A composer of sound worlds which invite reflection and shared imagination.

The music of Pablo Peula (*1990, Alhama de Granada) often draws on literary, cinematic, architectural and scientific works. He sees himself as a storyteller who shapes sound and experiments with listeners’ perception. In this quest, his creations make a comprehensive use of compositional resources.

Pablo Peula’s work has received various accolades: a Composition Fellowship from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Art and Culture (2020), the first prize at the 32nd “Juan Bautista Comes” International Choral Composition Competition 2018 (Segorbe), the “Prix de la SACEM” at the 6th International Composition Competition in Boulogne-Billancourt 2017 (France), the first prize at the 7th “RCSMVE” Composition Competition (Granada) or the inclusion in the Young Creation Programme “INJUVE 2016”. He has also received support from institutions such as “Stadt Wien Kultur”, the “La Caixa” Foundation, and the SGAE Foundation.

His music has been commissioned and performed by ensembles and artists such as the Achrome Ensemble (IT), Taller Sonoro (ES), Sigma Project (ES), Webern Ensemble Wien (AT), Ensemble DAI Contemporain (FR), Jane Chapman (UK), Ingmar Stiller (DE), Ignacio Torner (ES), Trio Stimmen (CH), José Luis Estellés (ES) and the Youth Orchestra of Valencia (ES), and has been performed at festivals and venues such as the ORF RadioKulturhaus (Vienna), the Torroella Fringe Festival (Girona), the “Sala Piatti” (Bergamo), the “Salle d’Art Lyrique” (Paris), the “Kunst-Station St. Peter” (Cologne), the Spanish Music Festival (Cádiz), the Suena Festival (Vienna), the “Prix Annelie de Man” Festival (Amsterdam), the Ensems Festival at the Palau de les Arts “Reina Sofía” (Valencia) and the Teatros del Canal (Madrid).

Pablo Peula studied composition in Granada with Francisco González Pastor and in Vienna with Detlev Müller-Siemens, graduating with an Extraordinary Final-Year Award. He has also benefited from the advice and dialogue with composers such as Alfredo Aracil, Pierluigi Billone, Peter Eötvös, Cristóbal Halffter, Dimitri Kourliandski, Ramon Lazkano, Mauricio Sotelo and Simon Steen-Andersen.

He currently serves as a professor of Composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music “Victoria Eugenia” in Granada. As a visiting lecturer, he has taught at other European institutions such as the “Karol Szymanowski” Academy of Music in Katowice (Poland), the “Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst” in Vienna (Austria) or the “Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo” in Porto (Portugal). His works have been published by Piles (Valencia) and Preludio (Milan).