TEC Ensemble was founded as a working ensemble for the Composition Workshops of the Encontres de Compositors, an initiative by composer Maties Far in collaboration with the Encontres de Compositors and the ACA Foundation.

Originally conceived as a platform for the training and specialization of composers based in the Balearic Islands, the project expanded in 2024 to welcome creators from around the world. From the outset, the ensemble has brought together performers and composers dedicated to the study and performance of contemporary music—creation understood both as action and as reflection.

Throughout five consecutive workshops, the group has gradually shaped its identity, defining a sound and a context for artistic creation and performance rooted in the Balearic Islands. Always driven by curiosity and a commitment to learning, TEC Ensemble explores extended techniques and new relationships between sound, science, and nature.

At its core lies a desire to communicate creative processes to audiences, while navigating the complex dialogue with tradition—both the one we inherit and the one we are continuously creating.

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Composer, researcher, saxophonist and professor from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

I have a degree in Music (Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero) and studies in Musical Composition (Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Música Contemporánea). I’m a professor of the Bachelor of Music at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF) and I teach at the Universidad de Palermo (U.P.) in the Area of Artistic and Musical Creation.

My work as a composer encompasses chamber music, mixed media, works for solo instruments, instrumental theatre, film music, sound art, instrumental post-rock, and popular music arrangements. I have received commissions from various instrumentalists, ensembles and institutions. My works have been performed by renowned musicians; presented at various festivals, cycles and concerts in Argentina, Uruguay and the United States.

Within the problems that I address in my compositions, some are technical and are related to compositional procedures and purely musical reflections (an art that speaks of itself) and others are of a philosophical nature and are related to the identity and constitution of the subject in so much dialogue with the Other (culture, society, history, the musical corpus). These problems are interrelated and are reflected, above all, through intertextual relationships and hybrid compositional processes.

In my works I apply various hybridization processes that bring together dissimilar techniques and sound universes. At the same time, I establish intertextual relations both intersemiotic (novels, poetry, paintings, assemblages) and intrasemiotic (elements of jazz, blues, rock or contemporary music).

My aesthetic is defined by a constant search and is usually more full of questions and ambiguities than certainties and absolutes.

Benjamin Maneyrol  
Clarinetist specialized in new musics
Assistant director at Forum de la Création Musicale (belgian composer association), festival Loop and Belgian Music Days
Director of Festival Mosaïques
Based in Brussels - Belgium
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Mexican composer based in Madrid.


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Parsa Zandi – Persian Composer (b. 2004, Tehran, Iran)

Parsa is deeply drawn to the expressive potential of microtonality, blending delicate melodies with rich textures. Intuition and emotion play a central role in his music, guiding a natural balance between structure and expressivity. He strives to create an immersive musical experience where melody and atmosphere come together with sincerity and depth.

He studied composition with Mohammad H. Javaheri and Karen Keyhani in Iran. Parsa later studied composition with Beat Furrer and is now continuing his studies under the supervision of Annesley Black. He was also an Erasmus student at the University of the Arts Berlin (UDK).

Parsa Zandi has had lessons with notable composers such as Chaya Czernowin, Franck Bedrossian, Iris ter Schiphorst, Johannes Maria Staud, Klaus Lang, Mark Andre, Mathias Hinke, Pierluigi Billone, Samir Odeh Tamimi, and Clemens Gadenstätter.

Parsa Zandi's compositions have been performed in several countries, including Austria, Canada, Germany, Iran, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, the USA, and others. His works have been featured in festivals and programs such as Open Call Nodus 2022, Residencia Artística en Les Coves de Vinromà 2022, FestMus 2023 Castello, Impuls Academy 2023, ICCS Young Talents 2023, Roadrunner Academy 2024, ClarinetFest 2024 in Dublin, Brass Academy Musikfabrik 2025, and In Situ Graz. His compositions have been performed by renowned ensembles including Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Zeitfluss, Ensemble für Neue Musik, Contemporary Ensemble & CSMC Brass Band and the Roadrunner Trio. Additionally, musicians like Thomas Piercy, Elena Arbonies Jauregui, Kathryn Vetter, and Mario Porcar Rueda and others, have collaborated with him.

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