| Estelí Gomez | |
| Birth Date: | 28 December 1985 |
| Instrument: | Vocals, piano |
| Genre: | Contemporary classical music, Classical music, Baroque music, Early music, a cappella |
| Years Active: | 2011–present |
Estelí Gomez is a multiple Grammy Award winning musician[1] from Watsonville, California.[2]
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",[3] and they also performed at the 2014 ceremony. Roomful of Teeth was nominated again in 2015 for the album, Render.[4]
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"[5] along with fellow Roomful of Teeth members, Caroline Shaw, Cameron Beauchamp and Virginia Warnken Kelsey.[6] 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.[7]
Gomez received her undergraduate degree from Yale,[8] and a masters from McGill.[9]
She first gained international acclaim in 2011 when she received first prize in the Canticum Gaudium International Early Music Vocal Competition in Poznan, Poland.[10]
She has been praised for her "clear, bright voice" in The New York Times,[11] and for an "artistry that belies her young years" in the Kansas City Metropolis,[12] and has been a featured performer at the Kennedy Center,[13] the University of Oregon's Music Today Festival,[14] 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,[15] and toured with Conspirare as a part of its new major work, Considering Matthew Shepard, for the 2017/2018 season.[16] In February 2018, she returned to Carnegie Hall, performing songs by Philip Glass and arranged by Nico Muhly.[17]
In 2019, Gomez joined the faculty of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, as an assistant professor of voice.[18]
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".[19]