Born in Brazil (1980), 2010 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award Winner, Gabriel Santiago is a Composer/Arranger/ Acoustic and Electric Guitar Player. He is currently living in Austin, Texas, attending the Doctoral Program in Composition at the University of Texas at Austin. Santiago has collaborated with a wide variety of artists such as Esperanza Spalding, Chris Potter, Stefon Harris, Terence Blanchard, Carmen Bradford, André Mehmari, Romero Lubambo, Odair Assad and Gilson Peranzzetta among others. He has been composing music for a wide variety of ensembles, styles and medias including Film, TV, and Internet. His music is fresh and carries all of his influences that go from Brazilian Music to Jazz and Classical Music. He has been featured as a guest artist at Universities and colleges across America like The University of Wisconsin Stevens Point. With The Gabriel Santiago Quintet, he just released a self-titled DVD, which will be followed by a World Tour in 2011-12. Along with leading his Quintet, Santiago has been writing and performing with The Gabriel Santiago Jazz Orchestra. The ensemble recently filmed a live concert, which will be released as a DVD in the spring of 2012.