SoniArt. Lumina Ensemble Group with composer Inés Badalo

Inés Badalo (1989, Olivenza) is a Spanish-Portuguese guitarist and composer. She completed her studies in composition and guitar at the Lisbon School of Music, studying with Luís Tinoco, and also attended masterclasses and lectures by composers José Manuel López López, Franck Yeznikian, Christopher Bochmann, Pedro Amaral, among others. She completed her Doctoral studies in Music and Musicology, specializing in Composition, with an outstanding cum laude qualification from the University of Évora.She has received commissions from the National Center for Musical Dissemination (CNDM), Portuguese Radio and Television – Antena 2, Mixtur Festival, Philharmonic Society of Badajoz, Arte no Tempo, Ensems Festival, DGArtes, Densité 93, National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM), Nak Festival, National Orchestra and Choir of Spain, Royal Philharmonic of Galicia, and the Symphony Orchestra of the Principality of Asturias, among others.Supported by the Gulbenkian Foundation and the Ministry of Culture, she has received various national and international awards, including the Composition Prize from the Portuguese Society of Authors / Antena 2 RTP in 2017 (Portugal), was honored for two consecutive years in the Young Composers Awards from the SGAE Foundation – CNDM, FIDAPA Prize from the International Composition Competition 'Città di Udine' in 2018 (Italy), Young Composers Prize from Plural Ensemble in 2018 (Spain), International Composition Competition 'Manuel de Falla' in 2016 (Spain), Fernando Lopes-Graça International Composition Prize in 2017 (Portugal). In 2019 she won the Composition Prize from the Spanish College in Paris and the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music, INAEM (France / Spain) and was selected in 2023 to participate in the UNESCO International Composers' Forum (Netherlands). In 2024 she received the SGAE-AEOS Symphonic Commission Prize, her work was selected in the Ibermúsicas program of Colombia and received the Leonardo Fellowship from the BBVA Foundation for a new compositional project with philosopher and poet Chantal Maillard, soprano Johanna Vargas (Neue Vocalsolisten), conductor Asier Puga and Grupo Enigma. In 2025 her work Khemia for orchestra has been selected by the Ministry of Culture of the Mexican Government, through the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (INBAL) and the National Coordination of Music and Opera (CNMO), for the closing concert of the 47th Manuel Enríquez International Forum of New Music.Her orchestral works are conducted by maestros of the caliber of Baldur Brönnimann, Shiyeon Sung, Juanjo Mena, Nuno Coelho and Michael Wendeberg, among others. Her music is performed by renowned ensembles, soloists and orchestras, such as the WDR Symphony Orchestra of Cologne, National Orchestra of Spain, National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of the Principality of Asturias, Royal Philharmonic of Galicia, Orchestra of Extremadura, Young National Orchestra of Spain, Plural Ensemble, Hand Werk Ensemble, Sigma Project, Contemporary Music Group of Lisbon, Soli-Tutti Vocal Ensemble, Sonido Extremo Ensemble, Neopercusión, Vertixe Sonora, Ensemble Mikrokosmos, Zahir Ensemble, Contemporary Music Group of Lisbon, Kuraia Ensemble, Grupo Enigma; in Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Croatia, Belgium, Portugal, Italy, United Kingdom, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, China, Japan, Germany, United States and France. Her music has been broadcast by radio stations in various countries: BBC (United Kingdom), WDR (Germany), Antena 2 – RTP (Portugal), Radio Beograd (Serbia), Yle Radio (Finland), Sveriges Radio (Sweden), LRT Radijas (Lithuania), RTV SLO (Slovenia), Radio Clásica – RNE (Spain), Klassikaraadio (Estonia), Hrvatski Radio (Croatia), Radio Ascoli (Italy), Ö1 Radio (Austria), etc.Her works have been performed in numerous festivals and concert halls around the world such as the Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, or the Internationalen Ferienkursen für Neue Musik Darmstadt (Germany); Suena Festival für zeitgenössische Musik Wien, Forum Gitarre Wien, MUK Theatre Vienna (Austria); Filarmonica George Enescu (Romania); Contemporanea – Festival di Nuova Música (Italy); Mixtur Festival, National Auditorium of Music, Ensems Festival, Juan March Foundation, Palau de la Música, Nak Festival, Contemporary Music Concert Series of the BBVA Foundation, Auditorium 400 of the National Museum of Contemporary Art Reina Sofía, Contemporary Music Days of Santiago de Compostela, or in the Current Music Series of the Philharmonic Society of Badajoz (Spain); Nief-Norf Festival Tennessee, Riverview Performing Arts Center, Florida (USA); Música Viva Festival, Grand Auditorium of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Casa da Música, Grand Auditorium of the CCB Lisbon (Portugal); XVIII World Saxophone Congress (Croatia); Mishima Contemporary Music Days, Tokyo Opera City (Japan); or in the Palace of Fine Arts of Mexico City (Mexico).