Hèctor Parra Composer

Biography

Born in 1976 in Barcelona, Hèctor Parra is passionate about visual arts, literature, evolutionary biology, and theoretical physics. He served as a composition professor at Ircam from 2013 to 2017 and was a resident at the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici in 2021–2022. His multidisciplinary projects have led him to collaborate with writers such as Marie NDiaye, Pierre Lemaitre, Händl Klaus, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Kaouther Adimi, and Arnau Pons; directors such as Calixto Bieito, Milo Rau, and Mariame Clément; and scientists such as Lisa Randall and Jean-Pierre Luminet.

He is the author of more than 120 works commissioned by institutions including the Philharmonie de Paris, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Louvre Museum, Ircam – Centre Pompidou, the Munich Biennale, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. He has dedicated many years to lyrical composition, with works such as Hypermusic Prologue (2009), Das geopferte Leben (2013), Wilde (2015), Les Bienveillantes (2019), Orgia (2023), and JUSTICE (2024).

His work has received numerous awards, including the composition prize from the National Music Institute of Spain, the Tremplin Prize from the Ensemble intercontemporain, the Earplay Donald Aird Memorial Award in San Francisco, the Impuls Prize from Klangforum Wien, the Ernst von Siemens Foundation Composition Prize, and the National Culture Prize of Catalonia.

More recently, he received the Alicia Prize for Les Constellations de Miró (2022), the Spanish National Opera Prize Opéra XXI for Orgia (2023), and the Grand Prize of the Académie Charles Cros for the triple CD Les Bienveillantes (b·records, 2024). In 2025, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and the SACD Music Prize. His works are published by Durand / Universal Music Publishing Group.

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