BIOGRAPHY

Lautaro Mura Fuentealba is a versatile conductor and a prominent exponent of the new generation of Chilean orchestral conducting. Lautaro has worked with orchestras and ensembles such as Theater Bonn, Ensemble Modern, Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Bergische Symphoniker, International Ensemble Modern Academy, Ensemble New Babylon, Kollektiv 3:6 Köln, Ensemble Consord (Germany), Vertixe Sonora (Spain), Ensemble Vortex (Switzerland), United musicians of Lucilin (Luxembourg) among others. He has conducted in several festivals which include Acht Brücken, Wittener Tage für Neue Musik, Bielefeld Festival (Germany), Klangspuren Schwaz (Austria) or Gaudeamus Musikweek (Holland), as well as in theaters such as the Philharmonie in Cologne, Tonhalle in Düsseldorf, Alte Oper Frankfurt and Philharmonie Luxembourg. In South America he has conducted, among others, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile, Clásica de la Universidad de Santiago, Orquesta de Cámara de Chile and Orquesta Sinfónica de la Serena (Chile), Orquesta Sinfónica de la U. de Cuyo and Orquesta Provincial de Rosario (Argentina), Orquesta Sinfónica del Cusco (Peru) and Orquesta Sinfónica Municipal de Caracas (Venezuela). Lautaro has made a significant contribution to the diffusion and support of Latin American contemporary music in Europe as founder and musical director of Kommas Ensemble (Cologne, Germany) and is also artistic director of the in Frankfurt based Broken Frames Syndicate, EvS Ensemble Prize 2024, whose objective is the permanent search for innovation and revitalization of the present musical scene.

Lautaro studied composition and orchestral conducting at the University of Chile with Cirilo Vila and David del Pino Klinge respectively. Since 2014 he has been living in Germany, in the city of Cologne, completing his studies in orchestral conducting at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf with maestro Rüdiger Bohn to later become a scholarship holder at the International Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt.

Lautaro obtains the first prize of the Graz International Conducting Competition & Masterclass 2014 (Austria), is a finalist in the Atlantic Coast Orchestral Conducting Competition (Portugal) and semifinalist in the second edition of the Città di Brescia Giancarlo Facchinetti Conducting Competition (Italy). As a student he participated in prestigious master classes, including the Bartók Seminar & Festival (Hungary), Järvi Academy (Estonia) or Kritisches Orchester (orchestra formed by musicians from prestigious German orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Dresden, Beethoven Orchester, etc.), with teachers such as Peter Eötvös, Heinz Holliger, Lothar Zagrosek, Lucas Vis, Helmuth Rilling, Colin Metters, among others.