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Fabià Santcovsky

A composer born in 1989 in Barcelona. In his home city he studied with Gabriel Brnčić and Mauricio Sotelo, and in Stuttgart and Berlin with Marco Stroppa and Daniel Ott. He has written three chamber operas, commissioned by institutions and festivals like the Teatro Argentino de La Plata, the Munich Biennale and the Gran Teatre del Liceu, several orchestral works commissioned or performed by the OBC of Barcelona, the SWR Stuttgart Sinfonieorchester and the Tokyo Philharmonic, and chamber works commissioned by leading festivals llike the Aldeburgh Festival and the New Talents Biennale of Cologne. 

In 2015 he earned 2nd prize in the Japanese Toru Takemitsu Composition Awards and the Wardwell fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation in 2016. In 2021 he was young artist in residence at the Berlin Academy of Arts. While his main work is as a composer, he has also written and devised vocal and stage projects, as well as programming and producing his own electronic work.

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