High spots / news

High spots / news

29 march 2025


"Tarió", Monographic CD release


Kairos, Vienna.


Available here

31 March 2025

Round Table

FARE = RICERCARE | Fumi dal confine


An open discussion table among the artists protagonists of the AAA Call – Atelier Aperti per Artista, on research as a practice, an action that is generated and renewed in the very act of investigating. A dialogue on the movement of research, on its operational forms and on the critical issues with which it takes shape in contemporary artistic practice.


Casa degli Artisti, Milan.

15 March 2025

Public Program

"understand is not the right word, the music must be felt"

A talk with composer Antonio Blanco Tejero

Casa degli Artisti, Milan.

22 February 2025


Anthro Day, Milan.


Workshop and lecture


"Banned utopias - La Furia del Ermitaño, a theatre of sounds about madness"


With Nicola Scaldaferri & Matteo Bianchi

2024 - 2025

CIMA, Centro de Investigación Musical Autónomo.

Valparaíso.


New composition commission supported by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.


Image form "Amereida",

Ediciones e[ad], 1967, p. 35

Courtesy of the publisher, Valparaíso, 2024


1 January - 30 march 2025


Casa degli Artisti, Milan.


Composer in residence.

7 November 2024


XXXIII Chilean Contemporary Music Festival, GAM Centre, Santiago, Chile


"Anathema", for Harp and String Quartet.


Gabriel Morales & Miguel Muñoz, violins; Cristopfer Schenke, viola; Beatriz Lemus, cello; Salvador harp; Cristian Morales, conduction. .

31 October 2024


V International Forum

Music, Science and New Technologies. (streaming)


With Fernando Matus, Sebastián Tapia, and Gerardo Marcoleta.

12 July 2024


Resonar Festival,

La Serena.


"Punctum", for oboe and

string orchestra, alonside works by Esteban Correa and Marcos Stuardo.


Camerata La Serena,

Alejandro Meléndez, cond.

José Luis Urquieta, Oboe.



May 2024


Work in progress.


Monographic CD with KAIROS record label, Vienna.


Virgo Vox Ensemble, Milan.

Duo Lallement Marques, Paris.

Plus-Minus Ensemble, London.

International Contemporary Ensemble, New York.

Taller de Música Contemporánea, Santiago de Chile.


With the support of the Chilean government.


3 May 2024


"Premio Pulsar de la Música Chilena"

(Pulsar prize of Chilean Music).


Nominee to Best artist of classical and concert music category.


For "La Furia del Ermitaño, a theatre of sounds about madness" performed by Taller de Música Contemporánea, conducted by Pablo Aranda.

4, 5 April 2024


Real Conservatorio de Música.


Albacete, Spain.


"Cartographies for a navigation

through timbral dramaturgies"


Lecture and Master Class


9 November 2023


XXXII Chilean Contemporary Music Festival, GAM Centre, Santiago, Chile


"Taiken", for Cello.

Beatriz Lemus.

21 April 2023


Wittener Tage Für Neue Kammermusik,

Witten, Germany


Newcomer Concert.


"Maim ve daf" (2009), for violin, viola, cello, and double bass.


IEMA ENSEMBLE (Ensemble Modern Akademie and HfMDK Frankfurt):  Miria Sailer, Violin; Miho Kawai, Viola; Clara Franz, Cello; Riverton Vilela Alves, Double Bass.

Recording by WDR 3, here.

January 2023

Manuel Contreras Vázquez joins Universal Edition


See complete profile and published works so far here

14 April 2022


"Premio Pulsar de la Música Chilena"

(Pulsar prize of Chilean Music).


Nominee to Best artist of classical and concert music.


For "Lidio", performed by Duo

Lallement-Marques.

March 5, 2022


Such Music. 

a program by Resonance Radio,

London, Uk.


"Peripeteia", for 10 instruments.

"Tensor", for ensemble.


Broadcast hosted by Rihards Endriksons, journalist and artistic director of Latvia's Skaņu Mežs festival.

16 October 2021

18.00 (Local time. GMT-5)


Festival Expresiones Contemporáneas.

Xalapa section. Mexico.


"Ddüwéwé",

Synesthetic invasion

(Online)

 

Preliminary version. 


Paola Muñoz, Recorders

Laura Bisotti, Installation


David Velez, video production.

 

September 2021

RE.CO Lab project.

New York, USA.

CeReNeM, Huddersfield, UK.

"Taiken", for solo Cello.

(online)


Michael Nicolas

International Contemporary Ensemble.