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Aurélio Edler-Copes's work is recognized for its intensity, dynamism and considerable dramatic force. His artistic research has led him to electrify acoustic instruments and merge them with electric instruments in unique electronic setups, which integrate analog and digital in real time, exploring also interactive light and video setups.

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A highly active creator, he collaborates with prestigious soloists and ensembles (Ensemble Intercontemporain, Klangforum Wien, Musikfabrik, United Instruments of Lucilin, Quatuor Diotima, Quatuor Béla, Nieuw Ensemble, L'Itinéraire, Mosaik, Vortex, Taller Sonoro, Orchestras of São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Bilbao, Euskadi, Lorraine, et al.) and has received some thirty international composition prizes, in particular the New Forum Jeune Création Prize, the "Premio Roma" of the Spanish Foreign Affairs Ministry, and the Georges Wildenstein Prize of the French Académie de Beaux Arts.

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He has been composer in residence at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, the Casa de Velázquez–Académie de France in Madrid, and KulturKontakt–Federal Chancellery of Austria, in Vienna. He has also worked in residence at IRCAM, GRAME, GMEM, SCRIME, Phonos Foundation, Royaumont Foundation and with the Ensemble Taller Sonoro, with the support of Ibermúsicas Program. He has been co-founder and artistic director of the Krater Ensemble and associate composer of the Cie. Éclats. He is co-curator of the new radiophonic concert series Live.Bazar, in Paris.

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In addition to his work as a composer, Aurélio Edler-Copes regularly acts as electric guitarist and performer of electronics in his pieces as well as in the programs that accompany them, thus linking the contemporary repertoire including electric guitar and electronics with his own works. This is the case of his recent collaborations with United Instruments of Lucilin, Ensemble l'Itinéraire, LUX:NM and Bazar Électrique as well in his solo concerts. In 2017 he released IN C+50, his first solo guitar & electronics album, which brings a new version of Terry Riley’s In C, for electric guitar, 17 virtual delays and 8-channel spatialization, in addition to a new work of him, In Resonance, for the same setup. IN C+50 has been presented in concert in France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Sweden, Mexico and Brazil. His new solo project Mental Guitar Machine has recently had its avant premiere at Naxos Konzerhalle in Frankfurt.

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Aurélio Edler-Copes earned a bachelor degree in classical guitar with Daniel Wolff at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul–UFRGS, Brazil, and in composition with Gabriel Erkoreka at the Centro Superior de Música del País Basco–Musikene. He also earned a master's in composition and musical theater with Georges APERGHIS at the Hochschule der Künste Bern–HKB, Switzerland, and completed his training in the Cursus of Composition and Computer Music at IRCAM–Centre Pompidou in Paris. He is teacher of composition and electronic music at the Conservatoire Henri Dutilleux de Clamart in the south region of Paris.

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STUDIES

 

MASTER IN COMPOSITION AND MUSICAL THEATER (2008-2010)

Hochschule der Künste Bern, Switzerland

Composition Teacher: Georges Aperghis

Tutor Master Thesis: Xavier Dayer

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CURSUS OF COMPOSITION AND COMPUTER MUSIC (2009-2010)

IRCAM – Centre Pompidou Paris

Composition Teacher: Yan Maresz

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BACHELOR DEGREE IN COMPOSITION (2002-2007)

Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco — Musikene, Spain

Composition Teacher: Gabriel Erkoreka

Tutor — Theoretical final work: Elixabete Etxebeste

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BACHELOR DEGREE IN GUITAR (1997-2001)

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil

Guitar Teacher: Daniel Wolff

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ERASMUS PROGRAM (2005-2006)

Conservatorio di Musica di Bologna, Italy

Composition Teachers: Adriano Guarnieri & Cristina Landuzzi

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​RESIDENCES

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Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, Italy / 1 year, 2010-2011

Casa de Velázquez - French Academy in Madrid, Spain / 1 year, 2011-2012

Kultur Kontakt – Chancellery of Culture, Viena, Austria / 01/10/2015 – 31/12/2015

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CMMAS-Mexican Centerfor Music and Sound Arts / 1 week, April 2024

