Biography
Irene Galindo Quero completed her composition studies at the Conservatorio Superior Granada with Pedro Guajardo in 2007. As a scholarship holder of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and La Caixa-DAAD, she studied composition at the Freiburg University of Music with Prof. Cornelius Schwehr and Mathias Spahlinger and completed a master's degree with Prof. Johannes Schöllhorn in Cologne in 2014.
Her works have been performed by numerous European ensembles, such as the Ensemble Modern, Trio Catch, and EnsembleKollektiv Berlin, and presented at renowned festivals. Galindo's compositions have been awarded several scholarships and prizes, including the Berlin-Rheinsberg Composition Prize (2019) and the Composition Prize of the State Capital Stuttgart (2023). In 2012, she spent six months in Mumbai as an artist-in-residence for the NRW Kunststiftung and the Goethe Institute, and since then has been studying Hindustani music (sarod) with Pandit Brij Narayan.
Since 2024, she has been head of the composition program at the Bern University of the Arts.
(Source: https://www.bfh.ch/de/aktuell/medienmitteilungen/2024/irene-galindo-quero-leiterin-komposition-hkb/)
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