GERARD ERRUZ
Composition · Performance · Research
Gerard Erruz is a composer, performer and researcher based in Graz, Austria. He focuses on new music, with a repertoire ranging from solo works to orchestral music, including the use of electronics. His current projects explore the metaphors within musical expression as well as the mimetic relationships between environmental and instrumental sounds. A multidisciplinary interest and background in art and science guide his creative processes with an emphasis on artistic research and the use of new technologies.
He began his musical studies at a young age as a classical pianist and gradually deepened his creative activity as a composer and electronics performer. He studied composition with Ramon Humet and Benet Casablancas in Barcelona, and Clemens Gadenstätter in Graz. He is currently a doctoral candidate at Kunstuniversität Graz, with the project Tools for working with environmental sounds and contextual phenomena in mixed music composition and improvisation. He has received insightful advice on his work from renowned composers such as Unsuk Chin, Chaya Czernowin, Beat Furrer, Elena Mendoza, Peter Eötvös, Elena Rykova and Kenneth Hesketh. He has been awarded, among others, the Austrian State Scholarship for Composition (Staatsstipendium für Komposition) 2026, the Price for Music Promotion 2025 (City Council of Graz), the Barcelona Crea 2024 grant (Ajuntament de Barcelona) and the Grant for research and innovation in music 2022 and 2023 (Generalitat de Catalunya). His works have been performed at Wien Modern (Vienna, AT), L’Auditori (Barcelona, ES), Kultursommer Wien (Vienna, AT), Alte Schmiede (Vienna, AT), MUMUTH (Graz, AT), Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (Tallinn, EE), Konvent (Berga, ES), KULTUM (Graz, AT), Lisboa Incomum (PT), Filmoteca de Catalunya (Barcelona, ES). He has been artist in residence at Phonos Foundation (Barcelona, ES) and Teatre de Sarrià (Barcelona, ES).
As an electronics performer he is active in improvisation projects as well as the performance of mixed music pieces. Together with the cellist Clara Torner, they developed the improvisation duo HYPAR, in which they explore the dialogue between environmental and instrumental sounds through a play of mimicry, crafting a world that delves into the experience of dreams and memory. As a performer, he took part in the premiere of the opera Shadow. Eurydice says. (2022) by Núria Giménez Comas at Gran Teatre del Liceu.
As a researcher, he holds a Bachelor in Theoretical Physics by the University of Barcelona and a Master’s degree in Sound and Music Computing by the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He has been professor of 3D Audio at the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) in Barcelona and has been invited as a guest lecturer at the University of Barcelona (UB), the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC), and the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). Among other spaces, his research has been presented at the 2018 Audio Engineering Society (AES) International Conference at Tokyo Denki University (Japan), the Theory and Analysis Graduate Student Conference 2025 at Royal Holloway (UK), the Ninth International Symposium on Music and Sonic Art in Karlsruhe (Germany), and the 3rd SoMoS Symposium of the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance at University of Oslo (Norway).