last update: 04.16.2026

2026
The year unfolds as a convergence of theatre, concert work and international collaborations.

At its core, Lady Oscar Salomé continues its stage life in Mexico City, marking an important moment in my work as stage director. In parallel, new music theatre projects emerge, including Harry’s Bar, developed with Nicholas Isherwood as part of an ongoing artistic collaboration.

My music also returns to Portugal through a first collaboration with ars ad hoc, while new works take shape in close dialogue with performers such as Miquel Bernat and Alberto Rosado, leading to a world premiere in Spain.

At the same time, I continue performing the microtonal harp of Julián Carrillo, together with my colleagues Juan Felipe Waller and Andrés Solís, in a concert to be presented at the ALEPH Festival in Mexico City.

This year will also mark my first exhibition at the Museo Carrillo Gil in Mexico City, where I will present a series of graphic scores and sound sculptures, expanding my work into a visual and spatial dimension.

Lady Óscar Salomé (Theatre)

In this project, I join as stage director to a work written and performed by Yuriria Fanjul, with music by Rogelio Sosa. Lady Oscar Salomé unfolds as a space of tension where history, identity and desire intersect through a contemporary perspective.

The work draws on the figure of Oscar Wilde, the presence of Lady Esperanza—his mother—and Salomé, his most iconic play, creating a layered dialogue between biography, fiction and symbolic imagery.

For me, this project represents an important moment in my development as a stage director, exploring the relationship between voice, body and sound within a precise and open scenic structure.

The work is presented in Mexico City in three seasons:
28.03–19.04 · Teatro Orientación, CCB
23.04–03.05 · Teatro El Milagro
21.05–07.06 · Foro Santa Catarina, UNAM

Skulpt — PHACE Ensemble (Vienna)

This project marks my collaboration with PHACE Ensemble in Vienna, one of the leading groups in contemporary music. Skulpt is conceived as a work in which instrumental sound and mechanical elements coexist on stage, forming a single sonic and visual structure.
In this piece, I am interested in exploring continuity, repetition and suspended time, allowing small variations in texture and resonance to shape the listening experience. The presence of mechanical devices expands the ensemble into a hybrid body, where sound is produced, sustained and transformed beyond the traditional gesture of the performer.
The work unfolds as a space of concentration, where precision and fragility coexist, and where the relationship between sound, movement and perception becomes central.
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Premiere: 21 March 2026 · Wiener Konzerthaus, Berio-Saal · Vienna

Harry’s Bar - Nicholas Isherwood

Harry’s Bar is part of The Electric Voice — Nicholas Isherwood, a music theatre project that unfolds around voice, memory and presence. The piece draws from the atmosphere of Venice and the figure of Ernest Hemingway, not as a narrative, but as a space of resonance.

I am interested here in a more intimate dimension of sound — a voice that does not project outward, but remains close, almost internal. Fragments of text, silence and electronic textures coexist, creating a nocturnal landscape where time feels suspended.

More than telling a story, Harry’s Bar moves through states: solitude, memory, and the persistence of being. The performer inhabits this space not as a character, but as a presence — shifting between the personal and the imagined, between the bar, the sea, and the echo of a life lived.
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Premiere: 7–8 April 2026 · Fullerton, USA
26 May 2026 · Berlin, Germany
24–26 September 2026 · Mexico City, Mexico · Cultura UNAM
4 October 2026 · Mexico City, Mexico · Cultura UNAM
October 2026 · London, United Kingdom · Goldsmiths
7 November 2026 · Bologna, Italy
1 December 2026 (TBC) · Berkeley, USA

Trümmerfeld (Debris Field)

Trümmerfeld (Debris Field) is conceived as a field of sound built from friction, weight and residue. Written for percussion quartet, chains and video, the piece explores a landscape in which sound emerges from contact: dragging, striking, resisting.

I am interested in the idea of the “fragment” — not as something broken, but as something that still carries energy. The materials used in the piece, both sonic and visual, suggest a body in transformation: slow, dense, and unstable.
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Rather than constructing a linear form, the work unfolds as a space to inhabit, where time stretches and accumulates, and where each gesture leaves a trace. The performers engage physically with the material, generating a sound that is at once granular and monumental. The presence of Carla Fonseca adds a performative dimension that intensifies the physical and visual character of the work.

World Premiere: 13 February 2026 · Grande Auditório · Portimão, Portugal
Dias da Percussão Portimão
Drumming Grupo de Percussão · direction Miquel Bernat · performance Carla Fonseca
video link

El sueño de la razón produce monstruos

The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters. This work takes its point of departure from Goya’s Los Caprichos, and in particular from the tension between reason and the forces that emerge when it collapses. Rather than illustrating the image, the piece moves through states of instability, density and transformation.

Written for percussion and piano, the work is built on a highly physical and architectural approach to rhythm. Layers accumulate, intersect and fracture, creating a space where control and excess coexist. At moments, the music seems driven by an internal logic; at others, it drifts toward something more instinctive, almost uncontrollable.

I am interested in this threshold — where structure begins to dissolve and something darker, more ambiguous, takes over. The performers inhabit this tension, navigating between precision and risk, between construction and eruption.
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World Premiere: 30 May 2026 · Festival de Sueca · Spain
Miquel Bernat, percussion · Alberto Rosado, piano

NEWs blog - past

2025. Microtonal harp by Julián Carrillo 

On June 4th, I had the privilege of presenting REGRESO A AHUALULCO -  Return to Ahualulco -, my documentary-concert, at a remarkable venue: Ex Teresa Arte Actual in Mexico City.

I performed live on the microtonal harp tuned in sixteenth-tones, created by the visionary Julián Carrillo.
An unforgettable experience, filled with history and deep sonic textures by the recording of the microtonal pianos of Carrillo.
Thank you to everyone who made it possible and to those who shared that moment with me.
Just a few days earlier, on May 24th, I had presented the same work at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), in a production by Música UNAM.
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And a few months before that, the documentary premiered in San Luis Potosí, in a concert produced by the Secretaría de Cultura de San Luis Potosí.
More performances are scheduled throughout 2025 — stay tuned.

New composition course on-line

In this link you will find the topics of the on-line composition course “Configurations of musical creativity” (content in English and Spanish)
LINK Spanish  LINK English

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Documental Retorno a Ahualulco (2025)
now in YouTube

Arturo Fuentes, musica original, guión y dirección. Con Mariana Hijar, Rosario Ochoa y Don Saulo Vidal. Enero 2025.

El compositor mexicano Julián Carrillo (1875–1965) fue un artista de personalidad compleja que logró integrar música y política a lo largo de su vida.

Nacido en Ahualulco del Sonido 13, un pequeño pueblo enclavado en una región semidesértica de San Luis Potosí, Carrillo encontró en su entorno la inspiración que daría forma a su legado más célebre: La teoría del Sonido 13. El Sonido 13 es la subdivisión de la escala tonal en tonos más pequeños llamados microtonos.

Ahualulco del Sonido 13 resguarda las raíces de lo que Carrillo escuchó y vivió. Regresamos a este pueblo siguiendo las pistas sobre los orígenes de su fantasía creativa y su capacidad para romper paradigmas.

24 feb. 2025

La lentezza del single - premiere for oboe

This is a new work dedicated to the oboist Vicente Moronta. It will be premiered in a series of concerts in Switzerland and France. The use of multiphonics that fades into the rhythms, creates a cacophony of colors and a sometimes nervous and sometimes contemplative dramaturgy.

COSMIC SPACE new video (full version)

This work dedicated to the ALEPH Gitarrenquartett to celebrate its 30th anniversary, was premiered in October 2023 at the ZeitGenuss festival, Germany. Now we can see on YouTube the complete version. 

link to buy the score

HEAVY at the 3rd. Zurich Saxfest
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Lars Mlekusch and his saxophone ensemble Zürich saxophone collektive / ZHdK Studierende presented HEAVY, composed in 2015, at the 3rd. Zurich Saxfest (14 April 2024). 

Between stridencies and jazz orchestrations in the style of the nouvelle vague films of the 60's, HEAVY emerges: a work that projects an apparently improvised sound energy, where the saxophone orchestra takes center stage​.
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Arturo Fuentes

Over the past two decades, Arturo Fuentes (an Austrian citizen born in Mexico in 1975) has created a highly diverse catalog of more than one hundred works. A composer and multidisciplinary artist, he has ventured into stage direction, documentary filmmaking and visual art. Based between Mexico and Austria, Fuentes has developed a personal language characterized by the exploration of timbre, silence, the poetics of sound and image, and their scenic possibilities.
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3.02.2026
Portimão, Portugal · Grande Auditório · Dias da Percussão Portimão
Trümmerfeld (Debris Field) (World Premiere)
Drumming Grupo de Percussão · Miquel Bernat · Carla Fonseca

