MANUEL BUSTO
*31 January 1987
Works by MANUEL BUSTO
Biography
Composer and conductor originally from Los Palacios y Villafranca (Seville, Spain), he has recently been awarded the prestigious Fundación BBVA Becas Red Leonardo 2021 in the area of Music and Opera as composer, he is holding with idealistic determination and success both career as both a conductor and a composer, and he is often seen as one of the young spanish artist who has most widely projection both inside Spain and worldwide in the field of Opera, Symphony and Dance, he is currently . highlighting as one of the main guest directors of the Spanish National Ballet. His most recent work as a conductor and composer has included the Taiwan National Opera House and conducted the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, the Teatro de la Maestranza de Sevilla, Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofía de Valencia and the Orquesta de la Comunitat Valenciana, the Spanish National Ballet or the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza Aterballetto.
About the music
In the music of Manuel Busto we can find an intertextural aesthetic, with the contemporany concept and techniques next to flamenco codes. That give to the music of Busto a great personality, whereby he is receiving important commission of ballet companies, opera houses, or different festivals of music. Manuel Busto’s career as a composer has been given a big boost in recent years and being selected by the BBVA Foundation to receive one of the most prestigious awards of a creative nature in Spain, the Fundación BBVA Becas Red Leonardo 2021, in the areas of Music and Opera has been particularly important as it has brought attention to his creation of his own distinctive intertextual and crossdisciplinary language which combines classical, contemporary and flamenco elements.
