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Arnau Brichs (2000) is a composer, pianist and producer based between London and Barcelona. He creates music, both live and in the studio, which seeks to integrate the acoustic and electronic sound worlds.
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He studied composition with Rubens Askenar and Helen Grime at the Royal Academy of Music (London) as an ABRSM scholarship holder, graduating with a first-class honours. He has won national and international prizes like the "WCSMS 2019 Promising Young Composers Competition" (USA), the "Eric Coates Prize" (UK), among others.
He co-founded polsfura, an online platform for electronic, hybrid and acoustic music. An avid creative coder, he develops different software components for his own projects, many of which are widely downloaded online (over 4K). The musical groups he has collaborated with include the Uusinta Ensemble (Time of Music Festival in Finland), the Locrian Chamber Players (NYC, USA), the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (Switzerland), the London Contemporary Soloists (performances in Istanbul and London), pianist Rolf Hind (Occupy the Pianos Festival), the Flying Carpet Festival (Kurdistan) or bassoonist Olivia Palmer-Baker. He initially studied jazz with Marina Albero and Chano Domínguez and classical piano with Mireia Datzira at the IEA Oriol Martorell school in Barcelona. As a soloist, he has appeared in venues like the Ateneu Barcelonès, Fundació Joan Miró (Festival Lluerna), CaixaForum Barcelona (Festival Microconcerts), Utopia 46 or at the International Music Festival of Cadaqués. Future events include the release of "Adventures of Resonance", a new piano and electronics conceptual album for Polsfura. |
