Sergio Luque

Sergio Luque is a Mexican composer of vocal, instrumental and electroacoustic music based in Madrid. His music has been performed by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Les Jeunes Solistes, Garth Knox, the Nieuw Ensemble and the Schönberg Ensemble, among others, and has been presented in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, the United States, Mexico, Cuba, El Salvador, Chile, Argentina, Japan and Australia. He has given lectures and workshops in Barcelona (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya), Berlin (Technische Universität and Universität der Künste), Buenos Aires (Centro Cultural cheLA), Cologne (Universität Köln), The Hague (Royal Conservatory), London (Goldsmiths, University of London), Madrid (Medialab Prado and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía), Mexico City (Centro Nacional de las Artes) and Morelia (Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras). He has received grants and prizes from the University of Birmingham, the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (Mexico), Centre Acanthes (France) and the Schönberg Ensemble. He has a PhD in Musical Composition from the University of Birmingham, where he studied with Jonty Harrison and Scott Wilson, and was a member of BEAST (Birmingham Electroacoustic Sound Theatre). During his PhD, he worked on the development of Iannis Xenakis’s stochastic synthesis and of the BEASTmulch software (a tool for the presentation of electroacoustic music over multichannel systems). In 2006, he received a Master's Degree with Distinction in Sonology, with specialization in Composition, from the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, studying with Paul Berg and Kees Tazelaar. In 2004, he received a Master's Degree in Composition from the Conservatory of Rotterdam, studying with Klaas de Vries and René Uijlenhoet. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Composition from the Musical Studies and Research Center (CIEM, Mexico), where he studied with Ma. Antonieta Lozano, Alejandro Velasco, Vincent Carver and Víctor Rasgado. From 2000 to 2003, he studied Composition with Ignacio Baca Lobera. He has participated in masterclasses with Klaus Huber, Luca Francesconi, Toshio Hosokawa and Jukka Tiensuu.