Composer · b. 1962
Boris Alvarado
Biography
Boris Alvarado was born in Valparaíso, Chile, in 1962. He earned a doctorate in composition at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and pursued doctoral studies in philosophy at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. In Chile he studied composition with Alejandro Guarello and Andrés Alcalde; in Poland, with Krzysztof Penderecki and Marian Borkowski.
As a composer and conductor, he has participated in contemporary music concerts around the world and conducted orchestras in the Americas and Europe. His work has included a full-time professorship at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso and lectures on contemporary Chilean music at leading music academies. His compositions have been performed in the Americas, Europe and Asia and recorded on several CDs. He has also published books and articles on music and philosophy.