Alejandro Acierto

Alejandro T. Acierto is a clarinetist, composer and multimedia artist whose innovative work in contemporary music, performance art and installation has led Time-Out New York to call him a “maverick” of new music. He is a performer of international reach who has played throughout the US and Europe and is a founding member of ensemble dal niente. He also performs with the New York-based mixed quartet loadbang and composer/performer collective thingNY. He has appeared as a guest with the International Contemporary Ensemble, Wet Ink Ensemble, and CUBE, and has worked alongside sopranos Tony Arnold and Lucy Shelton. Acierto has also performed internationally in several festivals such as the Darmstadt Summer Course in Germany where he was awarded a Kranischteiner Stipiendiem Preise, the International Ensemble Modern Academy Festival in Schwatz, Austria, Bang on a Can Summer Festival in North Adams, Massachussetts, and the Sonic Impact Festival in Chicago.

As a composer and multimedia artist focusing on sound and installation, Acierto's work draws from historical narratives and theories within critical race and ethnic studies, as well as critical pedagogy and radical politics. Employing a vast array of media including music, sound, performance art, and sculptural-based installation, his works have been presented by the International Contemporary Ensemble, ThingNY, and Loadbang and shown at the Arts in Bushwick SITEFEST (Brooklyn, NY), Bluestockings Bookstore (New York, NY) and by Trifecta Publishing for their premiere art box edition. Future exhibitions and performances include a site-specific work for bathrooms to be presented at Bluestockings Bookstore, his first solo exhibition show at Marwen in Chicago, the full series premiere of his stolen synthesis series at the Wulf in LA,and a commission by Vox Humana to be performed in Montreal.

Acierto has attended residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Banff Centre in Canada, and High Concept Laboratories in Chicagom and is a member of the Asian American Arts Alliance. He holds a Masters’ degree in Contemporary Performance from Manhattan School of Music and received his Bachelors’ degree in clarinet performance and composition with a minor in Asian American Studies from DePaul University. His principal teachers include David Krakauer, John B. Yeh, Julie DeRoche, Wagner Campos and composers Reiko Fueting, Kurt Westerberg and Juan Campoverde.

To find out more about his upcoming performances and work, please visit www.alejandroacierto.com.

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