Composer
Biography:
Jorge E. López was born in Havana (Cuba) in 1955 and has lived in the USA since 1960, growing up in New York City and Chicago. He studied composition with Leonard Stein and Morton Subotnick and music at the California Institute of the Arts from 1971 to 1976, but still describes himself as an autodidact. Its roots lie equally in Western art music, in surrealism (understood as a method), in science and in experiments with the elemental forces of nature. In 1990 López moved to Europe and lived in Oberkärnten (Austria) from 1991 to 2008 and in Vienna since 2008.
From 2000 to 2003 he was a guest artist (image and sound design) at the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM) in Karlsruhe. Both his orchestral works and his chamber music have been performed at festivals and concert halls throughout Europe, e.g. at the Donaueschinger Musiktage, at Wien Modern, in Frankfurt, Cologne, Berlin and Salzburg. He was supported by the Berlin Academy of Arts, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, the Paul Sacher Foundation, the Heinrich Strobel Foundation of Südwestfunk and an Austrian state scholarship.
In 2012, as part of musica viva, the Symphony fleuve for horn and orchestra with Carsten Duffin and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Peter Eötvös. On December 13, 2013, also with the BR Symphony Orchestra, the world premiere of his Third Symphony under Brad Lubman and in 2016 the premiere of the Fourth Symphony with the RSO Vienna under Cornelius Meister. A concerto for bass trumpet and orchestra is now complete.
Albums:
Combat Actions/Dream Actions Op. 11 – II. Chamber Symphony Op. 23 “A végső Tavasz”:
