Born in Guanajuato Mexico in 1984, Andrés Gutiérrez is a composer as well as an electronic music performer. He began his music studies in his home town then moved to Austria to continue his training at the Joseph Haydn Konservatory and subsequntly at the University of Music and Performing arts Graz. In March 2022, he completed the PhD program in music Composition at the University of California San Diego. His music has been performed by international ensembles such as Divertimento Ensemble (IT), Neue Vokalsolisten Stuttgart (DE), Schallfeld Ensemble (AT), Platypus Ensemble (AT), Ensemble Intercontemporain (FR), Low Frequency Trio (MX), and Line upon Line Percussion (US) in Mexico, Europe, The US, and South Corea, in festivals and Workshops such as Festival Internacional Cervantino, Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez, Voix Nouvelles in Royaumont, Impuls Festival and Academy, International Summer Courses at Darmstadt, ManiFeste, Encontre International de Compositors, and Daegu Festival for Contemporary Music. He’s a founding member of Schallfeld, an ensemble devoted to the performance of contemporary music in Graz, Austria.

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Andres is currently an ACTOR Output Innovation postdoc at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montreal where he will perform research in Timbre and Orchestration.