Eduardo Soutullo

Eduardo Soutullo is a Spanish composer and filmmaker. He was the recipient of the Spanish Ministry of Culture’s National Prize in Music (composition) in 2023. The jury awarded the prize to Soutullo for “the unanimous international recognition of his music especially his orchestral production, highlighting the premiere in Saint Petersburg of his antiwar cantata “The lament of sunflowers”. Life He began his musical education at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Vigo. Later, he moved to Madrid and to Paris completing his studies in Harmony and Composition with Isabelle Duha (Conservatoire d’Issy les Molineaux-Paris XIII) He has studied musical composition with David del Puerto, Jesús Rueda, (Köln Conservatory), Richard Steinitz (Huddersfield University) and with Cristobal Halffter and Tomás Marco (Villafranca del Bierzo, Spain). He has a master’s degree from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and has a Doctorat (PhD) from the Universidad de Vigo (thesis about Spanish contemporary music) He has been a professor at the Porto’s Superior School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE) He has been composer in residence at Spanish Academy in Rome in the course 2019-2020 In February 20