Pablo D Gómez-Sandro

Lic – MM – MA – PhD

composer

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Know About Pablo D. Gómez-Sandro

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Pablo D. Gómez-Sandro

Pablo Gómez-Sandro is an Uruguayan composer and professor based in Cleveland, United States. From 1990 to 2007, he was the founder, main teacher, and head of Instituto Musical Polimnia, a music school in Montevideo (Uruguay’s capital), and four other cities. Since his early 20s, Pablo’s teaching charisma and tireless dedication took him and his students to high success in electronic keyboard performance in Uruguay, un heard of at the time, crowned by winning the 2nd and 3rd national electronic keyboard contests, the last carried out in the country.

From 1999 to 2003, he obtained the various accreditations to teach keyboard- performance and music-theory courses, sponsored by Yamaha Music Foundation. In 2004, he participated in Organisimo, an International Festival and Competition on Yamaha Electone keyboards in Palencia (Spain), with him being the only Latin American contestant.

Meanwhile he studied the “Licenciatura en Composición,” a 7-year music composition program at Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay), which he completed in 2007.

That same year, he emigrated to Shaker Heights, Ohio (United States), where he has resided since. In 2010, he completed a Master of Music in Composition at Cleveland State University, where he studied under composers Andrew Rindfleish and Greg D’Alessio.

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Who I am

My passion for music teaching got me into composition decades ago. I was convinced (and still am) that those who have experienced the inherent challenges and limitations of the musical creation themselves are better equipped to help others understanding the principles of the musical language. Over time, composition took over, and became an indivisible part of my artistic self. A composer that teaches? A teacher that composes? Both!

Pablo D. Gómez-Sandro

composer

Listen To Pieces

Featured Works

concert piece

Ritha' (For that Walk Back Home)

2025 | bass flute, contrabass flute

full piece

Intro

I - "Time to go home"

II - "Rubble knows"

III - "Evocation"

IV - "School"

V - "Why"

a version for bass flute solo was premiered on April 26, 2026
Greater Cleveland Flute Society annual concert
flutist: Kaleb Chesnic

photo: Reuters
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It’s October 10th, 2025. A ceasefire has been agreed.

A 10-year-old boy and his mother hear the news that quickly spread across their refugee camp. The boy is confused, but doesn’t ask questions. He is anxious to return to the only home he has known, his parents have known, his grandparents…

He doesn’t understand why there is an occupier force. It never felt right, or just, but it’s been like that all his life.

Without saying a word, his mom signals that it’s time to start walking. Soon they find themselves surrounded by hundreds of other people, all walking in the same direction. Nobody would imagine that this cease fire would be violated more than 2,400 times between October 10th and April 14th, 2026, almost 300 times in the first month alone.

They just walk. Home.

Hours pass. The boy is exhausted, looks at his mom and she looks back at him with the expression of someone that cannot cry any more.

All of a sudden, the area becomes familiar. They stop. The boy recognizes what seems to be his school, his friend’s house, the little shops in the neighborhood, the street he would take to go see his grandma...

But there is nothing there. The bombs have destroyed it all. It’s all rubble. But that rubble speaks volumes… It screams... It questions…

“It’s time to go,” the mom says. “It’s not safe here,” even though she doesn’t know where to go.

They just continue. Walking.

media, theatre

Suspense Cues Reel

2026 | hybrid orchestra

collage of audio fragments from suspense cues written in the past few years

(image: rawpixel.com)

media

Horror Cues Reel

2026 | hybrid orchestra

collage of audio fragments from horror cues composed in 2024-2025

ELECTROACOUSTIC

It’s In Your Blood

2009 | flutes, percussion, electronics

premiered on May 10, 2010
Drinko Hall – Cleveland State University

electronics: CSound, DSP

Media, Theatre

Santa Marina Island

2024 | hybrid orchestra

from the play “Trópico Macbeth, part 1 –
The Rise to Power”
August - September 2024

theatre

La desesperación de Samuel

2022 | guitar, strings

from the play “Tiempo muerto”
April-May 2022

theatre

La decisión final

2022 | orchestra

from the play “Tiempo muerto”
April-May 2022

concert piece

Kultrungtun II

2026 * | two percussionists

full piece

part 1

part 2

part 3

part 4

part 5

part 6

* adaptation of the piece written in 2013-2014
for solo percussion

percussionist 1:
tumba, conga, quinto, bongos, woodblocks (2), cowbell, wooden frame drum (22"), crash cymbal (18"), ride cymbal (18"), china cymbal (18")

percussionist 2:
bass drum, gran cassa, kick drum, toms (3), cowbell, rain stick, wooden wind chimes, crash cymbal (16") ride cymbals (20", 22"), china cymbal (15")