*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

2024

Guest at Ana Lara’s program Hacia una música nueva, Radio UNAM (MX)

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

2024

Clemens Gadenstätter - Building Bodies for ensemble - published by Impronta Edition (DE)

Score and parts

Martin Schüttler - Ich bin dein Boy  for gender-queer voice, ensemble and live electronics

Score

Isabel Mundry - Signaturen II for two pianos, percussion and two string groups

Parts

Stefan Prins - New Work for electric guitar and string quartet

Score and parts

2023

Clemens Gadenstätter - Making of - intimacy for flute and orchestra - published by Impronta Edition (DE)

Score and parts, in collaboration with Luís Salgueiro

Clemens Gadenstätter - 4 Soliloquies on “Making of - intimacy” - intimacy for solo flute - published by Impronta Edition (DE)

Score

Clemens Gadenstätter - BREAK EDEN,  Songs for voice and keyboard - published by Impronta Edition (DE)

Score, in collaboration with Carlos G. Hernández Canales

Martin Schüttler - schoener leben 1  (music for K.C.) for countertenor with e-piano, megaphone, amplifications, tapes, mask and gun

Revised score

Turgut Erçetin - Das Phonem zwischen zwei Wörtern (b) for simultaneous baroque ensemble and large orchestra - published by Edition Gravis (DE)

Parts, in collaboration with Edition Gravis

Pedro Berardinelli - Desencanto for voice, bass flute, accordion and percussion

Score, in collaboration with Carlos G. Hernández Canales

2022

Clemens Gadenstätter - Four studies for self-portraits in surroundings for accordion and electronics - Score

Martin Schüttler - i wd leave leaf & dance for orchestra with electronic tracks
Score and parts, in collaboration with Carlos G. Hernández Canales, Philipp Mayer, Brandon Lincoln Synder, and Juan de Dios Magdaleno

Mazen Kerbaj - brrt for trumpet solo - Score

Pedro Berardinelli - Esbatimento Negro for ensemble
Score and parts, in collaboration with Carlos G. Hernández Canales

María Eugenia Luc - Argia Eta Itzala
Score, in collaboration with Francisco J. Domínguez Robles and Carlos G. Hernández Canales

2021

Stefan Prins - under_current for electric guitar and orchestra
Score, in collaboration with Haosi Howard Chen and Carlos G. Hernández Canales

Stefan Prins - inhabit_hinhibit for ensemble - Parts

Clemens Gadenstätter - Studies for portraits in surroundings for oboe and keyboard - Score

Martin Schüttler - Schweine for ensemble
Parts, in collaboration with Carlos G. Hernández Canales

Martin Schüttler - Boys don’t cry for ensemble
Parts, in collaboration with Carlos G. Hernández Canales

2020

Clemens Gadenstätter - die Zelle for voices and ensemble - published by Rai Com S.p.A. (IT)
Score and parts, in collaboration with Carlos G. Hernández Canales and Brandon Lincoln Synder

2019

Clemens Gadenstätter - Studies for imaginary portraits for accordion solo - published by Rai Com S.p.A. (IT) - Score*

Clemens Gadenstätter - Studies for portraits for recorder solo - published by Rai Com S.p.A. (IT) - Score*

Clemens Gadenstätter - Nerone 1 & 2 - published by Rai Com S.p.A. (IT) - Score*

*in collaboration with Carlos G. Hernández Canales

2018

Clemens Gadenstätter - Studies for a portrait for electric guitar solo - published by Rai Com S.p.A. (IT) - Score