Jorge Enrique Amado Molina
(b.1997)
A 2020 graduate of Havana’s Universidad de las Artes (ISA), Jorge Amado received “Título de Oro” honors as well as most integral student honors in both Composition and Violin. As a composer, Jorge has participated in several important Cuban festivals of contemporary music, such as Composition Awards Casa de las Américas, the Havana Contemporary Music Festival, the Havana Chamber Music Festival and Festival Música Nova. Jorge has performed in the violin sections of several orchestras, such as the Orchestra of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT), conducted by Miguel Patterson; the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, conducted by Orbert Davis in a Chicago performance; the Cuban American Youth Orchestra (CAYO), conducted by James Ross; and the Ibero-American Virtual Orchestra, collaborating with Arturo Márquez and Jorge Drexler. He has also been featured in five recordings as a soloist.
A member of Agencia Cubana de Derecho de Autor Musical (ACDAM) and Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE), Jorge has received numerous accolades and awards in composition: Musicalia 2015, 2017 and 2018 sponsored by Universidad de las Artes (ISA); 1st Prize in the UNEAC Composition Competition "Harold Gramatges" 2015 (Cuba); Finalist of the Alfred Schnittke Competition and Composers' Forum 2016 (Ukraine); 8SW Composition Competition Award, New York, (USA) 2018; Ojalá Symphonic Creation Award 2018 (Cuba); International Composition Contest for String Quartet “Nuestra América” 2019 (Mexico); and winner of Conmutaciones Scholarship 2019, sponsored by AHS (Cuba). Jorge’s music has been performed in Cuba, USA, Holland, Germany, Italy, Costa Rica and Mexico.
Jorge and Jessie
Both violinists and composers, NYC-based Jessie Montgomery and Havana's Jorge Amado met in February 2019 on a CAYO Arts Delegation to Cuba and became friends...