Medal Dr. Alfonso Ortiz Tirado 2007

Carlos Prieto was born in Mexico City. At the age of four he began studying cello. His teacher was the Hungarian cellist Imre Hartman, after that he studied with Pierre Fournier in Geneva and with Leonard Rose in New York. 

He has played with orchestras from London, Berlin, Spain, Moscow, San Petersburg, Ireland, Buenos Aires and many more. Enthusiastic and unanimous comments have been said on his several tours for Europe, United States, Russia and the former republics of the Soviet Union, Canada, China, India and Latin America.  

The New York Times published an enthusiastic comment about his debut at the Carnegie Hall grading his performance as “cellist who doesn’t know about techniques limitations and with perfect musical instincts”. Carlos Prieto has enriched the cello repertoire exceptionally. Since 1980 he has played the world premieres of about 80 musical pieces, most of them devoted to him, of the main composers of Mexico, Ibero America, Spain and other countries

Carlos Prieto has recorded more than 80 pieces and has written six books. In addition to his musical education, he has professional titles in Engineering and Economics from the Massachusetts Technical Institute; institution that named him member of their Advisory Council of Music and Theatre.