Galindo Quero succeeds Dayer in Bern
After more than twenty years, composer and lecturer Xavier Dayer is leaving Bern University of the Arts (HKB). Irene Galindo Quero succeeds him in the composition department of the music faculty.
The 39-year-old Spanish composer Irene Galindo Quero will head the highly international Master of Arts in Music Composition course from August and also supervise Bachelor students, according to the HKB press release. With her focus on content, she is ideally qualified to lead composition at the HKB into the future. Her music is strongly influenced by literature, linguistics and theories of perception. Contemporary music theater is also at the center of her activities.
Irene Galindo Quero completed her composition studies at the Conservatorio Superior Granada with Pedro Guajardo in 2007. As a scholarship holder of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and La Caixa-DAAD, she studied composition at the Musikhochschule Freiburg with Cornelius Schwehr and Mathias Spahlinger and completed a master's degree with Johannes Schöllhorn in Cologne until 2014.
Her works have been performed by numerous European ensembles, such as Ensemble Modern, Trio Catch and EnsembleKollektiv Berlin, and presented at renowned festivals. Galindo's compositions have been awarded several scholarships and prizes, such as the Berlin-Rheinsberg Composition Prize (2019) and the Composition Prize of the State Capital Stuttgart (2023). In 2012, she spent six months in Mumbai as an artist-in-residence of the NRW Kunststiftung and the Goethe Institute and has been studying Hindustani music (sarod) with Pandit Brij Narayan ever since.
