Alejandro del Valle-Lattanzio

Born 1986 in Bogotá, Colombia, he attended the German school in the same city. After interrupting piano studies at the Juan N. Corpas University in Bogotá (teachers: Ludmilla Weber – piano, Jorge Sánchez Zorro – music theory) he traveled to Vienna in 2007, where he studied composition and music theory at the University of Music and Performing Arts with Herbert Lauermann and electroacoustic with Karlheinz Essl.

Since then he has been working as a freelance composer in Vienna. His music includes various chamber music formats, solo, multimedial, symphonic and vocal works as well as film music. Two pieces are published by the Universal Edition. He was chosen for the composer-conductor workshop „Ink still wet“ where he conducted his piece for orchestra „Musikmärchen“ with the Tonkünstler Orchester in Lower Austria. He received several prizes and composition commissions such as: Theodor Körner Prize (2012), composition prize of the Young Talent Competition of the German Society for Musical Theory (2012), „Towards the next 100 years“ from the Konzerthaus, Vienna (2012), Ö1 Composition Prize (2013) INÖK / Allegro Vivo (2016) and Jenö Takács Composition Prize (2016).

Statement:

Musical sensibility permeates every aspect of life. It is the way of being, beginning with inner singing and unfolding into countless forms of musical expression. Composing is one of them, and certainly one of my favorites.

The elements of music are simple, yet they carry infinite potential of moving in cycles of complication and simplification. They follow the same mysterious principles as creation itself, which never ceases to variate. As long as being exists, music will not be forgotten.

Our task is to carry forward the understanding that music exists for its own sake—for the glory of God—and as a gift that brings light into our worldly lives. ADVL

Der Sänger muß den prometheischen Weg, den die Menschheit genommen hat, zurückverfolgen, bis er wieder angelangt ist bei seinem alten Gott, der ihm die Stimme gab.

Frederick Hussler

(Photo: Christoph Hornak)