Aurelio Edler-Copes

Brazilian composer living in Paris, Aurélio Edler-Copes's work is recognized for its intensity, dynamism and considerable dramatic force. His artistic research has led him to merge electric and acoustic instruments with analog and digital real-time electronics set-ups.

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 de 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 wit the Ensemble Taller Sonoro with the support of Ibermúsicas Program. He  has been co-founder and artistic director of the Krater Ensemble, associate composer of the Cie. Éclats and composer in residence at  He is co-curator of the new radiophonic concert series Live.Bazar, in Paris.

Aurélio Edler-Copes earned a bachelor degree in 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 Electronics at the Conservatoire de Clamart in the south region of Paris.