Víctor Morató studied his Bachelor in Music Composition in the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona with Oliver Rappoport and Ramon Humet. In 2019 he received an Erasmus scholarship to go to the Conservatoire National de Musique et Danse CNSMD in Lyon to study with Martin Matalon. Then he completed the Master’s degree in Music Composition in the Kunst Universität Graz with Beat Furrer. He has also participated in the Festival Mixtur and Impuls Festival as student, receiving classes by Mark Andre, Hèctor Parra, Carola Bauckholt and Pierluigi Billone. He has attended Masterclasses with the composers Brian Ferneyhough, Rebecca Saunders, Tristan Murail, George Benjamin, Luca Francesconi, Franck Bedrossian and Raphaël Cendo among others. His music has been performed in the Auditori de Barcelona, in the Institut Francès and in Fabra & Coats Barcelona inside the Festival Mixtur, in the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, in El Palau de les Arts (València), in the Salle Varèse du CNSMD in Lyon, in the MUMUTH (Graz), in Kultum (Graz), in Theater am Lend (Graz) and in Off Theater (Vienna). In 2020 he founded LaKT Ensemble, a group based in Austria that investigates relationships and ways of dialogue between music and dance. As a composer he worked with performers and groups such as Klangforum Wien, Duo Lallement Marques, Arditti Quartet, Schallfeld Ensemble, Cantando Admont, Kuraia Ensemble, PPCM, JOGV Orchestra, Duo Aryaga and LaKT Ensemble among others, receiving commissions from festivals and music cycles such as impuls and Open Music.
Awards/Scholarships (selection): 2023 Austrian State Scholarship for Composition (Staatsstipendium für Komposition)/ 2022 Awarded with the Music Prize of the city of Graz (Musikförderungspreis der Stadt Graz)/ 2022 Ensems Festival Grant holder/ 2021 Annual Scholarship in KUG/ 2019 Erasmus Scholarship to study in CNSMD Lyon
Interview in Sul Ponticello magazine: Read the interview here
Kronen Zeitung: “And Víctor Morató, his slow-motion study of a reading process by Schmatz, as a perfect combination of sound and text, made it possible to visualise what lies hidden between the (notes) lines.”
Felix Jurecek, Kleine Zeitung: “Explosions of sound can be heard when three musicians of Klangforum Wien and bassist Philipp Kienberger play the piece “Zweimal” (Twice) by Victor Morató Ribera. According to the accompanying text, everything happens twice. But when does anything repeat itself? On this evening, the intellectual level often seems to touch the sensual.”
