David del Puerto

David del Puerto

David del Puerto (Madrid, 1964)

Composer and guitarist, disciple of Francisco Guerrero and Luis de Pablo.

His output includes more than 180 works in all genres, including five symphonies, four operas, a ballet, numerous solo concertos and an important catalogue for guitar. His work has been recorded on more than 40 discs.

In 1993 he won the Gaudeamus Prize in Amsterdam with his first Concerto for oboe and chamber ensemble, and the “El Ojo Crítico” Prize of Radio Nacional de España. In 2005 he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Música. In 2020 he won, together with guitarist Jeremy Bass, the Orpheus Music Award for the album “David del Puerto: Guitar Sonatas, played by Jeremy Bass”.

In the 2011-12 season he was composer-in-residence with the OCNE and the CNDM to develop the pedagogical project “Simbiosis”, premiered with great success in May 2012 at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid.

For more than 20 years he has been a regular guest professor at conservatories and universities in Europe, the United States and Latin America.

He teaches Composition at the Centro Superior de Enseñanza Musical Katarina Gurska in Madrid and Harmony and Theoretical Foundations at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía. Since 2021 he has held the Chair of Composition at the International Courses Música en Compostela.

He is guitarist and composer of the group rejoice! with which he has premiered the shows Sobre la noche, Carmen replay (ballet commissioned by the Teatro Real de Madrid) and Caro Domenico, commissioned by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura.

Numerous articles and academic works have been written about his work, including three doctoral theses (Jeremy Bass, University of Kentucky, Lexington; Ángel Luis Castaño, University of Extremadura; Eduardo Soutullo, University of Vigo).

More information

www.daviddelpuerto.com

Subjects taught:

  • Instrumentation and Orchestration
  • Analysis of Music of the 20th and 21st C. XX and XXI
  • Analysis
  • Electroacoustic Composition
  • Audio Creation and Processing with Programming Language

  • Computer Aided Algorithmic Composition
  • History of Electroacoustic Music

Degrees in which he/she teaches:

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