Jose Manuel Serrano
Composition studies with Mariano Etkin and María Cecilia Villanueva.He attended classes with Salvatore Sciarrino, Georg Friedrich Haas, Stefano Gervasoni, Tristan Murail, Michael Jarrell, David Lang, Joshua Fineberg, Lee Hyla, Michaël Lévinas and Toivo Tulev, among others.His music has been played in internationally by several ensembles and soloists, including: Quartetto Prometeo (Italy), Ensemble Aleph (France), Ensemble Aventure (Germany), Duo Dillon-Torquati (Italy), L’arsenale Ensemble (Italy), Latvian Radio Choir, East Coast Contemporary Ensemble (USA), Platypus Ensemble (Austria), The Riot Ensemble (UK), Divertimento Ensemble (Italia), Nuntempe Ensamble (Argentina), and Satoko Inoue (Japón).Also his music has been played at international music series and festivals like Tage für Neue Musik (Zürich, 2012); New Directions Festival (Sweden, 2014); “XXIII Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea de la Habana” (Cuba, 2009); Laboratoire Instrumental EUropéen (LIEU; Paris and Riga, 2010); musica aperta series (Winterthur, Switzerland, 2011); L’Imaginaire Festival (Strasbourg, Francia, 2013); Teatro Argentino de La Plata (Argentina, 2012), among others.From 2007 to 2014 he worked as Assistant in Composition with Mariano Etkin at the National University of La Plata.