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Estelí Gomez
Estelí Gomez (born December 28, 1985) is an American singer. She is a multiple Grammy Award winning musician. In addition to her solo touring and recording career, Gomez is a founding member of Roomful of Teeth, recipients of the 2013 Grammy for "Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance",[1] and they also performed at the 2014 ceremony. Roomful of Teeth was nominated again in 2015 for the album, Render.[2] Gomez received her second Grammy in 2017 for collaborating on the opening track of Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble's Sing Me Home, which won in the category of "Best World Music Album"[3] along with fellow Roomful of Teeth members, Caroline Shaw, Cameron Beauchamp and Virginia Warnken Kelsey.[4] She received her third Grammy for "Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance" in 2024 due to her collaboration on Roomful of Teeth's record Rough Magic.[5] BiographyGomez was born in Watsonville, California.[6] She received her undergraduate degree from Yale,[7] and a masters from McGill, where she studied with Sanford Sylvan.[8] She first gained international acclaim in 2011 when she received first prize in the Canticum Gaudium International Early Music Vocal Competition in Poznań, Poland.[9] She has been praised for her "clear, bright voice" in The New York Times,[10] and for an "artistry that belies her young years" in the Kansas City Metropolis,[11] and has been a featured performer at the Kennedy Center,[12] the University of Oregon's Music Today Festival,[13] and many other venues and festivals around the world. In 2017, she was the featured soloist for the Seattle Symphony's recording of Nielsen: Symphony No 3, Symphony No 4,[14] and toured with Conspirare as a part of its new major work, Considering Matthew Shepard, for the 2017/2018 season.[15] In February 2018, she returned to Carnegie Hall, performing songs by Philip Glass and arranged by Nico Muhly.[16] In 2019, Gomez joined the faculty of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, as an assistant professor[ambiguous] of voice.[17] In 2024, Gomez co-edited the book Historical Performance and New Music: Aesthetics and Practices, and co-wrote the chapter "Feeding the Flexible Omnivore: Collaborative Systems in A Far Cry and Roomful of Teeth".[18] References
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