Bio

Javier Quislant (Bilbao) has won several awards as a composer, including the XI Reina Sofía Prize in Music Composition, the Leonardo grant for cultural creators and researchers from the BBVA foundation 2020–2021, the MAEC-AECID grant for the Spanish Royal Academy in Rome 2020–2021, first prize in the Franz Schubert und die Musik der Moderne - Kompositionswettbewerb für Klaviertrio 2020, XXIV Composition Prize of the College of Spain in Paris – INAEM 2018 and Musik Förderungspreis der Stadt Graz 2017.

His catalogue includes everything from solo pieces to ensembles, orchestra, choral and chamber opera. He has worked with numerous international orchestras and ensembles and his work has been performed at many festivals in Austria, France and Germany. In 2018, his first chamber opera, Mirada antigua, debuted at the Graz Opera.