Gabriel Santander graduated in Composition from the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid - RCSMM (2009). He has won Composition competitions Flora Prieto (2010) and Clang Cut Book (Berlin, 2013), as well as the call for Ensembles and Composers Vang III (Madrid, 2019) together with Ensemble Komboï.

 

He has attended Composition courses with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Jarrell, José María Sánchez Verdú, and Héctor Parra, as well as Sound Studies seminars with Drs Sabine Sanio, Martin Supper, Sam Auinger and Bernhard Leitner at the Universität der Künste Berlin. He privately studied with Peter Ablinger and has researched on his work since 2010, obtaining a Master’s degree in Music Research from the International University of Valencia - VIU (2021) with his thesis on Ablinger’s Voices and Piano.

 

His vocal and instrumental works have been performed by soloists such as Hajdi Elzeser (Piano), Damir Bacikin (Trumpet), Lina Tur Bonet (Violin), Irene Kurka (Soprano) or Theo Nabicht (Clarinet), and ensembles such as KNM Berlin, Artwork Ensemble, Ensemble Komboï, Taller Sonoro or Grup Instrumental de València. As Interim Professor in Music Theory, he has been actively teaching at Professional Conservatoires in Madrid and VIU since 2018, and he is currently Professor at the RCSMM.