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COMPOSERS

AURÉLIO EDLER-COPES

Santa Maria/RS

BIOGRAPHY

Brazilian composer and guitarist living in Paris, Aurélio Edler-Copes’s work is recognized for its intensity, dynamism and considerable dramatic force. His artistic research has led him to merge electric and acoustic instruments with analog and digital real-time electronics set-ups.

A highly active creator, he collaborates regularly with prestigious soloists and ensembles (Ensemble Intercontemporain, Klangforum Wien, Musikfabrik, Quatuor Diotima, Quatuor Béla, Nieuw Ensemble, L’Itinéraire, Mosaik, Vortex,  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 de Roma” of the Spanish Foreign Affairs Ministry, and the Georges Wildenstein Prize of the French Académie de Beaux Arts.

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 the GRAME studios in Lyon, GMEM in Marseille, and SCRIME in Bordeaux, as well as the Phonos Foundation in Barcelona and the Royaumont Foundation. At this moment he develops a series of residences at IRCAM in collaboration with the ensemble United Instruments of Lucilin, with premiere at the Festival Manifeste 2020.

Aurélio Edler-Copes earned a bachelor degree in guitar with Daniel Wolff at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 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, Switzerland, and completed his training with Yan Marezs in the Cursus of Composition and Computer Music at IRCAM–Centre Pompidou in Paris.