Alicia Díaz de la Fuente

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Biography

Alicia Díaz de la Fuente is a composer, winner of the 2022 National Music Prize, phD of Philosophy and Professor of Composition at Royal Higher Conservatory of Music in Madrid.

She was born in Madrid, where she studied for a degree in Organ and Composition at the Royal Higher Conservatory of Music in Madrid. In 2005 she has a PhD in Philosophy at the UNED. She also attends courses in Music Composition and Analysis with Luis de Pablo, S. Sciarrino, B. Ferneyhough, T. Murail, K. Huber, G. Grisey or H. Lachenmann, among others, and courses in organizational interpretation with H. Meister, J. Savall, M. Radulescu …, offering concerts in Spain and abroad. She subsequently expanded her Organ studies in Barcelona, with M. Torrent. At the University of Alcalá de Henares, She extended her studies in Composition, working for four years under the direction of José Luis de Delás. In Paris, she studied music composition and computer science at IRCAM with M.-A. Dalbavie, J. Harvey or R. Reynolds, among others.

Among her works we can highlight: Ecos del pensamiento (2nd SGAE 1995 award), En el azul (commissioned INAEM 1995), Siluetas sobre fondo de silencio (INAEM 1997 Award), Elde (Festival Aujourd´hui Musiques 2000), El destino de Euterpe (commissioned by E. Télémaque 2002), Networks at the time (commissioned by the CDMC, 2002), Aymará (commissioned by FIMTC 2007), La noche en ti no alterna (commissioned INAEM 2007), Habib (commissioned by Trío Arbós 2008), Nadiyama (27 Alicante Music Festival), Bedankt! (52 Week of Religious Music of Cuenca), lueven estrellas en el mar (JONDE under the direction of Pablo González, Konzerthaus of Berlin, 2018), Más allá del horizonte (Ensemble opus 22, CD Sibila 57),Y la mañana se llenó de luz (commissioned by the OCNE, 2021), Rumor de nubes (commissioned by CNDM 2022),  Los acantilados de Jaizkibel (commissioned by the JONDE, 2022), etc..

Her teaching activity is developed as a Professor of Composition, giving classes in Composition and Analysis of the music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries at the Royal Higher Conservatory of Music in Madrid at the Bachelor and Master levels. Since 2013 she also works as a Professor of “Musical Training and Analysis” in the Degree of “Musical Interpretation” of the University Alfonso X el Sabio -Faculty of Music and Performing Arts- from 2013 to 2021 and of “Analysis” in the Master of Orchestral Conducting at the same University from 2016 to 2021, “Analysis of Contemporary Music” in the Master’s Degree in Orchestral Interpretation at the International University of Andalusia / Barenboim-Said Foundation in Seville from 2013 to 2016, Professor of Aesthetics at the Superior Conservatory of Music of Salamanca from 2003 to 2008, Professor of “Techniques and aesthetics in musical creation of the 20th and 21st centuries”, in the Master’s Degree in Musical Creation and Interpretation at the Rey Juan Carlos University, headquarters in Madrid and Granada, from 2009 to 2013 and Professor of Harmony, Analysis and Composition at the Joaquín Turina Professional Conservatory of Music in Madrid from 1992 to 2001.

As author of studies in Musical Analysis and Aesthetics, she has published articles such as: “El sonido de Kaija Saariaho” (ISSN 0541-4040), “Apuntes analíticos sobre la pieza para piano Eguzkilore de Carme Fernández Vidal” (ISBN 978-84-96814- 85-1), “Una mirada a Cripsis de Alberto Posadas” (ISBN 978-84-9982-816-9), “La música de Mallarmé, la poesía de Debussy: un viaje fascinante entre la sugerencia y el símbolo” (ISSN 0541-4040), “György Ligeti: un constructor de sueños” (Legal deposit M 30492-96), “Del espacio virtual a la ubicuidad sonora” (ISSN 0541-4040) or “Influencia de la música de Anton Webern en las vanguardias musicales europeas de los años cincuenta del siglo XX” (ISSN 1134-8615).

She has also offered courses and conferences related to her research in the field of Analysis, Aesthetics and Contemporary Music in various Universities or Higher Education Centers such as the Menéndez Pelayo International University, International University of Andalusia, University of Alcalá de Henares, University Autonomous of Madrid, Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst- Stuttgart, Royal Superior Conservatory of Music of Madrid, Superior Conservatory of Salamanca, Superior Conservatory Victoria Eugenia of Granada, Manhattan School of Music, etc.…

As a composer she has received numerous commissions from institutions such as the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music of the Ministry of Culture and Sports, National Center for Musical Broadcasting, National Orchestra and Choir of Spain, Fundación Autor-AEOS, Young National Orchestra of Spain, Tres Cantos Festival, Alicante Music Festival, Valldemossa Festival, etc…

She has received several Composition Awards, such as the Flora Prieto 1992 Prize, Fundación Jacinto e Inocencio 1993 Prize, Second SGAE 1995 Prize, INAEM 1997 Composition Prize, 1995 Musical Creation Awards from the Ministry of Culture, the National Music Award 2022, etc.

She has participated as a member of Composition Juries (INAEM Musical Composition Award, Reina Sofía Composition Award, Flora Prieto Award, Composition Foundation Author Author, AEOS Composition Aid, etc.)

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