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Alberto Arroyo (Spain, 1989) is a Dresden-based composer. He studied composition at CSMA (Aragon, Spain) with José Ma Sánchez-Verdú and Agustín Charles and his Master Degree at HfM Dresden (Germany) with Mark Andre and Manos Tsangaris. Currently he is writing his PhD thesis (The ‘meta-instrument’ as compositional technique) with J.P. Hiekel. He is also founder and Artistic Director of Continuum XXI, Historical Instruments Ensemble for Early and Contemporary Music (since 2018 Continuum XXI is part of the Support Program of the Deutscher Musikrat-Contemporary Music Section as young and innovative ensemble) and member of the Acantun Kollektiv. Arroyo has premiered his first 70 minutes opera ONIROS. Ein Musiktheater der Träume and is Composer in Residence by AuditivVokal Dresden. |
Alberto’s compositions work with different layers: his sound idea aims to fusion different sources in order to create an auditory illusion (a ‘meta- instrument’), while his work in the field of Music Theatre can be described as a ‘poetry of the invisible’, in an attempt to reach ‘the beauty of what we don’t see’. He conceives composition as la living laboratory where he experiments with special sound sources (saxophone with trumpet mute, historical instruments, a new ‘mirrorphone’, etc.)
His music has been awarded with different prizes (SGAE-Fundación Autor 2011, being “the youngest composer ever nominee”, “Fourth International Sergei Slonimsky Competition”, “Klänge hinter Mauern” or the “Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium 2019: Beyond Boundaries”) and scholarships (Mozarteum Sommerakademie, Darmstadt Institut für Neue Musik, DAAD-HfM Dresden) and has been played in Germany, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, France, Russia, Croatia, Italy, Thailand, Japan and Brazil by musicians such as Ensemble recherche, Neue Vokalsolisten Stuttgart, Andrés Gomis (SIGMA Project), Trío Arbós, AuditivVokal Dresden, El Perro Andaluz, Dresdner Barockorchester or Potsdam Kammerakademie, among many others.
His music has been published in diverse CDs, including a Portrait-CD (Sibila nr. 59) “Poesie des Vergessens” (Potsdam Kammerakademie) or “Letum non omnia finit” (Voktett Hannover). He has also published different articles about contemporary music and his figure as composer has appeared in diverse newspapers and books in Germany and Spain (MusikTexte, Gegenwart und Zukunft des Musiktheaters, SulPonticello, Emille KEAMS, Sibila, DeutschlandRadio, ABC, RNEetc.). Alberto’s compositions are published in BabelScores.
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