José Elizondo

Elizondo received degrees in Music and Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). At Harvard University, he studied musical analysis, orchestration and conducting. MIT awarded Jose the Gregory Tucker Memorial Prize for Music, and selected him as a Burchard Scholar. His main teachers at MIT and Harvard were professors Peter Child, Edward Cohen, Lowell Lindgren, Bill Cutter, James Yannatos, Constance DeFotis and Jameson Marvin. Elizondo’s technology work focuses on language-related technology that combines his interests in linguistics, computer science and artificial intelligence. As a part time composer, he works with performers around the world to create compositions for orchestra and chamber ensembles.

Jose's symphonic, choral and chamber music is performed frequently. Internationally acclaimed performers of his works include cellists Yo-Yo Ma, Carlos Prieto, Andrei Ionita, Benedict Klöckner, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Guy Johnston, Sébastien Hurtaud, Carol and Sam Ou, Maximilian Hornung, Alvaro Bitrán, Giovanna Buccarella, Germán Prentki, Slatomir Todorov and Robert Deutsch; guitarists Eliot Fisk and Francesco Diodovich; violinists James Buswell, Mikhail Pochekin, Saúl Bitrán and Yury Revich; tenors José Luis Ordoñez and Pablo Pollitzer, as well as flautists Sefika Kutluer, Evangelina Reyes López and Orlando Cela.