*1988, Mexico City
Studies
2014 - 2017
Master of Music in Composition with Wolfgang Rihm at the Hochschule für Musik (HfM) Karlsruhe (DE)
2012 - 2014
Bachelor of Music in Composition with Wolfgang Rihm at the HfM Karlsruhe (DE)
2008 - 2011
Composition studies with Alejandro Romero and José Luis Castillo at the Escuela Superior de Música of the National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico City (MX)
Masterclasses
2021
Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik (AT) - Workshop with Quartetto Maurice and Clara Iannotta
2018
Lucerne Festival Academy (CH) - Composition seminar with Wolfgang Rihm and Dieter Ammann
2017
Sound of Wander - Associazione per lo Studio e la Promozione della Musica Contemporanea, Milán (IT)
Masterclass with Chaya Czernowin
2013, 2015
SWR EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO - Academy matrix13/15, Freiburg (DE)
Masterclases with Mark André, Helmut Lachenmann, Brice Pauset and José María Sánchez-Verdú, among others
2010, 2012, 2014
International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt (DE)
Masterclasses with Georges Aperghis, Pierluigi Billone, Brian Ferneyhough, Rebecca Saunders and Matthias Spahlinger, among others
Awards
2022
First prize of the Kompositionspreis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart (DE) for the work Leve for guitar quartet
Grants / Artist residencies
2025
Q-O2 artist residency in collaboration with Aimée Theriot (BE)
2024
Stipend of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg (DE)
2021 - 2022
Jóvenes Creadores Grant of Mexico’s Culture Secretariat (MX)
INITIAL-Sonderstipendium Grant of the Berlin Academy of Arts (DE)
2018 - 2019
Jóvenes Creadores Grant of the Mexican National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA, MX)
2018
Prácticas de Vuelo, artist residency at the Mexican Center for Music and Sonic Arts (CMMAS) in Morelia (MX)
2017
Landesgraduiertenförderung Grant of the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg (DE)
COMPOLAB, artist residency with ensembles Ars Nova and Proxima Centauri at the Abbaye Royale de Saint Jean d’Angély (FR)
2016
Wolfgang Rihm Stipend of the Hoepfner-Siftung, Karlsruhe (DE)
2015
Afinidades Insospechadas, artist residency at the Centro de las Artes de San Agustín Etla (CaSa), Oaxaca (MX)
2014 - 2015
Jóvenes Creadores Grant, FONCA (MX)
2014
Student Scholarship financed by the DAAD and the HfM Karlsruhe’s Freundeskreis (DE)
Festivals / Concerts (selection)
2024
Batida Seminal Festival, Arkaoda, Berlin (DE)
FEED, Hoax Quartet-Tour: Lucerne/Zürich/Basel/Bern/Fribourg/Inssbruck (CH/AT)
MOONBREAKER 2121, Zeiss Major Planetarium Berlin (DE)
2023
ECLAT, Stuttgart (DE)
Künstlerhaus Bremen (DE)
MOONBREAKER 2121, Zeiss Major Planetarium Berlin (DE)
2022
MOONBREAKER 2121, Zeiss Major Planetarium Berlin (DE)
2021
Lucerne Festival Forward, KKL Lucerne (CH)
Bludenzer Tage Zeitgemäßer Musik, Bludenz (AT)
ZeitGenuss Festival, Karlsruhe (DE)
2019
FONCA - Creación en Movimiento, Fotomuseo Cuatro Caminos, CDMX (MX)
2018
Festival Internacional Cervantino, Guanajuato (MX)
Lucerne Festival Academy, Lucerna (CH)
2017
FOCUS! Festival, Juilliard School, Nueva York (US)
Aniversario 90 del Kunitachi College of Music, Tokio (JP)
CONCERTLAB, Salle Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Saint Jean d'Angély / Theatre des 4 Saisons, Gradignan / Maison du Mexique, Paris (FR)
2016
Donaueschinger Musiktage - Next Generation Concert, Erich-Kästner-Halle, Donaueschingen (DE)
Música e Arte, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela (ES)
CEPROMUSIC Concer Season, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Ciudad de México (MX)
2015
SWR EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO Academy matrix15, Schloss Ebnet, Freiburg (DE)
Bilkent New Music Days, Bilkent Concert Hall, Ankara (TR)
VertixeVIGO15, Museo Verbum, Vigo (ES)
Düsseldorfer Gitarrenfestival, Schumann Saal, Düsseldorf (DE)
Do Audible, Museo Ramón María Aller, Lalín (ES)
Afinidades Insospechadas, CaSa, Oaxaca (MX)
2014
International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt - Workshop Concert, Kunsthalle Darmstadt (DE)
Música e Arte: Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela (ES)
ZeitGenuss Festival, HfM Karlsruhe (DE)
Nachtklänge: Neue Musik in der Insel, Badisches Staatstheater's Insel Theater, Karlsruhe (DE)
2013
KlangStream, Composers Hall, Moscow (RU)
CEPROMUSIC Concert Season, Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City (MX)
2011
Festival Resonante, Mexicali (MX)
Exhibitions
2016
Dúo - Collaboration with Rodrigo Hernández, T66 Kulturwerk, Friburgo (DE)
Fake it till you make it - Group exhibition, Ehrenhof Exhibition Hall, KIT Karlsruhe (DE)
Radio / Podcasts
2023
ECLAT Festival 2023, JetztMusik, SWR2 (DE)
ECLAT Festival 2023, Neue Musik, Deutschlandfunk Kultur (DE)
2021
The Cave with Nico Sauer and Maribel Suárez Alonso at Nico Sauer‘s Ears of a Composer, Cashmere Radio (DE)
2020
MusikMusikMusik, Episode 6, Podcast of Bigger Space (DE)
2016
Donaueschinger Musiktage 2016, JetztMusik, SWR2 (DE)
His Master's Choice: Markus Hechtle, Studio Neue Musik, WDR3 (DE)
2015
Guest at Ana Lara’s program Hacia una música nueva, Radio UNAM (MX)
Zimmer 205: die Kompositionsklassen Hechtle/Rihm, JetztMusik, SWR2 (DE)
Teaching / Talks
2021
Sonidos desde el núcleo: Online talk with Arabella Medrano, Andrew Crossley and Wingel Mendoza (MX)
2020
El tono como acontecimiento: Online talk in the context of Josué Amador and Victor Ibarra’s virtual academic exchange initiative Clases magistrales e intercambio virtual de alumnos de composición (MX)
2019
Masterclass for composition students, Escuela Superior de Música del INBA, CDMX (MX)
5-day composition workshop, Escuela Superior de Música Colegio San Juan s.XXI, Matamoros, Tamaulipas (MX)
Publications
2017
Feldlinien at Huun: Art/Thought from Mexico (vol.1), Editorial RM (MX)
Music for film
2020
Gianluca Facchini - A True Story of Friendship and Values - short documentary
Gianluca Facchini - The New Light - short film
2017
Verena Wippenbeck - Fricca - video art
Music Engraving