Sergio López Figueroa
The Humming Man Dossier Composer 2023
Name Sergio López Figueroa
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Pianist and piano teacher
Composer (contemporary classical, film and media)
Trainer Creative and Social Mindfulness
Conference Speaker
Digital content creator
Illustrator and graphic artist
Social entrepreneur (Polyhum®)
Sergio López Figueroa (1966) is a pianist, composer and social entrepreneur born and returned to Gran Canaria after more than thirty years living in London, Barcelona, Madrid and Bologna. His current professional interest is focused on the field of social music therapy and the development of Polyhum® as his own multisensorial mindfulness technique and the use of harmonic vocal vibration for preventive mental health and participatory music co-creation through workshops, acoustic immersions in nature , training courses and interactive concerts. In June 2023, he will teach an online course on creative mindfulness and stress management for musicians sponsored by the SGAE Foundation. He has received recognition and awards from the Southbank Centre, Juan Carlos I University, (Madrid) and Ealing City Council in London in this field.
From February 2021 to June 2022, he participated in the Gran Canaria Talent program managed by the Island Council (SPEGC) and is currently receiving support from the University Foundation of Las Palmas de GC (FULP) to implement Polyhum® in the island and national territory. During the two years of residence in Barcelona (1999-2001) Sergio introduced Sibelius musical notation program to the national market as a commercial agent through public presentations and made the first translation into Spanish of the software and the user manual.
He studied piano in Las Palmas (Assya Zlatkowa), in Bologna (Italy) with Marina Cavana and composition with Alessandro Solbiati and Ennio Morricone. In Madrid he worked as an accompanist pianist at the Escuela Superior de Canto and obtained a higher degree with Angeles Rentería. In 1994 he moved to the United Kingdom to specialize in music for film and television, having completed a master's degree at Bournemouth University and higher studies at NFTS (National Film & TV School). He has received opera commissions (Mothers, Huddersfield Music Festival) and has composed original music for silent films (Tate modern / Dali Exhibition, 2007 London and Berlinale) theatre and concert music.
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His composition Clonic Mutations for Un Perro Andaluz by Buñuel and Dalí (1929) received the Harlock Award at the Rimusicazioni Film Festival (Bolzano Italy, 2007). It was performed in Barcelona, London and Berlin. He has been invited to participate in several international conferences on cultural policies and education (European Commission, Barclays Bank, Aspen Institute and more) for his work in promoting social inclusion through music and audiovisual language. Sergio has worked in London as a special education music teacher and has been a volunteer resident pianist at Charing Cross Hospital in the UK capital.
In 2009 he received as an international cultural leadership award by the British Council and produced the educational project Delhi City Symphony, working with excluded youth and various public institutions in Delhi in the co-creation of an audiovisual work, using film archives accompanied by original live music with musicians from Indian classical tradition. An educational and creative model, in order to review the past, question the present and imagine the future, through creativity, empowerment and audiovisual resources. His last commissioned orchestral work was in an improvised format HUM HOME Gran Canaria (2016) performed by the Maestro Valle orchestra of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. As an educator, he received the European prize (MEDEA) for the creative use of audiovisual media with the Unseen Voices project on historical memory and racism. Between 2008 and 2013 he directed the audiovisual training company Big Bang Lab (www.vimeo.com/bigbanglab), focused on educationalsocial and intergenerational projects. During that period he produced participatory events in co-working spaces in London with the crowdversations model and cinema forum where the public was co-creator of the content of debates in real time https://vimeo.com/29030525.
As an activist he has created original music to raise awareness for mental health and fair housing campaigns, and in 2019 he trained as a mental health facilitator at Middlesex University. After a period of recovery from cancer diagnosed in 2018, Sergio is resuming his musical career as a composer and proposes new forms of audience / creator relationship with interactive and improvised concerts, as well as an interest in creating new musical experiences and repertoire both in concert format. face-to-face, virtual and for audiovisuals. His new projects include short solo piano scores aimed at amateur adults under the title Songs for your inner child (Cucciolo https://youtu.be/PLEwrFKD_7U) as well as more elaborate research projects of multidisciplinary musical creation such as Tantrix exploiting the acoustic resources of body percussion and the human body as a sound interface, including participatory and written elements, taking the theme of the four seasons as a conceptual framework from the point of view of human, environmental and spiritual relations towards a new awareness of contemporary music.
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The Humming Man Dossier Composer 2023
Muestra de composiciones en audio (Soundcloud) y enlaces a visualización de partituras online (Score Exchange)
• Fuguetina (piano solo) https://on.soundcloud.com/rNzFH Score: https://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/1387.html
• Funkdango (saxophone quartet) https://soundcloud.com/kinoscore/funkdango
• Ombra (saxophone quartet) https://on.soundcloud.com/2yvzf Score: https://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/1231.html
• Hum Home Gran Canaria (orchestral improvisation) https://on.soundcloud.com/sqGJL
• Dilema Concertante (Harpsichord and large ensemble) Partitura: https://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/1229.html
• Kadook Tuk (solo cello) https://on.soundcloud.com/dzt9J Partitura: https://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/1309.html
• Programa Clonic Mutations (live music for silent film, Un Chien Andalou - 1929- ) https://vimeo.com/channels/silentfilms/ videos
Sergio López Figueroa, beneficiary in 2018 of the Erasmus+ program for entrepreneurs. Exchange in Paris with the entrepreneur, consultant and mentor Thierry Roussin (AguiaLabs)
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Clonic Mutations
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MOTHERS ópera de cámara
Crítica The Guardian Clonic Mutations https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2007/jul/26/yeslivemusicsettofilmcan
DILEMA CONCERTANTE
Premiere proposal not materialized yet, original expression of interest from the late Elisabeth Chojnacka, harpsichord soloist (who had agreed to it) with the Ensemble Avanti
https://youtu.be/7FHgGQzfKiQ
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IN FIVE YEARS TIME
Música compuesta para la versión inglesa de la obra de Lorca Así que pasen cinco años (In five years time) utilizando actores/músicos en un escenario tipo cuadrilátero. Obra acogida en Londres con gran éxito de público y de crítica teatral.
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Workshops
Mindfulness
POLYHUM
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Cultural Olympiads
Delta Saxophone Quartet ICA, London 2012
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UnseenVoices
Educational Work
MEDEA AWARD
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