Conservatoire Henri Dutilleux Clamart / 2020-2021

IRCAM & United Instruments of Lucilin / 5 weeks during 2018-2019

Ensemble Taller Sonoro & Ibermúsicas - Seville Spain / 7 weeks during 2017-2018

Les Éclats, La Rochelle, France / 2 weeks in October 2016

Composer in residence at the Ensemble Taller Sonoro, Spain (2016-2017)

Composer in residence at the Cie. Éclats, France (2013-2015)

Compagnie Éclats – Bordeaux, France / 1 week, July 2011

Fondation Royaumont (4 sessions of two weeks in 2014-2015)

GRAME – Lyon, France / 1 week, October 2013

GMEM – Marseille, France / 5 weeks in 2013

OARA - Théâtre Molière, Bordeaux - France / 1 week in October 2015

SCRIME, Bordeaux - France / 1 week in July & September 2015

Ensemble Mosaik – Berlin, Germany / 2 sessions of four days, January 2014

Invited Composer at Mixtur Festival – Barcelona, Spain / April 2014

Invited Composer at the Composers Forum University of llinois, EUA (Sept. 2014)

Invited Composer at Ensemble Mise-en Festival 2014, New York - USA

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​PRIZES

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Winner of the "Concours Les Inentendus 2021", France

Selected at the « MATA Festival Call for Works 2018 », New York, USA

Grand Prix des RICA Wissembourg 2016 for Rhizome, Belgique

Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica 2016 for Rhizome, Austria

Special Mention for Rhizome, Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film 2016, Germany

Prix SACEM of the best musical composition for Rhizome, 2015, France

Grand Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival 2015 for Rhizome

Honorific Mention at the festival Multivision 2015 for Rhizome, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Prize for the best musique/sound at the Festival Fantoche 2015 for Rhizome, Switzerland

Prize for the best expérimental videoart at CutOut Festival 2015 for Rhizome, Mexico

Beans Road Prize at the Bucheon Festival 2015 for Rhizome, Corea

Prix André Martin – Festival d’Annecy 2015, France

Winner Kultur Kontakt artist-in-residency program 2015, Austria

Second prize at the Salvatore Martirano Awards 2014, USA

Selected at the « Somelgrup Call for Works 2014 », Spain

Selected at the « Ensemble Mise-en Call for Works 2013 », USA

Winner of the Open Call Mixtur 2013, Spain

Winner of the New Forum Jeune Création Composition Contest 2012

Winner of the Shut Up and Listen! Composition Contest 2012

Prix Georges Wildenstein of the Fine Arts Academy of France 2012

First prize at the Póvoa de Varzim Composition Competition 2011, Portugal

First prize at the Pablo Sorozabal Composition Competition 2011, Spain

Honorific Mention at the American Modern Ensemble Competition 2011, USA

Finalist at the Tinta Fresca Competition of the Philarmonic of Minas Gerais 2011, Brazil

Prize composer in residence at the French Academy in Madrid - Casa de Velázquez 2011

Prize for Orchestral pièce of the Art Mentor Foundation in Lucerne 2011

Second prize at tha Harp Composition Contest - Bloomington Foundation 2010, USA

Prix Rome – Spanish’s Culture Ministry 2010

Phonos Foundation’s Prize for Electronic Music 2010, Spain

Prize artist in residence fo the Kyoto Arts Center 2010, Japan

First prize at the Francisco Escudero Composition Competition 2010, Spain

Prize of orchestral work of the Spanish Auteur Foundation 2009

2 Honorific Mentions BAMDialogue – Nieuw Ensemble Amsterdam Contest 2009

First prize at le Giuseppe Verdi Composition Competition 2009, Italie

Prize of the Cátedra Manuel de Falla 2008, Spain

Finalist at the GRAME Composition Competition 2008, France

KREA – Expresión Contemporánea Foundation’s Prize 2008, Spain

Third Prize at the Franz Joseph Reinl-Stiftung Composition Competition 2007, Austria

Honorific Mention at the Pablo Sorozabal’s Composition Competiton 2007, Spain

Prize of the Cátedra Manuel de Falla 2007, Spain

Public Prize for the best composition at the Festival ENSEMBLIA 2007, Germany

First Prize at the INJUVE Composition Competition 2006, Spain

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