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Eduardo Soutullo is a Spanish composer. He was the recipient of the Spanish Ministry of Culture's National Prize in Music (composition) in 2023. The jury awarded the prize to Soutullo for "the unanimous international recognition of his music especially his orchestral production, highlighting the premiere in Saint Petersburg of his antiwar cantata "The lament of sunflowers”.

Life

He began his musical education at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Vigo. Later, he moved to Madrid and to Paris completing his studies in Harmony and Composition with Isabelle Duha (Conservatoire d'Issy les Molineaux-Paris XIII)

Eduardo Soutullo

He has studied musical composition with David del Puerto, Jesús Rueda, (Köln Conservatory), Richard Steinitz (Huddersfield University) and with Cristobal Halffter and Tomás Marco (Villafranca del Bierzo, Spain).

Eduardo Soutullo

He has a master's degree from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and has a Doctorat (PhD) from the Universidad de Vigo (thesis about Spanish contemporary music)

Eduardo Soutullo

He has been a professor at the Conservatory of Vigo and Conservatory of Ourense (Spain).

He has been composer in residence at Spanish Academy in Rome in the course 2019-2020

In February 2022, after the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, he began the composition of Threnus Helianthuses (The lament of sunflowers, a direct reference to Ukraine's national flower), a vocal-symphonic work whose lyrics are anti-war verses of the prominent Ukrainian poetess Lesya Ukrainka (1871-1913) translated into English. He submits the score to the "XVI Open composers competition named after Andrey Petrov" held in Saint Petersburg. Against all odds, the work is selected as a finalist and gets its premiere on September 15, 2022 at the Grand Hall of the St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonic by the St.Petersburg Symphony Orchestra winning the third prize of the competition

He is also the author of the novel "Olozábal, el último zarzuelista, en el Madrid de la movida" published on Amazon () and Smashwords ()

He is also the author of several documentaries such as Film me (on Cuba) winner of awards at international festivals such as CinemAmbiente (Torino, Italy) and Festival International de Programs Audiovisuels (FIPA, Biarritz, France)

Style

Musicologist Robert Fallon has written, "Eduardo Soutullo's triptych All the Echoes Listen, But in Vain and They Hear no Answering Strain, dedicates each movement to Messiaen, Takemitsu and Grisey. Melodies in All the Echoes Listen have the "Chant d'extase" contour and They Hear no Answering Strain sounds a five-note descending octatonic scale in strings much like Le tombeau resplendissant."

Awards and honors

Spanish Ministry of Culture's National Prize in Music (composition) 2023

First Prize "X Edition of the AEOS-BBVA Foundation Composition Prize" (Spanish Association of Symphony Orchestras) First Prize "VII Composition Competition New Note – Croatia 2018" – Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra – 43rd Samobor Music Festival First Prize "Lawson-May Award for Composition 2020" (Solent Music Festival, Lymington, United Kingdom) Third Prize "XVI Open composers competition named after Andrey Petrov" (St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonic) Finalist "RED NOTE New Music Festival Composition Competition - Illinois State University Symphony Orchestra (November 2018) Honourable Mention in Lutoslawski Award 2007, (Warsaw, December 17, 2007), Chairman of the jury, Zygmunt Krauze Finalist at International Profofiev Competition (St. Petersburg, April 2008), Chairman of the jury, Rodion Shchedrin Third Prize International Composition Competition ITALY 150, Chairman of the jury, Magnus Lindberg) Third Prize International Composition Competition Auditorio Nacional - Fundación BBVA, Chairman of the jury, Tristán Murail. Finalist at GESAMT project organized by filmmaker Lars von Trier with Copenhagen Art Festival, the Danish Film Institute and Zentropa Finalist at XXVI Queen Sofía Composition Prize 2008 with his PIano Concerto First Prize in "Ciutat de Tarragona International Award for Musical Composition" in 2005. First Prize in "7th Manuel Valcárcel International Piano Composition Competition" (Marcelino Botín Foundation). The work has been premiered by Ananda Sukarlan in Santander International Festival, August 2008 He has been one of the three composers selected to represent Spain at the World Music Days 2009 ( ISCM / International Society of Contemporary Music).