Carlos Pérez Tabares

Biography

Carlos Pérez Tabares is a music theorist, pianist, and composer. His research focuses on 19th-century opera, jazz, and Latin American music. His dissertation recasts Bellini’s lyric forms as flexible, text-sensitive structures that integrate musical form with poetic organization. His forthcoming article in Acta Musicologica Militantia examines the music of Cuban pianist-singer Bola de Nieve, showing how his performances negotiated questions of race, sexuality, and religion as forms of cultural identity and resistance.

He has presented his work at national and international conferences, including the Society for Music Theory, Music Theory Midwest, Issues in Contemporary Jazz, and Music, Research, and Activism. His compositions have been performed and recorded by ensembles and soloists worldwide.