BELTRAN GONZALEZ composer & conductor
Beltrán Gonzalez is an argentine composer, conductor, curator and researcher. In his compositions he frequently combines contextual materials such as archives, objects, found footage, and bureaucratic texts with purely instrumental elements aiming to an essayistic music, that can provide a new glance to often forgotten aspects of contemporary life.
After finishing his conducting diploma in Argentina (UNLP), he moved to Berlin in order to continue his education in the field of contemporary music, studying at Universität der Künste-Berlin and at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Paris. He is currently a PhD Candidate at Kunstuniversität Graz, focusing his research on new narratives in archive-based music.
Since March 2025 he is Artistic Manager of Ensemble Aventure. He is also co-founder and conductor of Kollektiv Unruhe, a Berlin-based new music group.
He has participated in festivals like Music Biennale Zagreb, Sommer in Stuttgart, Accademia Chigiana, Impuls-Graz, Podium Esslingen, Performing Arts Festival Berlin, DistatTerra, MehrlichtMusik!, crescendo 2021, Festival de Música de Campos do Jordao, Mixtur Festival, Monat der Zeitgenössischen Musik 2021 and Nordic Saxophone Festival.
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Collaborating with ensembles such as Musikfabrik, Riot Ensemble, Black Page Orchestra, Schallfeld Ensemble, Ensemble Ascolta, Vertixe Sonora, Broken Frames Syndicate, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester, Sonar Quartet, Quartetto Prometteo, Ensemble ilinx, Quartetto Maurice, FontanaMix & The Present Ensemble between others. His first short-opera was premiered at the Staatstheater Kassel.
He was selected for a portrait CD by Edition Zeitgenössische Musik (Deutsche Musikrat & WERGO) in 2025.
As a conductor he has collaborated with the Mar del Plata Symphonic Orchestra, Entre Rios State Orchestra, Tucuman State Orchestra, University of Tucumán Orchestra, Vertixe Sonora, Kollektiv Unruhe, FontanaMix & Ensemble ilinx between others.
He has been awarded with scholarships from Musikfonds; Argentinean Mozarteum; Fondo Nacional de las Artes-Argentina, and the Ad Infinitum/Lucia Löser/DAAD Stiftungen.