Luis Fernando Rizo-Salom


Luis Fernando Rizo-Salom was a Colombian composer of contemporary classical music who lived and worked in Paris since 1999. He was also a high performance athlete, member of the French Hang Gliding Team.

Biography

Luis Fernando Rizo-Salom obtained a master of composition at the Javeriana University in Bogota in 1998. In 1999, he decided to come to France to continue his studies with Emmanuel Nunes at the Conservatoire de Paris. Interested in computer music and new technologies, he followed the Curriculum composition and computer music at IRCAM in 2005 where he made Big Bang for viola and electronics.
Between 2005 and 2007 he was composer in residence at the Casa de Velazquez in Madrid. He also received support from institutions such as the Nadia and Lili Boulanger Foundation, the Colombian government, the Academy Villecroze, foundations Meyer Tarrazi Legs and St. Paul, and the Georges Wildenstein. His works were commissioned by the Concert Hall Shizuoka, the State, the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, the Festival du Larzac, the SACEM, the IRCAM, Radio France and Steirisches Kammermusik Festival.
He received awards from the Salabert Prize Foundation in 2004, the Prix International Forum for Young Composers in 2002, the Prize of the University of Évry, 'Premio Paso al Arte'.
His work included chamber works, orchestral and electroacoustic played in several contemporary music festivals in Colombia, France, England, Russia, Austria, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Germany and Canada, and broadcast by national radio Canadian, French and Colombian. His work was interpreted by leading ensembles and soloists such as Ensemble Intercontemporain sets Court-Circuit, Ensemble l'Itinéraire, Ensemble 2e2m, Nouvel Ensemble Modern, New Music Studio, Remix, the Orchestre National d'Ile de France and Christophe Desjardins, Peter Rundel, Mark Foster, Lorraine Vaillancourt, Jean Deroyer, Pascal Rophé, Susanna Mälkki, and Pierre Roullier.
In 2013 a monographic CD with his works of chamber music was released, produced and financed by the Luis Angel Arango Concert Hall in Bogota, with the support of the Bank of the Republic.
Luis-Fernando Rizo-Salom died in a hang-gliding accident, a sport in which he was champion of France in 2011.

Selected compositions

YearWorkComposed forDuration
PublisherReference
2013Rhizomespercussionunfinishedunpublished
2013Quatre pantomimes pour sixflute, clarinet, horn, violin, viola and cello12Le Chant du Monde
2012In/Outbass flute solo6Le Chant du Monde
2011El Juegobass flute, percussion, piano, viola and cello12'14Le Chant du Monde
2011Fluxusbaritone saxophone solo5'16babelscores.com
2010nock utensemble14'20Le Chant du Monde
2009Trois manifesteselectronic ensemble27unpublished
2007El laberinto de minotauroensemble6unpublished
2007El laberinto de minotauro 2ensemble10'30unpublished
2006Fabulas sobre fabrica de fabulasorchestra~11unpublished
2006La ventana de quimeras6'08Le Chant du Monde
2005Big Bangviola and live electroacoustics10unpublished
2005Fabrica de fabulasorchestraunpublished
2005Red Snowelectroacoustic4unpublished
20043-Dgrand ensemble10unpublished
2004Fabulaselectroacoustic1.30unpublished
2004Torrentebass and ensemble~9unpublished
2003Invenciones invisiblespiano solo11'04babelscores.com
2002Al umbral del abismopiano and ensemble17'35unpublished
2001Cumulusflute, violin, cello and piano10'59unpublished
2000Glideelectroacoustic6unpublished
1998Metamorfosisorchestre9unpublished
1997Sombrasoprano, flute, clarinet, bassoon and percussion8unpublished
1997Ritualbrass and percussion,unpublished
1997Variacionespercussion and pianounpublished
1995Fonodiapiano solounpublished
1994Dos miniaturasflute solounpublished