FELIPE LARA (Sorocaba – SP, 1979)
His music has been presented in Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, the U.S.A., England, Luxembourg and Switzerland, by groups such as Arditti Quartet, Berkshire Symphony, Duo Diorama, International Contemporary Ensemble, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin and New York Miniaturist Ensemble. He studied composition, orchestration and musical computer science with Tristan Murail at Columbia University (USA), and had classes with Brian Ferneyhough, Helmut Ladchenmann, Marco Stroppa, Michael Jarrell, Wolfgang Rihm, and Yan Maresz. He is currently a doctorate at New York University (USA), where he has studied with Louis Karchin, Elizabeth Hoffman and Mario Davidovsky. He was awarded the Staubach Preis (Germany) and had a work ordered by Donaueschingen Musiktage (Germany), with the first presentation due to 2010, under the conduction of Peter Eötvös.