Compositor

Nota Biográfica

[EN] Composer in residence at the Center Henri Pousseur (2014), IRCAM (2015), member of the Academy of France in Madrid-Casa de Velazquez (2016/17), composer in residence at the Art Zoyd Music Creation Center, member of the Académie de France in Rome-Villa Médicis for the year 2017/18, he is actually composer in residence at the National Orchestra of Peru.

Juan Arroyo was born in Lima, Peru. He studied composition at the Conservatories of Lima, Bordeaux and at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris. He deepens his musical knowledge in formations like Voix Nouvelles and the IRCAM. He has been guided by eminent composers such as Allain Gaussin, Brian Ferneyhough, Heinz Holliger, Henri Pousseur, Jean-Yves Bosseur, Luis Naón, Mauricio Kagel, Michael Levinas, and Stefano Gervasoni.

His music is rewarded with numerous awards such as the prize of the Salabert Foundation (2013) and the prize of the Academy of Fine Arts of France (2015). He receives prestigious commissions from the French Ministry of Culture, Radio France, Centre Henri Pousseur, SACEM, Proxima Centauri and Tana string quartet. His works are performed by eminent musicians such as Ensemble Intercontemporain, L’Itinéraire, Linea, LAPS, L’Arsenale, Regards, Sonido Extremo, Orquesta Nacional de Perú, Vertixe Sonora, Claude Delangle, Jeanne Maisonhaute, Antonio Politano and Maribé Charrier. His music is performed at great festivals such as Ars Musica, Cervantino, La Chaise-Dieu, Ensems and ¡Viva Villa!

His work of composition is articulated around the Magical Sound Realism through the different techniques of sound hybridization. In fact, in 2014, he began a fundamental stage of his artistic work with the construction of new instruments capable of transmuting his sound, the TanaInstruments. This allowed him to hybridize the perceptual indices of sounds in order to reveal their evocative and irrational nature of their substance, sometimes making them enigmatic.

The uniqueness of his work lies in these games of displacement, of movement between a causal listening and a reduced listening, passing through many intermediate states of perception. Juan Arroyo explores these different degrees gradually blurring the sources of sound in the manner of a photographer or cameraman, making us travel from the concrete to the abstract, from materiality to immateriality, playing with the configuration of its objective.

[PT] Compositor em residência no Centro Henri Pousseur (2014), IRCAM (2015), Cité Internationale des Arts (2015), Membro da Academia de França em Madrid – Casa de Velazquez (2016), no Centro de Criação Musical Art Zoyd (2017), membro da Académie de France em Roma – Villa Médicis (2017). Juan Arroyo é actualmente o compositor convidado da Orquestra Nacional do Peru, co-director artístico e maestro do conjunto Regards, co-director artístico do Festival Sonomundo, curador do festival Experimenta no Grande Teatro Nacional do Peru, professor no conservatório d’Argenteuil e membro do Conselho Artístico da Casa de Velásquez.
Juan Arroyo nasceu em Lima, Peru. Estudou composição nos Conservatórios de Lima, Bordéus e no Conservatório Nacional de Música e Dança de Paris. Aprofunda os seus conhecimentos musicais em formações como Voix Nouvelles e o IRCAM. Foi orientado por compositores eminentes como Allain Gaussin, Brian Ferneyhough, Heinz Holliger, Henri Pousseur, Jean-Yves Bosseur, Luis Naón, Mauricio Kagel, Michael Levinas e Stefano Gervasoni.
A sua música tem sido distiguida com vários prémios, como o prémio da Fundação Salabert (2013), o prémio da Academia de Belas Artes de França (2015) e o prémio de composição Ibermusicas (2022). Recebe encomendas do Ministério da Cultura francês, da Radio France, do Centre Henri Pousseur, da SACEM e da Donaueschinguen Musiktage. As suas obras são interpretadas por músicos como Ensemble Intercontemporain, L’Itinéraire, Linea, LAPS, L’Arsenale, Proxima Centauri, Sonido Extremo, Orquestra Nacional do Peru, Vertixe Sonora e Tana Quartet. A sua música é apresentada em grandes festivais como Ars Musica, Présences, Cervantino, La Chaise-Dieu, Ensems e ¡Viva Villa!
O seu trabalho de composição gira em torno da hibridação sonora. Em 2014, iniciou uma etapa fundamental do seu trabalho artístico com a construção de novos instrumentos capazes de transmutar o seu som, os TanaInstruments. Isto permitiu-lhe hibridar as pistas perceptivas dos sons para revelar a natureza evocativa e irracional da sua substância, tornando-os por vezes enigmáticos.