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Henry Vega, born in New York City (1973), is an active composer and performer of new music whose works appear in productions of theatre, dance and concert music that focus solely on modern artistic trends. His music ranges from virtuosic instrumental writings to subtle colourful compositions orchestrating traditional instrumentations with the world of electronic sound. His current interests lie within theatrical settings of his music in combination with video in the space of a minimal aesthetic that crosses simple harmonies over noisy counterpoints.
Vega's works have been performed at festivals and venues in Europe and the Americas largely performing with his trio The Electronic Hammer and the electronic music theatre group The Spycollective. He has had the pleasure to write music for ensembles such as the MAE, VocaalLab, Ensemble Integrales and the Roentgen Connection mainly performing the computer parts himself.
His music has received first prize from Musica Nova (Czech Rep.), Crash Intl. Biennale (Poland) and SCI, Honorable Mention from the Hungarian Radio EAR competition and was selected for the Gaudeamus Composition Contest 2004 in Amsterdam for his work 'Alibi'. Vega's works have been performed at venues in Cuba, the United States, Korea, Europe and Australia and at festivals such as ICMC, SEAMUS, Sonic Residues, the Scarborough EA Festival, Primavera en la Havana, Sonorities, Aural Tick and the Florida EM Festival.
In 2003 he founded 'The Electronic Hammer' with Diego Espinosa and Juan Parra, a group dedicated to performing new and recent works for percussion and computers allowing composers with limited or expert knowledge of computers to compose freely for this meta-instrument. The trio has performed in many international festivals and received a one hour featured artist presentation on the BBC "Hear and Now" radio program. In 2007 the group released their debut CD How to philosophize with a Hammer on the EMF label.
His work 'Idoru in Metals' is recorded on the ICMC 2005 CD which took place in Barcelona
Vega currently holds a PhD degree from the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC - Queens U.) in Belfast under the guidance of Michael Alcorn. Previously he studied composition at Florida Intl. University with Orlando Garcia and Kristine Burns, at the University of North Texas with Jon Nelson and at the Institute for Sonology at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague where his mentors, Paul Berg, Joel Ryan and Kees Tazelaar, guided him in programming and improvisation as well as composition.
During these years Vega has also had the opportunity to study composition with Franco Donatoni, Earl Brown, James Tenney, Francis Dhomont and Christian Wolff.
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