Teachers
David del Puerto
Born in Madrid in 1964, he initially studied guitar with Albert Potin and harmony with Jesús María Corral, later composition with Francisco Guerrero and Luis de Pablo.
Professionally dedicated to music since the early 1980s, at just over 20 years old, his name stood out at the Almeida Festival in London, and shortly after, he received a commission from Pierre Boulez to write a new work for the Ensemble InterContemporain. Since then, his music has been featured in the most important festivals and concert seasons in Europe, Asia, and America, performed by renowned conductors, soloists, ensembles, and orchestras.
His catalog includes around 170 works across all genres to date, with highlights including three operas, five symphonies, one ballet, numerous concertos for soloist, and an important body of work for guitar (solo, concertante, classical, electric, etc.).
He has also had an intense teaching career as a guest professor at universities and conservatories in Spain, Europe, Latin America, and the United States. He is currently a professor of Analysis and Harmony at the Reina Sofía School of Music and Composition at the Katarina Gurska Higher Center in Madrid.
In 1993, he won the Gaudeamus Prize in Amsterdam with his Concerto for Oboe and Chamber Ensemble, and the same year, he received the El Ojo Crítico Award from Radio Nacional de España. In 2005, he was awarded the National Music Prize in the composition category for his career, especially for the premiere of his Symphony No. 1, “Boreas”, commissioned by the 2005 Canary Islands Festival.
In the 1999-2000 season, he was composer-in-residence with the Spanish National Youth Orchestra, for which he composed the works Mito and Fantasía Segunda.
In the 2011-2012 season, he was composer-in-residence with the Spanish National Orchestra and Choir and the National Center for the Dissemination of Music, to develop the educational project Todos creamos, in collaboration with Sagunto School, Ramiro de Maeztu Institute, and soloists from the National Dance Company. The project culminated in the successful premiere of the show Simbiosis in May 2012 at the National Auditorium of Music.
He is a guitarist and composer of the ensemble rejoice!, with which he premiered the show Sobre la noche, the ballet Carmen replay (commissioned by the Royal Theatre), and the concert evening Caro Domenico (commissioned by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura).
His music has been released on over thirty albums, nine of them monographic.
Dozens of academic papers and specialized articles have been published on his work, including three doctoral theses by Jeremy Bass (University of Kentucky), Ángel Luis Castaño (University of Extremadura), and Eduardo Soutullo (University of Vigo).
