High spots / news
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.
30 September 2024
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
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
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
28 August 2022
International composers meeting.
Santiago, Chile. GAM Centre.
"La Furia del Ermitaño, a theater of sounds about madness".
Taller de MúsicaContemporánea.
Pablo Aranda, dir.
Complete performance 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.