Composer-performer from Buenos Aires, Argentina
Favoring a simple approach towards material and form in composition. maintaining a considerable mobility regarding aesthetics and discursive positions. no intention of overlapping them.
Trained in composition, classical and electric guitar, and latin american contemporary aesthetics
From musical compositions to essays, songs to conceptual works, performing solo or within different musical communities in Argentina and Europe.
Composer, researcher, and guitarist, Tomás Cabado was born in 1993 in Buenos Aires, Argentinia. Currently he lives in Mainz, Germany. Since 2011, he has been active simultaneously in the jazz and popular music scene, as well as in the field of experimental music, working as a composer, arranger, educator, instrumentalist, producer, and manager both in Europe and Latin America.
He holds a Bachelor's degree in Musical Arts, graduating in 2016 with the highest average of his cohort from the National University of the Arts (Buenos Aires, Argentinia); and a National Teaching degree in Music from the Juan Pedro Esnaola School of Music (Buenos Aires, Argentinia, 2011). He also studied in the Advanced Jazz Program at the Manuel de Falla Conservatory (Buenos Aires, Argentinia , 2018) and in the Master's program in Contemporary Latin American Aesthetics at the National University of Avellaneda (Argentinia , 2019). He studied guitar privately with Juan Pablo Arredondo and improvisation with Wenchi Lazo. In 2017, he continued his composition studies in Germany with maestro Antoine Beuger, focusing on experimentation in contemporary music.
Since the summer semester of 2024 he is pursuing the Master’s degree in Sound Art-Composition at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz, Hochschule für Musik., Germany.
He received scholarships for training, mobility, and creation from various institutions such as cheLA (2013), the Center for Artistic Research (2014), the National University of the Arts (2015), the National Fund for the Arts (2016), the Argentine Fund for Cultural and Creative Development (2017, twice), the Pro-Helvetia Foundation (2019), and the Williams Foundation (2023).
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His music has been performed by Argentine and international ensembles and soloists in Latin America (Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile) and Europe (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and Switzerland) in concert formats as well as incidental music for stage and audiovisuals. In 2017, he embarked on his first European tour, presenting his music in Berlin, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Vienna, and Basel. In 2019, with the support of the Pro-Helvetia Foundation, he traveled to Switzerland to participate in a composition residency with musicians Jürg Frey, Stefan Thut, Christoph Schiller, and Manfred Werder. In 2022 he travelled for the third time to Europe, performing a residency in the Center for Experimental Music QO2 in Brussels, and a tour that also included Germany, France and Switzerland. This event strengthened his presence in Europe, which led him to move to Germany to continue his studies and develop his career.
As musical director, with the support of the National Fund for the Arts in 2016 he founded Música Experimental de Cámara, an ensemble and concert series dedicated to experimental music that commissioned and premiered new works by Argentine and international composers in concert halls in Buenos Aires (National Music Center, Manzana de las Luces, OSDE Foundation, among others). He has also founded and co-directed the El Estrecho ensemble from 2020 to 2023 alongside Luciano Vitale.
His albums were released in European, North American, and Argentinian labels as well. Such releases are Historia de la luz (2019, Wandelweiser, Germany), a veces el faro, a veces el barco, a veces se encuentran (2019, Irazú Records, USA), Unconscious Collections (2020, Another Timbre, England), Especies de Basilea (2020, Marginal Frequency, USA), Para las Esporas (2021, Isla Desierta, Argentina), Pillow Shots (2023, Isla Visión, Argentina), and Notizen (2024, Indexing Pitfalls, Argentina)
In the field of music education and research, between 2021 and 2023 he was the Dean of the International Composition Course Atlanticx, produced by the New Opera Festival of Buenos Aires. Since 2021 he has taught at the Astor Piazzolla Conservatory in subjects such as Theory and Practice of Music, Musical Appreciation, and as a professor of Technical Elements of Music of XX and XXI Centuries at the Juan Pedro Esnaola Conservatory. He has published original research articles on music in the 4’33’’ magazine of DAMus, UNA, and for the Magazine of the Higher Diploma in Contemporary Music at the Manuel de Falla Conservatory. He has taught extension courses at the University of San Martín and the National University of the Arts in Argentina.
https://tomascabado.com/