Carlos Prieto has been played on NTS shows including Tafelmusik w/ Francesco Fusaro, with El Palo Verde, Suite De Ballet first played on 30 October 2022.

Carlos Prieto is a Mexican-born cellist, writer and composer. He plays a Stradivarius cello named "The Piatti" after Carlo Alfredo Piatti, affectionatelly nicknamed "Chelo Prieto" by the current owner. He is a promoter of contemporary, original classical instrument music by Latin American composers.

Prieto began playing the cello at age four, studying under the instruction of Hungarian cellist Imre Hartman and later continued his instruction with Pierre Fournier in Geneva and Leonard Rose in New York. He later studied engineering and economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) a private, coeducational research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Prieto

his website is: http://www.carlosprieto.com/