Aliocha Solovera

Aliocha Solovera Roje was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1963. Since 1987 his works have been performed in Chile and internationally, including Ljubljana, Vienna, Copenhagen, Zagreb, Bucharest, Cologne, Frankfurt, The Hague, Madrid, São Paulo, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Melbourne. His music has been recorded and broadcast by ORF, WDR, Deutschlandfunk, Hessischer Rundfunk, RTVSLO, HRT, Romanian radio and television, Radio Cultura FM in São Paulo, Radio Beethoven and Radio Universidad de Chile, among others.

His distinctions include an Alban Berg Foundation scholarship; the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research’s Würdigungspreis (1993); second prize in the Republic of Slovenia’s first composition competition (1993); the Lampadia Foundation Prize in São Paulo (2000); the Instituto Chileno Norteamericano’s Charles Ives Prize (2003); and Chile’s Altazor Award for directing the Ensamble Contemporáneo (2003). His teaching has included composition at the Institute of Music of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.