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Alberto  Carretero  (11.11.1985)  studied

Composition with the Extraordinary Award at the Higher

Music Conservatory of Seville. He holds the Higher

Degree of Computer Science Engineering with the

Extraordinary Award from the University of Seville, the

Higher Degree of History and Music Sciences, the

Postgraduate Course of Composition (Higher Music

Conservatory of Zaragoza), the Higher Degree of

Journalism, the Official Master in Creation and Music Performance and the PhD titled “The process of

Music Composition by means of bio-inspired techniques of Artificial Intelligence”. 

He has obtained the CajaMadrid - “Andaluces del Futuro” Prize, the "Injuve" Contemporary Music

Composition Award, 2nd Antón García Abril Composition Award (Orchestra), 2013 PluralEnsemble Award,

and the "Real Maestranza" Award, handed over by The King of Spain. He has been finalist in the “Niccolò

Castiglioni” Prize (Milano), “San Fedele” Prize (Milano), and “Carmelo Bernaola” Prize (Madrid).

He has worked in specialized international courses in Spain, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium,

Italy, Holland and Poland under the maestros Cristóbal Halffter, Luis de Pablo, José María Sánchez-

Verdú, Mauricio Sotelo, Tomás Marco, José Manuel López López, Hèctor Parra, Jesús Rueda, Elena

Mendoza, Alberto Posadas, César Camarero, Agustín Charles, Eduardo Polonio, Brian Ferneyhough,

Martín Matalón, Beat Furrer, Kaija Saariaho, Philippe Hurel, Salvatore Sciarrino, Stefano Gervasoni,

Helmut Lachenmann, Alessandro Solbiati, Johannes Schöllhorn, Ivan Fedele, Georges Aperghis,

Rebecca Saunders, Chaya Czernowin, Mark André, etc.

His music has been performed at the Carnegie Hall (New York), Grande Salle - Centre Georges

Pompidou (Paris), International Darmstadt Course, National Auditorium of Music (Madrid), Auditorium San

Fedele (Milan), Fonderie Kugler (Geneve), Teatro Central (Seville), International Organ Festival (Leon),

Spanish Music Festival (Cádiz), etc. These compositions have been played by Ensemble Recherche,

Ensemble Experimental Freiburg, PluralEnsemble, Taller Sonoro, dissonArt Ensemble, El Perro Andaluz

Ensemble, Matka Ensemble, Neopercusión, Domenico Melchiorre, Daniel Oyarzábal, Grup Instrumental

de València, Dhamar, Alberto Rosado, Mario Prisuelos, Alfonso Padilla, Cosmos21, S’ensemble, and so

on. His works have also been recorded by the National Radio of Spain, Verso and Radio Círculo.

In the field of new technologies, he has composed electroacoustic music for the International

Biennial of Conterporary Art of Seville, “Noche de los Museos” (Seville), “Noche de los Libros” (Madrid),

“In Sonora” (Madrid) and “Phonos” (Barcelona). He has participated in the 2013 Manifeste Festival –

 Academy (IRCAM), in the 2013 and 2012 Matrix Academy (SWR ExperimentalStudio Freiburg) and in the

2011 DAFX International Conference on Digital Audio Effects in Paris (IRCAM). He has been lecturer at

the International Conference on Music Technology at the University of Seville and teacher at the Royal

Higher Conservatory of Music of Madrid and the Higher Conservatory of Music of Seville.