Luis Augusto Da Fonseca: Carl Orff Competition 2018 Wurzel, Worte, Wer?

Luis Augusto Da Fonseca Luis Fonseca was born in Recife, Brazil and kept his interest in composing since his first musical studies, doing it besides his Double Bass career as self-taught and having private lessons as well, when he finally decided to study it as he moved to Madrid, by Prof. Sergio Luque and Prof. Alberto Bernal in the CSKG center, where he could also assist to open lessons from Alberto Posadas, Mesías Maiguashca, Enrique Tomás, José Manuel Berengher and Michael Beil.

These studies were in the electronic field, but after all, learning computer assisted composition as well as algorithmic composition brought him to another way of composing, but not using electronics as a general condition in his works. He finds himself developing new ways of generate music algorithmically and mix it with traditional structures and aesthetics as well. He is nowadays studying a Doctor degree in the algorithmic composition field in the “Universidad Autónoma de Madrid” by José Luis Carles and Sergio Luque. His music has been played in Spain, Brazil, Germany, Australia, United States, Venezuela, Lithuania, Austria, Switzerland and Italy.


Luis Fonseca has a "Honorable Mention" on the "David Walter International Composition Competition 2016" promoted by the ISB (International Society of Bassists/ USA) for his piece "Mandelbrot Sonata" for Double Bass and Piano and his piece “homeTown” for Double Bass, video & electronics was finalist in the MA/IN Composition Competition and presented in the MA/IN Festival in Matera - Italy in December 2016. He has been newly awarded a first prize in the 4th International Competition of Choral Composition “Ennio Morricone” 2017 in Florence - Italy for his piece “Hommage a Rothko” for Choir a Capella.