Carlos Patiño

Composer • Guitarist • Producer

Music shaped by landscape, memory, nature, and place.

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About Carlos Patiño

Carlos Patiño is a Colombian composer, guitarist, producer, and educator whose work brings together contemporary composition, Latin American musical memory, experimental guitar, environmental sound, and audiovisual storytelling.Across concert works, recordings, performances, and long-form projects, his music explores how sound can carry landscape, identity, ecology, memory, and reflection. His practice moves between the stage, studio, classroom, and natural world, connecting artistic research with an accessible and deeply personal musical language.

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Solistas: Instrumentos de Cuerda Pulsada I

A published album and book exploring Latin American music for guitar, cuatro, and tiple.

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How Dare You! mov II.

An interdisciplinary musical narrative connecting composition, environmental research, image, and climate awareness.

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Current and selected projects exploring guitar, ecology, Latin American musical memory, song, and interdisciplinary sound.

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A cinematic solo guitar project exploring alternate tunings, prepared guitar, slide, drones, modal language, and ritual repetition.The music moves between intimacy and landscape, using one guitar as a space for texture, melody, rhythm, memory, and atmospheric storytelling.

IN DEVELOPMENT · CINEMATIC SOLO GUITAR PIECES

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Short pieces, live videos, and an upcoming collection of cinematic solo guitar works.

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Solistas: Instrumentos de Cuerda Pulsada I

A published album and book project centered on contemporary music for plucked string instruments.Solistas explores the expressive world of plucked strings through new concert works, Latin American instrumental memory, and the relationship between written composition, performance, and tradition.

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Open Air Guitar

Original Guitar Sessions in Nature

A long-form video project combining nylon guitar, natural landscapes, and environmental sound.Created for focus, rest, meditation, prayer, and contemplative listening, these videos offer slow musical spaces shaped by place, atmosphere, and quiet repetition.

ONGOING · LONG-FORM OUTDOOR GUITAR SESSIONS

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Long-form original guitar sessions recorded outdoors with the natural ambience of each landscape.

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Ecology, Sound & Memory

A body of works connecting composition, ecology, climate anxiety, environmental sound, and audiovisual art.These works move between concert music, song, multimedia, and sound-based pieces shaped by endangered ecosystems, environmental memory, and the relationship between human life and the natural world.

ONGOING · ENVIRONMENTAL WORKS

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How Dare You!, Would You Help Me?, Tortuga Lora, Coral, Water, and Cetacean Counterpoint.

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Songs, Roots & Social Memory

A collection of songs and instrumental works connected to Colombian rhythm, social memory, migration, and personal belonging.These pieces move between cumbia, salsa, jazz, folk-inspired writing, and song-based forms, carrying stories of place, memory, corruption, and community.

ONGOING SONGS · ROOTS · SOCIAL MEMORY

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Ladrones de Corbata · If Something Feels Like Home · Barullos

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Credits, Performance & Press

Selected recording, production, performance, publication, award, and press credits across contemporary, classical, Latin American, and interdisciplinary music.

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Full Biography

Carlos Patiño is a Colombian composer, guitarist, producer, performer, scholar, and music educator whose work moves between contemporary composition, cinematic guitar music, Latin American roots, environmental sound, audiovisual art, and music production.He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Music Theory and Composition from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, and a Master of Music with an emphasis in Commercial Music Composition from Florida Atlantic University. He completed his graduate studies with full scholarship support, including recognitions such as the Florida Atlantic University Graduate Fellowship, the FAU Provost Fellowship, and the FAU Ambassador of the Arts Award.Patiño has worked in the recording industry as a co-producer, post-producer, assistant audio engineer, assistant mix engineer, and audio editor on projects connected to classical, contemporary, Latin American, and popular music. His credits include the Latin Grammy-nominated album Pá Qué Más by Quinteto Leopoldo Federico; Astor Piazzolla: Legacy by Tomás Cotik and Tao Lin, released by Naxos and nominated for the 2018 International Classical Music Awards; Telemann: 12 Fantasias for Solo Violin, released by Centaur Records and winner of a Silver Medal at the 2022 Global Music Awards; J.S. Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, released by Centaur Records; J.S. Bach: The Six Cello Suites, arr. for violin, winner of a Silver Medal at the 2024 Global Music Awards; and Piazzolla: Buenos Aires, released by Naxos, winner of a Silver Medal at the 2024 Global Music Awards, and nominated for the 2025 International Classical Music Awards.As an author and composer, Patiño created Solistas: Instrumentos de Cuerda Pulsada I, a published book and album project dedicated to contemporary music for plucked string instruments, including works for solo guitar, cuatro, and tiple. The book was published by Editorial Javeriana in Colombia, and the album was released by Hoot/Wisdom Recordings in Boca Raton, Florida. He is also the author, composer, and researcher behind How Dare You!: A Musical Narrative of Global Warming Problems and Solutions, a large-scale interdisciplinary work and dissertation published through ProQuest and the University of Miami.His work as a scholar also includes music analysis and research on twentieth-century and contemporary music. His article on György Ligeti’s Lux Aeterna was published by Rialta Magazine in Mexico.His artistic practice often engages with ecology, memory, landscape, identity, and the relationship between sound and the natural world. He received the Miami Individual Artist Grant in 2022 and 2023 from the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs. As part of the multidisciplinary artist collective UMMTI, his work has been included in international art projects in Brazil and Colombia.As a performer, Patiño has worked as a guitarist and bassist across concert, experimental, and popular music contexts. He was a member of the Colombian rock band Red O’Clock, performing on major festival stages including Rock al Parque and Planeta Terra, and sharing festival lineups with internationally recognized artists such as Foster the People, Evanescence, Garbage, Dead Kennedys, Molotov, J Balvin, and Andrés Cepeda, among others.As an educator, Patiño has taught music theory, ear training, improvisation, composition, ensembles, guitar, and music production in universities, schools, and private settings, including Florida Atlantic University, the University of Miami Frost School of Music, and other educational institutions in the United States and Colombia.Patiño continues to develop projects that connect guitar, landscape, memory, ecology, and contemplative listening, including the cinematic solo guitar project Frames to Return To, the long-form outdoor video project Open Air Guitar, and ongoing works centered on ecology, sound, and memory.

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Carlos offers private study and project-based guidance for musicians seeking greater creative clarity, stronger musical skills, and a more personal artistic direction.

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Last updated: July 2026

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