Aurelio Edler-Copes

Aurélio Edler-Copes's work is recognized for its intensity, dynamism and considerable dramatic force. His artistic research has led him to electrify acoustic instruments and merge them with electric instruments in unique electronic setups, which integrate analog and digital in real time, exploring also light and video setups.

​A highly active creator, he collaborates with prestigious soloists and ensembles (Ensemble Intercontemporain, Klangforum Wien, Musikfabrik, United Instruments of Lucilin, Quatuor Diotima, Quatuor Béla, Nieuw Ensemble, L'Itinéraire, Mosaik, Vortex, Taller Sonoro, Orchestras of São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Bilbao, Euskadi, Lorraine, et al.) and has received some thirty international composition prizes, in particular the New Forum Jeune Création Prize, the "Premio Roma" of the Spanish Foreign Affairs Ministry, and the Georges Wildenstein Prize of the French Académie de Beaux Arts.

​He has been composer in residence at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, the Casa de Velázquez–Académie de France in Madrid, and KulturKontakt–Federal Chancellery of Austria, in Vienna. He has also worked in residence at IRCAM, GRAME, GMEM, SCRIME, Phonos Foundation, Royaumont Foundation and with the Ensemble Taller Sonoro, with the support of Ibermúsicas Program. He has been associate composer of the Cie. Éclats. He is co-artistic director of Bazar Électrique and of the Festival Live.Bazar, in Paris.

​In addition to his work as a composer, Aurélio Edler-Copes regularly acts as electric guitarist and performer of electronics in his pieces as well as in the programs that accompany them, thus linking the contemporary repertoire including electric guitar and electronics with his own works. This is the case of his recent collaborations with United Instruments of Lucilin, Ensemble l'Itinéraire, LUX:NM and Bazar Électrique as well in his solo concerts.

​Aurélio Edler-Copes earned a bachelor degree in classical guitar with Daniel Wolff at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul–UFRGS, Brazil, and in composition with Gabriel Erkoreka at the Centro Superior de Música del País Basco–Musikene. He also earned a master's in composition and musical theater with Georges APERGHIS at the Hochschule der Künste Bern–HKB, Switzerland, and completed his training in the Cursus of Composition and Computer Music at IRCAM–Centre Pompidou in Paris. He is teacher of composition and electronic music at the Conservatoire Henri Dutilleux de Clamart, in the south region of Paris.