Arnau Brichs is an acoustic and electronic artist based in London and Barcelona. His interests lie in creating a dramaturgical music, both for concert and stage, in combination with novel ways of writing for instruments with digital technologies.
He studied composition with Rubens Askenar, Tansy Davis and Helen Grime at the Royal Academy of Music (London) as an ABRSM scholarship holder, graduating with a first-class honours. Previously, he briefly attended the Purcell School for Young Musicians on a scholarship. He has won many national and international prizes like the "WCSMS 2019 Promising Young Composers Competition" (USA), the "Eric Coates Prize" (UK), among others.
He co-founded polsfura, an online platform for electronic, hybrid and acoustic music. An avid creative coder, he develops different software components for his own projects, many of which are widely downloaded online (+2K). The musical groups he has collaborated with include the Uusinta Ensemble (Time of Music Festival in Finland), the Locrian Chamber Players (NYC, USA), the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (Switzerland), the London Contemporary Soloists (performances in Istanbul and London), pianist Rolf Hind (Occupy the Pianos Festival), the Flying Carpet Festival (Mardin, Turkey) or bassoonist Olivia Palmer-Baker.
He initially studied jazz with Marina Albero and Chano Domínguez and classical piano with Mireia Datzira at the IEA Oriol Martorell school in Barcelona. As a soloist, he has appeared in venues like the Ateneu Barcelonès, Fundació Joan Miró (Festival Lluerna), CaixaForum Barcelona (Festival Microconcerts) or at the International Music Festival of Cadaqués.