Andrián Pertout's Biography

Composer, Performer, Producer, Arranger & Writer
PO Box 4172, Richmond East VIC 3121, Australia
Email: apertout@pertout.com

Andrian Pertout: Composer Andrián Pertout (officially Andrián Fabián Pertout Navarro O'Ryan) was born in Santiago, Chile, 17 October, 1963 [Versión en Castellano], and lived in Gorizia, Northern Italy for several years before finally settling in Melbourne, Australia in 1972. Over the years he has worked as a film composer, performer, producer, arranger and writer. In 2000, Andrián Pertout completed a BMus (Hons) degree, and in 2002, a Master of Music (MMus) degree with first class honours at the University of Melbourne, majoring in composition. In 2007, he completed a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at the University of Melbourne on Tweddle Trust, Australian Postgraduate and Melbourne Research scholarships, studying composition under the guidance of Brenton Broadstock. He is currently the Australian delegate of the ACL (Asian Composers’ League), secretary of the Melbourne Composers’ League, Honorary Fellow at the Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne, and on the Board of Directors at the AMC (Australian Music Centre).

Composition awards include the Dorian Le Gallienne Composition Prize, Betty Amsden Award, Louisville Orchestra Prize (USA), Oare String Orchestra Judges’ and Audience Prize (UK), Michelle Morrow Memorial Award, and the Zavod Jazz/Classical Fusion Award. He has received numerous commissions, including recent works for The University of Hong Kong Gamelan Orchestra and Australian pianist Michael Kieran Harvey (commissioned by Julian Burnside QC). Film Music commissions include works that have been written to accompany over 20 documentary and short films, television programs, as well as commercials, computer games and stage productions. Highlights of this part of Andrián’s career include composing for documentary films such as East Meets West (1984), Ibrahim (1984), The Murray River Quest (1985), Hope Street (1987) and The Australian Ballet (1990).

Andrián's music has been performed in Japan, Venezuela, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Brazil, Cuba, Peru, Colombia, China, Croatia, Hong Kong, France, Belgium, Chile, Italy, Canada, Republic of Macedonia, Slovenia, UK, Korea, Netherlands, Austria, USA, Australia by orchestras that include Orquestra Petrobras Sinfônica (Brazil), Louisville Orchestra, Foundation Orchestra (USA), Oare String Orchestra (UK), La Chapelle Musicale de Tournai (Belgium), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (Australia); conductors such as Rodolfo Fischer (Switzerland), Johannes Fritzsch (Germany), Peter Aviss (UK), Kenneth Young (New Zealand), Robert Franz, David C. Bugli (USA), Robert Casteels (Singapore), Jürg Henneberger (Switzerland), Warwick Stengards (Australia); as well as performers and ensembles that include Ónix Ensamble (Mexico), Isabel Ettenauer (Austria), Goska Isphording (The Netherlands), Ensamble Contemporáneo (Chile), Beatriz Elena Martínez (Colombia), Sonemus Ensemble (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Susanne Stanzeleit, Carla Rees (UK), Diversity, Duo Dicto, Le Brass Band du Nord-Pas de Calais (Belgium), Quinteto CEAMC (Argentina), Crossroads Trio, Ensemble Octandre (Italy), Alea Contemporary Music Ensemble (Republic of Macedonia), Matej Zupan (Slovenia), Sori Ensemble (Korea), Marika Ottitsch, Lourenço César Finatti (Austria), Ensemble für neue musik zürich (Switzerland), Omni Ensemble, Phyllis Chen, Noah Getz, Erik Carlson, John McMurtery, Jeri-Mae Astolfi, Adam Muller, Orenunn Trio, Syracuse Ensemble, Craig Hultgren (USA), Rebecca Long, Qmars Piraglu, Anne Norman, Peter Hagen, 3 Lines, Natsuko Mineghishi, Sonic Art Ensemble, Marshall McGuire, Ryszard and Aleksander Pusz, Josephine Vains, Barry Cockroft, Tin Alley String Quartet, Rachel Atkinson, Luke Howard, Jo To, Speak Percussion, Trio Erytheia, Adrian Sherriff, Robert Chamberlain, Amy Valent, New Audience Ensemble, Robert Sipos-Ori, Alex Pertout, Johanna Selleck, Australian Contemporary Chorale (Australia).

