Saúl Chapela: Diabelli-Contest 2014

Saúl Chapela Saúl Chapela is a spanish composer and pianist, born 27 May 1988 in the seaside village of Moaña. He holds two Bachelor of Music degrees from the "Conservatorio Superior de Música de Vigo”, where he studied with Nicasio Gradaille, Pablo Galdo and Carlos Cambeiro. Also, nowadays he's doing a Master of Music in Composition at the “Hochschule für Musik und Theater München”, where he studies with Jan Müller-Wieland and Hans-Jürgen von Bose.

As a composer, he won the first international prize “Boston GuitarFest Composition Competition, 2012” (“Catarsis” for guitar) and the first prize “I Composition Competition Manuel Quiroga, 2013” (“Old Leaves” for violin and string orchestra). His works have been presented in several concert cycles: "Junge Solisten. Siemens Stiftung", "Winners and Masters. Kulturkreis Gasteig" and "Virtuosos de la Guitarra. Instituto Cervantes" in Munich, "Erfolgreiche Stipendiaten. Ritter-Stiftung" in Hamburg, "Hochschule der Künste" in Bern, "Sibelius Academy" in Helsinki...