Arturo Fuentes (Mexico City, 1975). He has composed instrumental works with live-electronics and literary, visual and scenic elements. In Paris he earned a doctorate in composition and a master in philosophy under the direction of Horacio Vaggione and Antonia Soulez respectively. He attended the IRCAM-Cursus in Composition and Computer Music. He received the diplomas on guitar and music theory by the Associate Board of the Royal Schools of Music of London. In Milan he studied with Franco Donatoni and in Mexico he earned a bachelor’s degree from CIEM and attended the composition workshops of Juan Trigos.

His piece Hymne 80, has been selected for the 3rd European Competition for Live Electronic Music Projects [Austria]. He won the first prize at the 8th Electroacoustic Composition Competition Musica Viva in Portugal and his piece Broken Mirrors was nominated for the Staubach-Prize (International Music Institute Darmstadt), premiered by the Arditti Quartet and the Experimentalstudio Freiburg. His works for guitar won the Italian composition prizes by the Suvini Zerboni Editions and the Lagonegro Festival. He received the Mexican FONCA scholarship and in 2001 and 2006 won the “20 de noviembre, S.L.P.” science and arts awards. In France he obtained the Nadia Boulanger and the Ministry of Foreign Affaires scholarships. His articles about composition, computer music and philosophy have been published in Mexico, Denmark, Spain, Austria and Germany.

His future projects will include the composition of new works for the ensembles Recherche (Germany), Ictus (Belgium), TENM (Innsbruck), Phace-Contemporary Music (Vienna), Curious Chamber Players (Stockholm), the Diotima string quartet, the MDR Leipzig radio choir, as well as new collaborations with the mezzo-soprano Susanne Otto, the guitarist Jürgen Ruck, the flutist Richard Craig, the violist Garth Knox, the cellist Rohan de Saram and the pianist Alberto Rosado. Recently he collaborated with the choreographer Johanne Saunier and the scenographer Jim Clayburgh in the work Line of Oblivion, based on a text by the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes.

He has been living in Europe since 1997 [www.arturofuentes.com].

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