Mauricio Pauly (b. 1976 San José, Costa Rica) studied composition in Costa Rica, Miami and Boston (USA) with Lukas Foss, Richard Cornell, Fredrick Kaufman and others. His music has been performed by the Studio New Music Moscow, the UMZE Ensemble, the Ikarus Chamber Players, the Iturriaga Quartet and other ensembles and soloists in Costa Rica, USA, Spain, Hungary and Russia. Recent awards include the 2004 Esther Kahn Award, first prize in the VIII Pablo Sorozabal Composition Competition and in the 2005 Budapest Clavicembalo Foundation Composition Competition. After his graduation from Boston University, traveled to Russia with a group of fellow composers to attend classes with Vladimir Tarnopolski and to present their music at the American Cultural Center in Moscow. Later that year Mauricio moved to Budapest where he spent a year composing and studying independently. During 2005-6 he lived in the Netherlands and attended the Sonology Course at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Currently lives in the UK where he is pursuing a research-based PhD at the Novars Research Centre for Electroacoustic Composition within the University of Manchester. His performance project, Leche Vaqera, was premiered this past August in two sold-out concerts in San José, Costa Rica. Earlier that month, the Iturriaga Quartet performed his Cuarteto Alberto at the opening concert of the Quincena Musical in San Sebastián, Spain. His harpsichord piece, Forebe Aneba, was premiered in November 2006 by Dalma Cseh at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, followed by a a live concert broadcast from the Hungarian Radio Studios this past January 2007. Mauricio is currently working on a new piece for the Budapest-based Trio Lignum as part of a collaboration with the AltaVoz Ensemble of which he is a founding member.
New piece (2007) for 2 clarinets, bassoon and computer written for the Trio Lignum (Budapest, Hungary) New piece (ON REVISION 2007), for marimba, drums and pre-recorded audio ca.5 min Forebe Aneba (2005) for solo clavicembalo optional version + GeneralMidi drumset ca. 5min TéLEX / banda escadalofónica (2005) for wind ensemble + piano, percussion and low strings ca. 8min Atento pero cabizbajo, (2004) Attentive but crestfallen for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano & percussion ca. 6min La Prisa Educable, (2003-4) The Educatable Rush for amplified clarinet, cello and piano + pre-recorded audio ca. 8min pauly-prisa_educable-ikarus-2005.html Carta (2004) for violoncello solo ca. 14min pauly-carta_cello-eguchi-2004.html Apertura del Becerro, (2003) Opening of the Calf for soprano and viola ca. 6min pauly-apertura_del_becerro-2003.html Octeto -sketch-, (2003) for violin, viola, cello, contrabass, piano and percussion ca. 7min I. pars pro toto II. untitled La Prisa Educable, (2003) The Educatable Rush for amplified clarinet, bassoon and piano ca. 2min pauly-la_prisa_educable-2003.html Oficio para soprano y coro de enfermos, (2003) for soprano and string orchestra w/ crystal glasses text from Camilo José Cela´s Oficio de Tinieblas No. 5 ca. 9min pauly-oficio_para_soprano_y_coro_de_enfermos-2004.html El Truco del Himen Fantasma, (2003) The Ruse of the Hymen Ghost for viola with piano accompaniment. ca. 6min pauly-himen_fantasma-berger_lan-2003.html TRECE, (2003) for tape. I. Pollos II. Loras for Daniel Ross’s film of the same name, 2003. ca. 2min Continuidad de los Parques, (2002) Continuity of the Parks for solo piano. ca. 10min Mandarín Reproductor, (2002) Mandarin Reproducer for soprano and piano. ca. 3min Ethancillo, (2002) for solo violin. ca. 10min pauly-ethancillo_violin-stahel-2002.html La opera de dios mío, (2001) for (3 perf.) Nicaraguan-marimba/crotales/kalimba, doumbek, harpsichord/bells and tape. ca. 5min Maletón fue un super pinta, (2000, rev. 2002) for tape ca. 4min Cuarteto de Cuerdas No. 1, Cuarteto Alberto, (2001) String Quartet No. 1, Alberto Quartet ca. 14min I.Pulsoso, II. Turbio, attaca III.a Manazos Fragmentos de un poema de Julio Cortázar, (2001) Fragments from a poem by Julio Cortázar for soprano, 2 violins, electric bass and contrabass ca. 4min miniatura., (2000) for x-medium orchestra ca. 2min pauly-miniatura_xmedium-buso-cornell-2003.html
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