Carlos Cuestas is a multi-instrumentalist and scholar based in New York City. He has performed as a soloist and in chamber, orchestral, and traditional music ensembles on different plucked instruments in the United States, Mexico, Colombia, and Ireland. Carlos's research spans eighteenth and nineteenth-century guitar repertoire, particularly music for keyboard and guitar, and the art of improvisation in the style of the early Romantic period. Carlos participated in numerous projects as a continuo player, including opera and oratorio productions in New York City, New Jersey, Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle, and San Francisco. As an ethnographer, Carlos is an expert on the centuries-old son jarocho tradition from Veracruz, Mexico, playing a consort of traditional instruments, and is a former member of the New York City ensemble Radio Jarocho. Carlos is a PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology at the City University of New York, The Graduate Center researching the effects of environmental change in the poetic and musical practice of son jarocho.