Festivals, etc. He was appointed Honorary Member of the Fine Arts Advisory Council of the University of Texas at Austin. From 1995 to 2010 was Chairman of the Foundation of the Conservatory of Las Rosas, the oldest conservatory of the Americas and Mexico's most ambitious music education project. Every three years, the National Council for the Arts of Mexico and the Las Rosas Conservatory organize the Carlos Prieto International Cello Competition, so named in recognition of his career and work in promoting and enriching Latin American cello music. In recent years he played a series of concerts with Yo-Yo Ma in Mexico, Caracas, New Orleans, Chicago, Spain and Cuba. Writing career Prieto has recorded over 100 works and written ten books: Russian Letters, Around the World with the Cello, From the USSR to Russia, The Adventures of a Cello –translated into Portuguese, Russian, and English- Paths and Images of Music, Five Thousand Years of Words (with a foreword by Carlos Fuentes); Throughout China with the Cello with a foreword by Yo-Yo Ma; Dmitri Shostakovich, genius and drama; Short history of music in Mexico, and My musical tours around the world. Music in Mexico and autobiographical notes. Some have been translated into English, Russian and Portuguese and have appeared in audiobook form. In 2011 he was elected a Member of the Mexican Academy of the Spanish Language. In 2012 he was elected honorary member of the Ecuador Academy of the Spanish Language and, in 2016, of the Chile Academy of the Spanish Language. Discography Espejos (Mirrors) Ernesto Halffter. Canzona e Pastorella Tomás Marco. Primer Espejo de Falla Mario Lavista. Tres Danzas Seculares J. Gutiérrez Heras. Canción en el Puerto Manuel Castillo. Alborada Rodolfo Halffter. Sonata (urtext digital classics jbcc 015) Le Grand Tango Le Grand Tango Piazzolla. Le Grand tango Piazzolla. Milonga Piazzolla. Michelangelo 70 Piazzolla. Balada para mi Muerte Ginastera. Triste para cello y piano Villa-Lobos. Aria de Bachianas Brasileiras no. 5 Federico Ibarra. Sonata Robert R. Rodríguez. Lull-A- Bear Manuel Enríquez. Fantasía (urtext digital classics jbcc 014) Dmitri Shostakovich. Sonatas Sonata op. 40 Sonata op. 147 (transcrita por Carlos Prieto) (urtext digital classics jbcc 123) Conciertos y Chôro Camargo Guarnieri. Chôro for cello and orchestra Federico Ibarra. Concierto for cello and orchestra Carlos Chávez. Concierto for cello and orchestra (urtext digital classics jbcc 023) Azul y Verde (Blue and Green) Ginastera (Argentina) Pampeana (Uruguay) Piece for cello and piano