Composer · b. 1960
Pablo Aranda
Biography
Pablo Aranda, born in 1960, studied for a bachelor’s degree in composition at the Faculty of Arts of the Universidad de Chile. A DAAD scholarship subsequently enabled him to pursue a master’s degree in composition at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne. His teachers included Cirilo Vila and Andrés Alcalde in Chile, Johannes Fritsch in Germany and Franco Donatoni in Italy. He participated in the Darmstadt Summer Courses for Contemporary Music and attended classes with Brian Ferneyhough, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mathias Spahlinger and Helmut Lachenmann.
His works include Da for two flutes, Parphe for orchestra, Per Franko for flute, Alma for flute, piano and violin, and the stage work El Desvarío del Apuntador. Since 2000 he has directed the Taller de Música Contemporánea, presenting concerts and premieres by Chilean and international composers. In 2004 he established the biennial Encuentro Internacional de Compositores.