19.02.2026
Nerja, Spain · C.C. Villa de Nerja · IV Contemporary Music Days of Nerja ’26
Alla Duke (Spanish Premiere)
Municipal Wind Band of Málaga · cond. F. Miguel

21.02.2026
Nerja, Spain · C.C. Villa de Nerja · IV Contemporary Music Days of Nerja ’26
Controlador del Universo (Mov. II) (Spanish Premiere)
Provincial Symphony Orchestra of Málaga · cond. J.M. Padilla · perc. Javi Navas

06.03.2026
Montréal, Canada · Espace Orange, Édifice Wilder · La Semaine du Neuf (Le Vivier)
La Cité du son (Canadian Premiere)
Proxima Centauri · Marie-Bernadette Charrier (saxophone)

21.03.2026
Vienna, Austria · Wiener Konzerthaus — Berio Saal
Skulpt (Premiere)
PHACE Ensemble

28.03–19.04.2026
Mexico City, Mexico · Teatro Orientación (CCB)
Lady Oscar Salomé

07–08.04.2026
Fullerton, USA
Harry’s Bar (for voice and electronics), from The Electric Voice — Nicholas Isherwood (World Premiere)

23.04–03.05.2026
Mexico City, Mexico · Teatro El Milagro
Lady Oscar Salomé

01.05.2026
Aveiro, Portugal · Teatro Aveirense · Aveiro_Síntese 2026
Space Factory VI
ars ad hoc · Ricardo Carvalho · Diogo Coelho

16.05.2026
Mexico City, Mexico · UNAM, MUAC · Festival ALEPH
Cartografías rizomáticas del sonido
Juan Felipe Waller · Andrés Solís · Arturo Fuentes
Duration: 1 hr

21.05–07.06.2026
Mexico City, Mexico · Foro Santa Catarina (UNAM)
Lady Oscar Salomé

26.05.2026
Berlin, Germany
Harry’s Bar (for voice and electronics), from The Electric Voice — Nicholas Isherwood

30.05.2026
Sueca, Spain · Festival de Sueca
El sueño de la razón produce monstruos (World Premiere)
Miquel Bernat · Alberto Rosado

14.06.2026
Porto, Portugal · Serralves Museum
Formantes
ars ad hoc · Ricardo Carvalho · Horácio Ferreira · João Casimiro Almeida

24–26.09.2026
Mexico City, Mexico · Cultura UNAM
Harry’s Bar (for voice and electronics), from The Electric Voice — Nicholas Isherwood
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04.10.2026
Mexico City, Mexico · Cultura UNAM
Harry’s Bar (for voice and electronics), from The Electric Voice — Nicholas Isherwood

10.2026
London, United Kingdom · Goldsmiths
Harry’s Bar (for voice and electronics), from The Electric Voice — Nicholas Isherwood

07.11.2026
Bologna, Italy
Harry’s Bar (for voice and electronics), from The Electric Voice — Nicholas Isherwood

01.12.2026 (TBC)
Berkeley, USA
Harry’s Bar (for voice and electronics), from The Electric Voice — Nicholas Isherwood

17 January 2025
Bielefeld, Germany
Frakzionen 2025 - Festival
Zionskirche Bethel, 20h.
Aleph Gitarrenquartett
Cosmic Space (for guitar quartet)

30 January 2025
San Luis Potosí, México
150 aniversario del natalicio de Julián Carrillo
Instituto Potosino de Bellas Artes IPBA
Auditorio del centro de difusión cultural, 19h.
Proyección del documental Retorno a Ahualulco (premiere 2025) YouTube
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26 February 2025
San Luis Potosí, México
Semana de la Atmósfera Auditiva
Sala de Conferencias del IPBA, 18h
Instituto Potosino de Bellas Arte
Proyección del documental Retorno a Ahualulco (2025)
​YouTube

3 March 2025
Lausanne, Switzerland
Haute Ecole de Musique
(HEMU) | BCV Concert Hall, 19h
Société de musique contemporaine Lausanne 
Ensemble Proxima Centauri
La cité du son (saxophone and ensemble)
​Link

