BELTRAN GONZALEZ composer & conductor
Beltrán Gonzalez is an Argentine composer, conductor, and researcher based in Berlin. His work is concerned with practices of care, approaching composition as a way of engaging with the real in its contradictions, desires, and unstable narratives. Drawing on archival materials, found footage, objects, and bureaucratic texts, he reconfigures fragments of reality not to stabilise meaning, but to open situations in which different temporalities, perspectives, and forms of experience coexist and interfere.
He is currently a PhD candidate at the Kunstuniversität Graz, where his research—Distortion, irony, and blurring: Performing alternative histories through compositional transformations of the real—investigates new narrative strategies in archive-based music.
Since 2025, he has been Artistic Manager of Ensemble Aventure and is co-founder and conductor of the Berlin-based Kollektiv UNRUHE.
His work has been presented internationally by ensembles including Musikfabrik, Riot Ensemble, Black Page Orchestra, Schallfeld Ensemble, Ensemble Ascolta, Vertixe Sonora, and NAMES, among others, and includes a short opera premiered in 2024 at the Staatstheater Kassel. As a conductor, he has collaborated with ensembles such as Vertixe Sonora, FontanaMix, 2k+ Ensemble, Zafraan Ensemble, and Divertimento Ensemble.
In 2025, he was selected for a portrait CD by Edition Zeitgenössische Musik (Deutscher Musikrat), and in 2026 he received the Villa Serpentara Fellowship from the Akademie der Künste Berlin. He has been supported by institutions such as Musikfonds, the Mozarteum Argentino, the Fondo Nacional de las Artes, and the DAAD.
He studied conducting in Argentina and composition at the Universität der Künste Berlin and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.
