Claudia Sofía Alvarez (1991) Peruvian composer whose music seeks to explore the power of sound in the human experience, investigating sound aspects such as timbre, texture, rhythm and gesture in vocal, instrumental and acousmatic contexts.
Her latest works have been performed in France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Slovenia, Romania, Spain, Denmark, USA, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Colombia and Perú in concerts, festivals and workshops such us 2023 Manifeste Festival del IRCAM (FR), 2023 Arco Academy (FR), 2023 .abeceda Contemporary Music Festival (SI), 2023 Festival de Música Contemporánea i nova creació (ES), Hamburg Dialogues IV (DEU), 2022 Heroines of Sound Festival (DEU), 2023 Festival Experimenta (PE), Fresh Squezeed Opera Vocal Lab 2022 (US), Remus Georgescu International Festival (RO), Festival Mixtur - Composition and Sound Exploration workshop (ES), 2022 Women Composers Festival of Hartford University (US), III Festival Expresiones Contemporáneas 2021 (MX), 2021 International Young Composers Academy in Ticino (CH), Rhymes with Opera “Pocket Opera Workshop 2020” (US), LunArt Festival 2019 (US), etc.
Her works have been performed by ensembles such us Ensemble Intercontemporean (FR), Ensemble Multiláterale (FR), KNM Berlin Ensemble (DEU), Tana Quatour (FR), Ictus Ensemble (BE), .abeceda [new music ensemble] (SI), Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra (US), Fresh Squeezed Opera (US), Filarmonica Banatul Timișoara Female Choir (RO), Rhymes with Opera (US), Syntagma Piano Duo (ES), Lux Nova Duo (DEU), Brno Philharmonic (CZ), Cuarteto Move (MX), Quinteto de vientos La Serena (CL), Naz Dúo (PE), Paqari Camerata (PE), Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (PE), etc.
Her music has been included in albums such as ABLAZE Records Pierrot Ensemble Series Vol. 4, performed by Brno Philharmonic soloists (CZ), TIERRA: Acousmatic works of Women Composers of the National University of Music of Peru, with which she has given several live electronic performances and DOS: Electroacustic music of Peruvian Composers of the National University of Music of Peru, to be lauched in March 2024.
She holds a Bachelor's degree in Music Composition at the National University of Music in Peru, under Mag. Nilo Velarde. Also, she has been part of international educational programs where she has attended private lessons and workshops with Francesco Filidei (IT), Yann Robin (FR), Edith Canat de Chizy (FR), Mauro Lanza (IT), Martin Matalon (AR/FR), Sarah Nemstov (DEU), Henri Foures (FR), Oscar Bianchi (CH/IT), Eva Reiter (AUT), Valerie Coleman (US), Justé Janulyté (LT/IT), etc.
Since last year she has also dabbled in the performance and improvisation of electronics and live processed voice, participating in the concert "Interacciones" together with Passepartout Duo (IT/US) and in the 2022 Heroines of Sound Festival (Germany) together with the KNM Berlin Ensemble. (DEU) and, in solo format, in the "Antiradio 3" organized by La Trenza Sonora, in "Las artes invaden Palacio" of the Municipality of Miraflores and the presentations of the album TIERRA at the C.C. Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, at the FAS Arts Fair in the Plazuela de las Artes of the Municipal Theater of Lima, IV Novtec – Digital Culture Festival held at the Alianza Francesa de Lima and the Sound Week 2023.
Her recent achievements include been Composer in Residence 2023 of the .abeceda [new Music ensemble], supported by Ministry of Culture in Slovenia, who premiered two of her pieces in Slovenia, been selected in Circuito Abierto: Modular Synthesis Residency 2023 of the National University of Music (Perú) and been selected to participate in educational programs such us: Manifeste Academy 2023 of IRCAM (FR), where she premiered a piece in Paris by Ensemble Intercontemporian (FR); 9th Barcelona Modern International Composition Course (ES), where she premiered a piece in Barcelona by Ensemble Multilatérale (FR); and Arco Academy 2023 where she premiered a piece in Marseille by Tana Quatour (FR) and Ensemble Multilatérale (FR).
She is also co-founder of the first collective of Peruvian female composers: Retama.