jan-philip schulze, wdr sinfonieorchester köln, peter rundel
(released on mode records)

clouds and sky

new album out 06.06.25 https://murmurs-at.bandcamp.com/album/at-eventide

composer
pianist

When distorted/old recordings have this special sound... that is almost impossible to imitate.

Maximiliano A. Soto Mayorga (b. 1991, Santiago) is a Chilean-born composer who received his Bachelor's degree in composition in Universidad de Chile and his Master's and Konzertexamen degrees in HfM Freiburg, Germany. He studied with Rafael Díaz, Jorge Martínez and Johannes Schöllhorn and received additional training in masterclasses with renowned composers such as i. a. Georges Aperghis, Brice Pauset, Annesley Black, Ramon Lazkano, Eunhwa-Cho, Bernard Cavanna and Luca Belcastro. 

Soto Mayorga has received numerous awards and commissions, including the Ibero-American Composition Prize "Ibermúsicas" 2023, the prize "Ad Libitum 2022" of the festival Sommer in Stuttgart, the prize and commission "TONALi20" (Patroness Sofia Gubaidulina), the DAAD Prize, the Composition Prize of the Chilean Academy of Fine Arts "Carlos Riesco" and of the Chilean Copyrights Society (SCD) "Pulsar". He has been a grantee of the Ibermúsicas Residency 2020 (London), of the German Federal Culture and Media Commission Grant (2021), and of the Fanjul&Ward Foundation (2022).

His works have been commissioned and premiered by various institutions such as  i.a. the Deutschlandfunk, Netzwerk Neue Musik, Mehrklang Freiburg e.V., the Slovene Institute for Research in Art, Critical Thought and Philosophy ".abeceda"; and ensembles such as i.a. the SWR Orchester, Ensemble Aventure, LJE Neue Musik Ba-Wü. His work "Figures in Frost" has been published by Boosey & Hawkes. Soto Mayorga's music has been performed at festivals such as Forum Neue Musik 2022 (Germany, Sommer in Stuttgart 2022, Ensems 42 (Spain), Nuntempa 7 (Mexico), Prismas (Chile/Argentina/Peru), and concerts in Europe (Spain, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Ukraine, Slovenia), America (Chile, Perú, Argentina, México) and Japan.

Das Wort » spielen « ist sehr schön, da das Spielen eines Instrumentes eins mit ihm sein muss. Wer nicht mit dem Instrument spielt, spielt es nicht. - R. Sch.