Eduardo Soutullo García began his musical education at the «Conservatorio Superior de Música de Vigo». Later on, he moved to Madrid and to Paris completing his studies in Piano, Music Theory, Harmony and Composition.
He has studied musical composition with David del Puerto, Jesús Rueda, José Luis de Delás (Köln Conservatory), Isabelle Duha (Conservatoire d´Issy les Molineaux-PARIS XIII), Richard Steinitz (Huddersfield University) and with Cristobal Halffter and Tomás Marco (Villafranca del Bierzo, Spain).
Master’s Degree «La música en España e Hispanoamérica: métodos y técnicas actuales de investigación «at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Doctorat (PhD) in Universidad de Vigo (thesis about spanish contemporary music)
Superior Professor by Santiago de Compostela Conservatory of Music.
He has been professor at the Conservatory of Vigo and Conservatory of Ourense (Spain).
PRIZES AND MENTIONS,
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- First Prize «VII Composition Competition New Note – CROATIA 2018» – Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra at – 43rd Samobor Music Festival
- Finalist «RED NOTE New Music Festival Composition Competition U.S.A.» ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHETRA (November 2018)
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- Honourable Mention in LUTOSLAWSKI AWARD 2007, (Warsaw, december 17, 2007). -chairman of the jury, Zygmunt Krauze
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- Finalist at INTERNATIONAL PROKOFIEV COMPETITION (St. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, april 2008), -chairman of the jury, Rodion Shchedrin
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- Third Prize International Composition Competition ITALY 150 with the composition «Enxet» (President of jury, Magnus Lindberg)
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- Third Prize International Composition Competition AUDITORIO NACIONAL with the composition «Erfahrung und sonst nichts» –Fundación BBVA (President of jury, Tristán Murail)
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- Finalist at GESAMT projetc organized by filmaker LARS VON TRIER with Copenhagen Art Festival, the Danish Film Institute and Zentropa
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- Finalist at XXVI QUEEN SOFIA PRIZE 2008 (in Youtube)
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- FIRST PRIZE in «CIUTAT DE TARRAGONA» INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR MUSICAL COMPOSITION 2005 (member of the WFIMC – World Federation of International Music Competitions)
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- FIRST PRIZE in “7th MANUEL VALCÁRCEL INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPOSITION COMPETITION” (Marcelino Botín Foundation). The work has been premiered by Ananda Sukarlan in SANTANDER INTERNATIONAL PIANO 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).
His orchestral works have been conducted by important figures such as Jacques Mercier, Hannu Lintu, Olli Mustonen, Adrian Leaper, Carlo Rizzi, Marco Angius, Pietro Rizzo, Tommy Andersson, Paul Daniel, Patrick Davin, Josep Caballé Domenech, Jose Miguel Perez Sierra, Jose Luis Temes,, Josep Pons, Alexix Soriano, Victor Pablo Pérez, Antoni Ros-Marbá, Carlos Miguel Prieto,, etc, and performed by symphonic orchestras like Orchestre National de Lorraine (Francia), Orquesta Sinfónica de la Radio de Suecia, Orquesta Sinfónica de San Petersburgo, Orquesata Nacional de España, Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Orquesta Sinfónica de Barcelona y Nacional de Cataluña, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Orquesta de Extremadura, Orquesta Real Filharmonía de Galicia, etc, and also by ensembles like Plural Ensemble, Cuarteto Breton, Grup Instrumental de Valencia, Orquesta de Cámara del Auditorio de Zaragoza, Choeur L´Echelle, Orchestra da Camera di Matera, Taller Sonoro (Sevilla), Drumming (Oporto) , etc, and soloist like Ananda Sukarlan, Oleg Malov, Adam Levin, José Luis Estellés, Gustavo Díaz-Jerez, Miquel Bernat, etc.
He has received commissions from Auditorio Nacional de España, Fundación Isaac Albéniz, Fundación Autor, XXVII Festival de Alicante, 51ª Semana de Música Religiosa de Cuenca, XII Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea Tres Cantos, XXVI Festival de Música Española de Leon, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Orquesta Real Filharmonía de Galicia, Caixa Catalunya, Residencia de Estudiantes de Madrid, Festival Via Stellae, etc.
HIs works has been performaed at L´Arsenal (Metz, Francia), Berwaldhallen Concert Hall (Estocolmo), Glazunov Hall (San Petersburgo), Carnegie Hall (Weill Hall), New York (EEUU), Alto-Musiktheater Essen (Alemania), Auditorio NAcional de España, Palacio Euskalduna, Auditorio Ciudad de León, Teatro Auditorio San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Instituto Cervantes (Hamburgo), L´Auditori, Barcelona, Palau de la Música de Valencia, Gran Auditorio del Centro Cultural de Belem (Lisboa), Auditorio Nacional de España, Auditorio Manuel de Falla (Granada), Teatro Monumental de Madrid, Gran Teatro de Cáceres, Auditori Camp de Mart (Tarragona), Palacio de Congresos de Badajoz, Teatro Gayarre (Pamplona), Auditorio de Galicia, Palacio de la Ópera (Coruña), Sala Sugia (Casa da Música / Oporto) etc.
He has been selected as guest composer in the workshop “Ateliers de composition acanthes” Metz (Concours de la Ville de Paris). The lecturers were Wolfgang Rihm, Pascal Dusapin, Tosio Hosokawa, Georges Aperghis, Gérard Pesson, Michael Jarrell and Yan Maresz