Alejandro Cano Palomo

He was born in Fuengirola (Spain) in 1992. At the age of eight, he began to study piano at the Manuel Carra COnservatory in Málaga, where he graduated with the pianists Carlos Melero and Guillermo Carretero. Later, he entered the Superior Conservatory of Music of Málaga in the specialty of composition with the professors Diana Pérez Custodio and Mº Dolores Romero.

Thanks to a European Scholarship, he moved to the Conservatorio di Musica Francesco Morlacchi in Perugia (Italy), where he finished his musical composition studies with the masters Stefano Bracci, Alessio Sabella and Edgar Alandia.

During his musical career, he has premiered works throughout Spain, Italy, Poland, Belgium and Switzerland, and has received courses from composers such as Benet Casablancas, Salvatore Sciarrino, Tristan Murail, Javier Torres Maldonado, José María Sánchez Verdú or Mauricio Sotelo among others.

Interested from a young age in music criticism, he began in his years as a conservatory to write for the specialized magazine EntreNotas, later becoming co-founder and director of the musical magazine 90disonancias, where apart from managing the magazine, he will also participate by performing interviews with the great personalities of music that pass through Andalusia, opinion articles and research, etc. He also collaborated with DiarioSur from Málaga as a music critic during the 2014-2016 seasons.

He is currently President of the Association of COmposers and Interpreters of Malaga (ACIM) and Treasurer of the Federation of Iberian Composers Associations (FAIC). Work that combines with the creation of new works and musical research, participating in symposia and conferences organized by the University of Seville, the University of Málaga or the University of Murcia, while publishing research and analysis articles in various specialized magazines.

After three academic years as a professor of composition fundamentlas at the Francesco Morlacchi Conservatory, he is currently a teacher at the Zamora Conservatory. In 2020, the score of his authoship «La forma de las estrellas» was awarded the 2nd prize at the XXXIO edition of the Young Composers Award SGAE-CNDM.