Arturo Fuentes (Composer) 

Arturo Fuentes, the Mexican composer  (born in 1975) arrived in Europe in 1997; his musical path led him from Milan, Paris and Vienna to his current home in Innsbruck. He studied with Franco Donatoni in Milan and Horacio Vaggione in Paris before starting creative projects in electronic music at IRCAM (Paris), the Experimentalstudio in Freiburg, the ZKM (Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany) and the ISCT (Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology, Zurich). In Mexico he studied at the CIEM and with Juan Trigos.

He was awarded the electro-acoustic composition prize Música Viva (Portugal), the composition prize Suvini Zerboni and the Festival Lagonegro prize. He was also nominated for the Staubach Prize of the Music Institute of Darmstadt (Germany), the European Competition for Live Electronic Music Projects (Gaudeaumus, Netherlands) and the Prix Ars Electronica of Linz (Austria). In France he received the Nadia Boulanger grant and the Aiffaires Ètrangers/Fonca grant, and in Austria, the state grant for composition.

Arturo Fuentes conceives new musical theater projects that combine dance, video and electronics such as Line of oblivion (2010), a creation produced by the Belgian company Joji inc., or Grace Note (Wien Modern / Tanzquartier 2012), a collaboration with Chris Haring’s Liquid Loft company, the artist Günter Brus and the Ensmble Phace of Vienna. He worked with the latter as a composer in residence.

Arturo Fuentes is very active in the European scene. The year 2013 marked a first stage in the consolidation of his musical path with three concert portraits in Germany, Austria and France, two recordings on the NEOS label (by the Freiburg ensemble recherche, the PHACE ensemble in Vienna and the MDR radio Leipzig choir) as well as a DVD with the Viennese dance company Liquid Loft.

His next projects in 2013-2014 include new pieces for the Vienna radio orchestra (RSO), the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Quatuor Diotima, the guitarist Jürgen Ruck, the United Instruments ensemble of Lucilin in Luxemburg, the Tiroler Kammerorchester InnStrumenti, the vocal ensemble Stimmen and a concert portrait in Vienna organized by the ORF/Jeunesse with the PHACE ensemble.