He has recently made a series of recordings ofLatin American andMexican music for theUrtext label . He is music director of theHuntsville Symphony Orchestra .External links
* http://www.dispeker.com/page/prieto.html
* http://www.lpomusic.com/?q=node/4
* http://huntsville.about.com/library/blank/blpiccarlos.htm
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