Biografía
Composer and pianist Arturo Cardelús is a rising talent in the film industry and the world of concert music. Arturo's piano performance studies in his native Spain, in Hungary, and at London's Royal Academy of Music led him to his true passion: composition. Arturo undertook further studies of composition and film scoring at Boston's Berklee College of Music, graduating summa cum laude. Arturo currently lives in Los Angeles, where he is scoring Tangernación, his first feature film.
Arturo hails from the world's top music academies. He studied at Salamanca's Conservatorio Superior de Música, where he received a Graduate Degree in Piano Performance with the highest honors. After further studies with Kornel Zempléni at the Franz Liszt Academy, Hungary's most prestigious music academy, Arturo enrolled in London's renowned Royal Academy of Music. At the Royal Academy, Arturo earned a Postgraduate Diploma in Performance under the supervision of Colin Stone. Arturo's passion for film and and composition next took him to Berklee College of Music, where his studies were underwritten by scholarships from Berklee and the Spanish Association of Performers (AIE).
Arturo has won numerous awards for his compositions including the Richard Levy Award (the Berklee Composition's Department's highest honor) and first prize in the Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra Composition Competition. He recently scored the short film Sol, which premiered to rave reviews at the Seminci Film Festival. He is currently scoring several short films and a feature film.
Arturo is also an avid composer and performer of concert music; his orchestral piece Loon's Lament recently premiered at Madrid's Auditorio Nacional. His piano playing has wowed audiences in Spain, Hungary, England, and the United States, including his performance of his Piano Concerto at Boston's famed Jordan Hall.