Biography
2018 © Manuela Romero
Lula Romero (María de la Luz Romero Garrido) holds degrees in Composition, Piano, and Art History. She has finished her Master's degree in Composition at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague with Gilius van Bergeijk and Cornelis de Bondt and in 2021 her Artistic Doctoral Studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, Austria, with Clemens Gadestätter and Dr. Christa Brüstle.
She has been awarded with a Portrait-CD in the serie zeitgenössische Musik (WERGO) of the Deutschen Musikrat, with the GIGA-HERTZ Production prize 2014 by the ZKM and the SWR Experimentalstudio, the Kompositionsstipendium 2015 and 2012 and the Berlin–Rheinsberger Kompositionpreis 2011, by the cultural affairs department of the city of Berlin and the grants/residences Residence in the Deutsches Studienzentrum Venedig (Venice) 2017 of the German Government, the Künstlerhof Schreyahn 2013 (Germany) and the GEDOK Gastatelier 2012 by the Schleswig-Holstein Government (Germany). She has received the CDMC 2008 composition prize of the Spanish Ministry of Culture and the Honorable Mention in the Fundación autor – CDMC prize 2010.
Her works have been performed by contemporary music ensembles such as, SWR Orchestra, KNM Berlin, Vertixe Sonora Ensemble, Duo Hellqvist/Amaral, Nieuw Ensemble, Kairos Quartett, Zafraan Ensemble, and RadaR Ensemble in international festivals like Donaueschinger Musiktage 2020 und 2022, MATA (New York), SPOR (Aarhus), Mixtur (Barcelona) and the Sonification Festival (Berlin.)
She lives and works in Berlin.
2021 | Sonderstipendienprogramm INITIAL Akademie der Künste |
2020 | Stipendienprogramm 2020/2021 Musikfonds |
2019 | Portrait-CD „ins Offene“ in the serie zeitgenössische Musik (WERGO) produced by Deutschen Musikrat |
10/2016 – 10/2021 |
Doctor Artium, at the
University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz,
Austria. Supervisors; Prov. Univ. Clemens Gadenstätter
and Prof. Univ. Dr. Christa Brüstle.
Dissertation Wandering Recurrence: Openness
and Identity through Spatialization
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10 – 12/2017 | Residence in the Deutsches Studienzentrum Venedig (Venice) 2017 of the German Government. |
04/2015 | Kompositionsstipendium 2015. Awarded by the culture affairs department of the city of Berlin. |
11/2014 | GIGA-HERTZ Production prize 2014 for
Electronic Music by the ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics and the SWR Experimentalstudio, Germany. |
05 – 10/2013 | Residence Künstlerhof Schreyahn 2013 Samtgemeinde Lüchow, Wendland, Germany. |
09 – 10/2012 | Residence GEDOK Gastatelier 2012 by the Schleswig-Holstein Government. |
04/2012 | Kompositionsstipendium 2012. Awarded by the culture affairs department of the city of Berlin |
03/2011 | Awarded the Berlin-Rheinsberger Kompositionspreis 2011. |
11/2010 | Awarded the Honorable Mention of the XXI Young Composers Fundación Autor – CDMC Prize 2010, for the work Profil perdu. |
2009 – 2010 | Ligeti Academy (Asko-Schönberg Ensemble) as composer. |
08/2008 – 07/2010 | Master in Composition Royal Conservatory, The Hague with Gilius van Bergeijk and Cornelis de Bondt. |
2009 – 2010 | Scholarship for Artistic Studies for the year 2009-10 from the Junta de Andalucía (Government of Andalusia). |
07/2008 | Awarded the CDMC Composition Prize. Composition Prize of the CDMC (Centro de Difusión de la Música Contemporánea), of the Spanish Ministry of Culture during the Young Composer’s Meeting INJUVE 2008, for the work In constant sorrow. |
2007 – 2008 | Substitute lecturer on Harmony and Counterpoint at the Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Baza and Conservatorio de Jaén, Spain. |
09/2002 – 07/2006 | Bachelor’s Degree in Music in Composition, Conservatory Manuel Castillo, Seville. |
09/1996 – 07/2002 | Bachelor’s degree of Music in Piano, Conservatory Cristóbal de Morales, Seville. |
10/1994 – 09/2000 | Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Art History, University of Seville, Faculty of Geography and History. |