Marius Alexander Díaz Moreno

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1985. He lived and studied in Havana (Cuba) from 2002 to 2015. Since 2020, he studies at the Reina Sofía School of Music’s Composition Chair with professor Fabián Panisello. He has been granted scholarships by Fundación Santo Domingo and Fundación Albéniz. Her Majesty Queen Sofía handed him the Diploma to the most outstanding student of his chair in the 2022-2023 academic year.

Composer, conductor, pianist, editor, pedagogue, and documentalist, since 2009, he leads Fundación Colarte Café in his hometown and is a member of the editorial team of the digital newsletter of the Gabinete Musical Esteban Salas: the Sincopado Habanero (Cuba). He has taught at the National School of Arts in Cuba, at the National Pedagogical University of Colombia, and at the INCCA University of Colombia. He is also editor and copyst of Cuban composers Alfredo Diez Nieto and Leo Brouwer.

He has been awarded first prize at the International Musicalia Competition of the ISA University of Arts (2008, Cuba), special prize at the Harold Gramatges Competition of the UNEAC (2012), 160 José Martí ISA prize (2015, Cuba), first prize at the first FESTIQ-ARTETOS national competition (2018, Colombia), special CUBADISCO prize (2018, Cuba), second prize at the Alfred Schnittke International Composers´ Competition (2018, Ukraine), shared first prize at the Ensemble ECO Competition (2019, Costa Rica), third prize at the 8SW Composer Competition (2020, United States) and first prize at the Hajibeyli International Competition (2021, Azerbaiyan), for his work "Koroglu" for baritone and ensemble, with which he performed at the Lincoln Centre in New York, United States.

As a student of the School, he has attended masterclasses by Heinz Holliger and Tristan Murail.