Tomás Brantmayer

Tomás Brantmayer (1992) is a Chilean composer. He holds a Bachelor of Music Composititon from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and currently he is studying a Master of Composition at the Royal College of Music of London with Kenneth Hesketh. He has also attended to masterclasses with composers such as Mark Andre, Marco Stroppa and Johannes Schöllhorn. His works have been scheduled by the main orchestras of his country such as the National Symphony Orchestra of Chile, the Chamber Orchestra of Chile and the National Youth Symphony Orchestra of Chile, among others. In 2019 he was awarded with the MacDowell Colony Fellowship (USA) for an artistic residency where he was dedicated to the composition of a new piece for choir and orchestra. In recent years, his work has focused on writing music for symphony orchestra, and the research of relationships between autobiographical and political-cultural aspects.