Eduardo Soutullo García is awarded the National Music Prize 2023 in the composition category.
The composer Eduardo Soutullo García (Vigo, 1968) has won the National Music Prize 2023, in the composition category, awarded by the Ministry of Culture and Sport, with a cash prize of 30,000 euros. The jury highlighted “the unanimous international recognition of his music, especially his orchestral output, with the premiere of his cantata El lamento de los girasoles in St. Petersburg in 2022”. In addition to Joan Francesc Marco and Ana Belén Faus Guijarro – director general of INAEM and deputy director general of Music and Dance, respectively -, the jury was made up of the violinist and manager of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Andrés Luis Lacasa Nikiforov; the professor of Musicology and director of the music programme of the Fundación Juan March, Miguel Ángel Marín López; the soprano Marina Monzó Martínez; the composer and guitarist, David del Puerto Jimeno; the pianist and winner of the 2017 National Music Prize in the category of Performance, Rosa Torres-Pardo; Pilar Rius, proposed by the Association of Women in Music; and the winner of the 2022 National Music Prize in the category of composition, Alicia María Díaz de la Fuente.
Eduardo Soutullo began his musical training at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Vigo. He later moved to Madrid and Paris, where he completed his studies in Piano, Music Theory, Harmony and Composition, and studied musical composition with David del Puerto, Jesús Rueda, José Luis de Delás (at the Cologne Conservatory), Isabelle Duha (at the Issy les Molineaux-PARIS XIII Conservatory), Richard Steinitz (at the University of Huddersfield) and with Cristóbal Halffter and Tomás Marco, and has taught at the Vigo Conservatory and the Ourense Conservatory.