Dafnis Prieto / DAFNISON MUSIC

Projects & Honors
Grants & Commissions.

Dafnis Prieto has created the music for several dance projects:
- Un Lugar (Havana 1996)
- A mouth in a sleeping shell (NYC PS 122, Winter 2000)
- Time in Circles (NYC Joyce Soho, Spring 2002)
- Forms and Sounds (NYC Jazz Gallery 2002)
- Puzzle /Rompecabezas (NYC The Kitchen, Fall 2002)
- Music selection of Sang (Danspace Project, Spring 2002)
- Descending Matter (Judson Church, Fall 2002), a work by choreographer Osmany Tellez.
- Since 1996 Dafnis has been collaborating with choreographer Judith Sanchez-Ruiz in interactive dance/music/visual media experimental works that use life improvisation as the central component.
- Music for the film Fighting Illiteracy, by Pedro Arizti and Fernando Casado, (Providing Primary Education in Rural Honduras).
- Music for Dance Piece Citizens and Individuals? by Judith Sanchez Ruiz.
- He composed music for the Grammy Winner Album "The Gathering" by The Caribbean Jazz Project & the Album "Birds of a Feathers"also by the Caribbean Jazz Project.
- Commissioned by the CBC in Toronto Canada to write a piece "On and On" for the True North Brass Quintet / 2004.
- Commissioned by the East Carolina University at Greenville NC to write a piece "Echo Dimensions" for the Meridian Arts Ensemble (Brass Quintet & Percussion) 2005.
- Commissioned by the Painted Bride, Philadelphia, 2005.
- Chamber Music America New Works Award, 2005.
- Dafnis Prieto is a recipient of Meet the Composer's Van Lier Fellowship, 2005.
- Dafnis Prieto it's a Faculty Member in NYU since Sept, 2005.
- Commisioned by the Jazz at Lincoln Center a new work for the AfroLatin Jazz Orchestra. song titled " A song for Chico", 2005.
- Commissioned by the New Trumpet Consortium, 2005. a piece for trumpet and percussion "Trail of Memories".
- Commisioned by the Ethos Percussion Group under auspices of the Jerome Foundation "The Guiros Talk" a piece for 4 guiros (1 mov) and 4 percussion sets "Claveteando" (2 mov). 2006.
- Dafnis Prieto Award Winner in the Jazz Journalist Award, Up & coming musician of the year, 2006.
- Dafnis Prieto - Absolute Quintet Grammy Award Nominee for Best Latin Jazz
Album 2006.
- Dafnis Prieto - "Nominee for Best New Artist " Latin Grammy Awards, 2007.
- Commissioned by Meet the Composer, Commissioning Music, 2007