Originally from Curitiba, Brazil, resident composer Igor Santos comes to the 2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival by way of Chicago, where he recently earned his PhD in music composition from the University of Chicago.

Before that, Santos received his M.A. from the Eastman School of Music, where he was an active member of the Ossia New Music group, assisting in organizing and promoting concerts of contemporary music.

He earned his B.M. in composition and electronic music from the University of South Florida, also serving as a board member and pianist for the USF Composer’s Consortium.

Santos has written a new work for the MICF called “through thoughts of a different kind,” which will be premiered by resident ensemble Alarm Will Sound along with new music from the other six resident composers at the fest’s grand finale on Saturday, April 28 at the Missouri Theatre.

Santos’ music has been performed by groups such as eighth blackbird, Ensemble Intercontemporain, POING, Ensemble Dal Niente, Spektral Quartet and The Florida Orchestra. He also frequently writes incidental theater music in collaboration with director David Frankel and the Tampa Repertory Theatre.

He has participated in workshops and festivals such as Impuls in Graz, Austria; Time of Music in Viitasaar, Finland; ManiFeste and Fontainebleau in Paris, France; Synthetis in Radziejowice, Poland; Brevard Music Center in North Carolina; and more.

In 2017, Santos won first prize in the Luigi Nono International Composition Competition, and also was awarded a prize for “Best Sound Design” from Theatre Tampa Bay.

For more about Igor Santos, listen to his recent interview on Classical 90.5 FM’s “Mizzou Music” program.

“towards snow,” performed by the Volta Trio, and Joseph Yungen on April 6, 2011 at the Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Hall

“Étude nº 1,” recorded live by Winston Choi on May 10, 2015 as part of the Project Incubator concert at Constellation Chicago