Tomás Brantmayer is a music composer based in Santiago, Chile. He holds a bachelor of music composition from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, where he was tutored by musicians Aliocha Solovera and Rafael Diaz. While in residence, Tomás worked on the composition of a cantata for narrator, choir, and large orchestra based on texts by Chilean poet Raúl Zurita. The work will be performed by Raúl Zurita in the narration, accompanied by the National Symphony Orchestra of Chile and the Vocal Camerata of the University of Chile. He has attended composition-related master classes guided by Marco Stroppa, Mark André and Johannes Schöllhorn, among others. In 2016, along with Sebastian Jatz, he managed the production and Latin American premier of John Cage's ASLSP. More than 60 musicians participated in the 79-hour-long continuous project. In 2017, Brantmayer was nominated for the Pulsar Prize as best classical music artist of the year in his country, and in 2019 he was selected to do a master's program at the Royal College of Music in London. Nowadays he is member of Proyecto Origami and Bell-ringers of Santiago.
Tomás Brantmayer
Studios
Monday Music
Tomás Brantmayer worked in the Monday Music studio.
Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…