27 March 2025
Rocher de Palmer, France
Proxima Centauri ensemble
La cité du son

7 May 2025
Mexico City
Hacia una nueva música Radio UNAM
Entrevista con Ana Lara 
sobre Julián Carrillo
​Link

14.5.2025
Mexico City · Radio UNAM
A. Fuentes
Documental Retorno a Ahualulco
 
22.5.2025
Salzburg · Jazzit
NAMES Ensemble
Don't tell me don't (Premiere)
 
23.5.2025
Zagreb · Zagreb Harp Festival
Elisabeth Plank (harp)
Quimera (for harp)
 
24.5.2025
Mexico City · CCU, UNAM
A. Fuentes, arpa microtonal
Docu. Retorno a Ahualulco
 
24.5.2025
Innsbruck · ORF
NAMES Ensemble
Don't tell me don't
 
28.5.2025
Innsbruck · Triebhaus
Windkraft Ensemble, Kasper de Roo (cond.)
Alla Duke (Premiere)
 
4.6.2025
Mexico City · Ex Teresa
Arturo Fuentes, arpa microtonal
Docu. Retorno a Ahualulco
 
6.6.2025
Milano · @salvimusicit
Elisabeth Plank (harp)
Quimera (for harp)
 
9.6.2025
Tokyo · @ginzajujiya_1874
Elisabeth Plank (harp)
Quimera (for harp)
 
12.6.2025
Vienna · @radiokulturhaus
Elisabeth Plank (harp)
Quimera (for harp)
 
14.6.2025
Mexico City · Palacio de Bellas Artes
CEPROMUSIC Ensemble
Sfikir (for ensemble)
 
26.6.2025
Paris · @instrumentariumparis
Elisabeth Plank (harp)
Quimera (for harp)
 
30.6.2025
Lisbon · Antena 2
H. Portovedo (sax.), V. Stanciu (pno.)
Rimini (Premiere)
 
1.7.2025
London · @salvilondon
Elisabeth Plank (harp)
Quimera (for harp)
 
5.7.2025
Portugal · xxx
Patricia Pinheiro (oboe)
Space Factory III
 
12.7.2025
Vienna · Vienna Harp Days
Elisabeth Plank (harp)
Quimera (for harp)
 
16.7.2025
Pula, Croacia · Crkva Sv. Franje
A. Tellería
Fado (for acc. in mesotonic tun.) (Premiere)
 
26.7.2025
Mexico City · Museo de Antropología
Templum ensemble
Mimik (piano trio)
 
27.7.2025
Alquézar, Spain
A. Tellería
Fado (for acc. in mesotonic tuning)
 
29.7.2025
Mexico City · Instituto Italiano de Cultura
Templum ensemble
Mimik (piano trio)
 
31.7.2025
Mexico City · Fundación Sebastián
Templum ensemble
Mimik (piano trio)
 
1.8.2025
Mexico City · Bellas Artes, Sala M. Ponce
Templum ensemble
Mimik (piano trio)
 
7.8.2025
Nürtingen, DE · Kreuzkirche Gitarrenfestspiele
ALEPH Gitarrenquartett
Cosmic Space
 
15.9.2025
Ciudad Valles, SLP, MX
A. Fuentes, arpa microtonal
Docu. Retorno a Ahualulco
 
17.9.2025
Ahualulco, SLP, MX
A. Fuentes, arpa microtonal
Docu. Retorno a Ahualulco
 
20.9.2025
Mexico City · Radio UNAM
Entrevista con Dulce Huet
Sobre Julián Carrillo
 
11.10.2025
Guanajuato, MX · Cervantino Fest.
London Sinfonietta
New piece (Premiere)
 
21.10.2025
Mexico City · Bellas Artes concert
Quatuor Diotima
New piece (Premiere)
 
23.10.2025
Mexico City · UNAM Festival
Quatuor Diotima
New piece
 
23.10.2025
Vienna · Wiener Konzerthaus
Ens. XXI. Jahrhundert, H. Sorokina
Wirikuta (Premiere)
 
24.10.2025
Guanajuato, MX · Cervantino Fest.
Duplum Duo
New piece (Premiere)
 
25.10.2025
Monterrey
Quatuor Diotima
New piece
 
20.11.2025
S.L.P., MX · El Atrio-Museo Virr.
A. Fuentes, J. Butanda
Electr. Concert (Premiere)
 
26.11.2025
Bragança, PT
Drumming Grupo de Percussão
T-Ressonância residual (Premiere)
 
27.11.2025
Braga, PT
Drumming Grupo de Percussão
T-Ressonância residual

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