Born in Mexico City in 1974, Enrico Chapela studied guitar performing and composition at CIEM academy, obtained a master’s degree at the University of Paris VII, and studies a PhD degree at the National University in Mexico (UNAM). He has won recognition at several international competitions such as The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships, the National System of Art Creators (Mexico), the International Rostrum of Composers UNESCO, the International Alexander Zemlinsky Composition Competition and The Barlow Endowment for Music Composition Prize, amongst others.

 

Chapela has been commissioned by Los Angeles Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, Seattle Symphony, Berkeley Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Santa Rosa Symphony, Cincinnati’s CCM Symphony, Nationaltheater Orchester Mannheim, Dresdner Sinfoniker, Düsseldorf Symphoniker, Cottbus Philharmonic, Deutsche Welle, Beethovenfest, L’Orchestre Philarmonique de Radio France, BBC Scottish Symphony, Wigmore Hall, Birmingham Symphony, Britten Sinfonia, Ofunam, Sinfónica de Minería, Sinfónica Carlos Chávez, Filarmónica de Boca del Río, Orquesta Simón Bolívar, Orquestra de São Paulo, Cuarteto Latinoamericano, ONIX ensamble, New Paths in Music Festival, Vail Music Festival, Entrequatre, Festival MX, Festival Cervantino, HD Duo, Jaime Márquez, Andrés Santana, Dan Casso, Mauricio Nader, Dartmouth College Wind Ensamble and The National Center for the Performing Arts Benjing, China.

 

His music has been performed in Latin America, North America, Asia, Australia and Europe by performers such as Chicago Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Columbia Orchestra, Portland Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, Spokane Symphony, Brevard Music Center Orchestra, Oberlin Chamber Orchestra, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Cabrillo Festival, Tanglewood Festival, The North/South Chamber Orchestra, Long Beach Symphony, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, NFM Philharmonic Wroclaw, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Orquestra Sinfônica do Porto, Warsaw Philharmonic, Jena Philharmonic, Cottbus Philharmonic, London Sinfonietta, Bundesjugendorchester, Sinfónica Nacional de Argentina, Sinfónica de Puerto Rico, Festival Campos de Jordao, Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira, Filarmónica de Jalisco, Sinfónica Nacional de México, Sinfónica del Estado de México, Sinfónica de la Universidad de Guanajuato, Sinfónica de Sinaloa, Ensamble de Música Contemporánea del CNM, Banda Sinfónica del Estado de Hidalgo, Banda Sinfónica de la FaM UNAM, Filarmónica de la Ciudad de México, Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, Seoul Philharmonic and Queensland Symphony.

 

Amongst the ensembles that have perfomed his music there are the Percussion Group Cincinnati, Contemporaneous, Metropolis Ensemble, Ensemble 10/10, NYYU ensemble, Aura Contemporary Ensemble, Compania Ensemble für Neue Musik, Duo Gurfinkel, Arditti String Quartet, Carpentier String Quartet, Calder String Quartet, Anacrusax, Modern Sax Quartett Berlin, Haags Saxofoonkwartet, Stockholm Sax Quartet, Cosmos Sax Quartet, Case Sax Quartet, Mana Saxophone Quartet, Ensamble Nuevo de México, Tambuco, Orquesta Pasatono, Cepromusic, Voz en Punto, Cuarteto Camerton, Quinteto de Alientos de la Ciudad de México, Quinteto de Metales de la Ciudad de México, Quinteto de Alientos de Bellas Artes, Cuarteto de Guitarras de la Ciudad de México, Trio de Alientos de Bellas Artes, Conjunto de cámara Tempos, Cuarteto José White and Mariachi Champaña Nevin.

 

The solists that have performed his music are Johannes Moser, Pekka Kuusisto, Alejandro Escuer, Edith Ruiz, Evangelina Reyes, Mauricio Nader, Richard Pohl, Luis Ramírez, Rolando Valdés, Álvaro Bitrán, Natalia Pérez Turner, Víctor Flores, Horacio Franco, Gonzalo Salazar, Jaime Márquez, Omán Kaminsky, Mattias Jacobsson, Pablo Garibay, Julio Isaac Cervantes, Luis Benítez Alba, Ľubomír Kopkáš, Rafael Jorge Negrete, Mónica Ábrego, Giselle Vallejo, Perry Chacón, Juanra Urrusti, Daniel Todd, Daniel Pannermayr, Luis Miguel Costero, Jesús Lara Valerio, Jens Legler, Thomas Kurtz, Young Woong Cho, Vile Kivivuori y Guilherme Carvalho.

 

Some conductors that have conducted his music: Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gustavo Dudamel, Marin Alsop, Joana Carneiro, Krzysztof Urbański, Premil Petrović, Niksa Bareza, Alexander Vedernikov, Christoph Konig, Markus Frank, Olari Elts, Andrew Cyr, Mark Gibson, James Gaffian, Jason Love, Edwin Outwater, Thomas Dausgaard, David Alan Miller, Pascal Rophé, Nicholas Milton, Max Lifchitz, Clark Rundell, Daryl Pratt, Leslie Dunner, Eckart Preu, Keith Lockhart, Michael Christie, Garry Walker, Darrel Ang, Stefan Asbury, David Bloom, Cliff Colnot, Francesco Lecce-Chong, Alexandre Soddy, Brian Messier, Andrew Litton, Christoph König, David Reinland, Axel Kober, Kleines Haus, Giancarlo Guerrero, Luis Gorelik, Marcos Arakaki, Diego Matheuz, Roberto Minczuk, Iván del Prado, Diego Naser, Joshua Dos Santos, Enrique Arturo Diemecke, Alondra De la Parra, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Miguel Salmón del Real, José Luis Castillo, Roberto Beltrán Zavala, Rafael Jiménez, José Areán, Enrique Barrios, Jorge Mester, Germán Tort, Luis Manuel Sánchez, Rubén Luengas, Gustavo Rivero, Rodrigo Macías, Teresa Rodríguez y Rafael Huberman.

Enrico Chapela Barba has composed 7 Mexican movies soundtracks: Somos lo que hay (Jorge Michel Grau), that was nominated to the ARIEL award, Amar no es querer (Guillermo Barba), that earned the Best Original Music Prize at the Pantalla de Cristal Festival. Also, La posesión de Altair (Víctor Dryere), Casi una gran estafa (Guillermo Barba), Perdida (Jorge Michel Grau), Estoy todo lo iguana que se puede, (Julián Robles), and the Netflix documentary La Dama del Silencio (María José Robles).

 

His music has been broadcasted in more than 40 countries all over the world, such as: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay and Venezuela.

 

Enrico Chapela is the CEO at Núcleo Integral de Composición (NICO), as well as Academic Director at Centro de Investigación y Estudios de la Música (CIEM). From 2011 till 2017 he hosted a contemporary music radio show called METAMUSICA at OPUS 94 radio station (IMER). His music is exclusively published by Boosey & Hawkes.