Andres Lewin-Richter

Andres Lewin-Richter, composer, works primarily in electroacoustic media, including numerous pieces for instruments and tape, and music for ballet, theatre, film and video.

In 1962, he was awarded a Fulbright grant to study at Columbia University. While in New York, he composed music for the film "The Gondola Eye" by Ian Hugo, and worked as the sound engineer for the Alwin Nikolais Theater Ballet. In 1966, he promoted the City of Mexico Music Conservatory Electronic Music Studio. In 1968, he established the Barcelona Electronic Music Studio. He is a founding member of the Phonos Electronic Music Studio in Barcelona, which opened in 1974, and he has acted as Secretary of Música Abierta, Executive Director of the Conjunt Catalá de Música Contemporánia, and Secretary and Vice-President of the Catalan Composers Association.

He is currently Secretary and Executive Director of the Phonos Foundation, and Lecturer of the History of Electroacoustic Music at Pompeu Fabra University and the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya (ESMUC) in Barcelona.