His music has received performances at festivals such as the ISCM World Music Days 2005 and 2007 (Zagreb, Croatia and Hong Kong), 33e Festival d'Automne á Paris (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, France), XIII and XV Festival de Música Contemporánea Chilena (Santiago, Chile), 22nd and 26th ACL Conference & Festival (Seoul, Korea and Wellington, New Zealand), XXIX Foro Internacional de Música Nueva “Manuel Enríquez”, 2007 (Mexico City, Mexico), Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey / Electronic and Computer Music Concert Series 2005, 2006 and 2007 (Los Angeles, CA, USA), Extensible Toy Piano Festival (The University at Albany, MA, USA), BMIC Cutting Edge Series (London, UK), V and VI Festival Internacional de Música Electroacústica de Santiago – Ai-maako 2005 and 2006 (Santiago, Chile), Ljubljana Festival 2006 (Ljubljana, Slovenia), XI Festival Internacional de Música Electroacústica ‘Primavera en la Habana' 2006 (Habana, Cuba), ‘Gradus ad Parnassum' Concert Series (Royal Conservatory of Ghent, Belgium), Tercer Festival Internacional de Música Clásica Contemporánea de Lima (Lima, Peru), Extensible Toy Piano Project (Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA), Segunda Convocatoria de Composición de Matiz Rangel Editores (Bogotá, Colombia), Society of Composers ‘2005 National Conference' (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, USA), Indiana State University 38th Annual Contemporary Music Festival, ‘Plugged In: Music With an Electric Edge' (Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, USA), 3èmes Rencontres Musiques Nouvelles (Paris, France), Electric Rainbow Coalition Festival (Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA), Terza Rassegna Internazionale di Composizione ‘Alfeo Gigli' (Bologna, Italy), Third New Music North Festival (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada), ‘New Scene' Festival (Skopje, Republic of Macedonia), 2002 Festival Musica Danubiana (Ljubljana, Slovenia), ‘Musicircus – 1840' / Cage 2002: 90/10 (University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UK), Literatur Schallmauer (Austria, Vienna), Neunzigster Konzert der Harmonia Classica ‘Jubiläums und Preisträgerkonzert' Sekunde Harmonia Classica Kompositionswettbewerb (Vienna, Austria), and the CEAIT Electronic Music Festival 2002 (California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, CA, USA), among many.

2007 highlights included performances of Azadeh for Santur and Tape by Qmars Piraglu (santur) and a conference paper presentation at the 2007 Asia Pacific fetsival (26th Asian Composers League Festival & Conference), 8-16 February, 2007, Wellington, New Zealand, as well as performances of Sonus dulcis for Clarinet and Pianoforte by Duo Dicto (Ghent, Belgium) at the Harmonia Classica 25th anniversary Concert at the Bsendorfersaal, in Vienna, Austria, and La flor en la colina for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Violoncello and Pianoforte by the Onix Ensamble at the XXIX Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez, 2007 in Mexico City, Mexico. A Duo Dicto performance of Sonus dulcis may be viewed on YouTube. Tres Imágenes Norteñas for Shakuhachi and Harpsichord was also performed at the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) / Asian Composers’ League (ACL) World Music Days Festival, Hong Kong, 23 November – 2 December, 2007, as well as the presentation of a new work commissioned by Alister Barker (violoncello) and Michael Kieran Harvey (pianoforte).

Andrián's music has been published by Reed Music (Melbourne, Australia), Rhythmscape Publishing (Brisbane, Australia), Red House Editions (Melbourne, Australia) and the SCI or Society of Composers Inc. (New York, NY, USA). CDs have been released by Albany Records (Albany, NY, USA), Pueblo Nuevo/Laim/Cech (Santiago, Chile), Reed Music (Melbourne, Australia), Kostas Metaxas Recordings (Melbourne, Australia), Capstone Records (Brooklyn, NY, USA), Harmonia Classica (Vienna, Austria), Australasian Computer Music Association (Melbourne, Australia), and Agenda Edizioni Musicali (Bologna, Italy).

As an educator, Pertout has been a teaching composition and orchestration at the Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne since 2003. The Victorian College of the Arts has additionally employed him since 2006. In 2007, he also began working as a music engraver for the Lyre-Bird Press (Editions de l'Oiseau-Lyre), one of the world's foremost publishers of scholarly musical editions. Over the years he has also worked for the University of New England, Charles Darwin University and the University of Western Sydney as composition teacher, supervisor and examiner. He has conducted seminars at the College of the Arts and the University of Melbourne; not to mention seminars overseas at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand as part of the 2007 Asia Pacific Festival – 26th Asian Composers League Festival & Conference; at the Department of Music and Sinology of the University of Chile in 2003; and at the Indiana State University 38th Annual Contemporary Music Festival, USA as part of winning the 2004 ISU Contemporary Music Festival/Louisville Orchestra Composition Competition. At Indiana State University, he conducted a 50-minute seminar of his music as well as participating in other activities, such as a panel discussion and a pre-concert talk, while in May, 2005 he conducted a lecture at the University of Western Sydney discussing the topic ‘Pacific Conceptual Issues and Techniques’, as part of series of lectures involving five Australian composers that included Brett Dean and Liza Lim.

As a writer, he has published over 400 articles in music publications, such as Juke Magazine, Mixdown, Australian Musician, On the Street Melbourne, Music Trader, Spanish Herald, Drum Scene, Music Trader Online, Beat Magazine, 3rd Magazine, Metalshop Online and the Sunday Herald Sun, reviewing new musical technology, compact disc and book releases, as well as conducting interviews with prominent national and international artists including Herbie Hancock, Steve Reich, Joe Satriani, Mark Levine, Joe Zawinul, Melissa Etheridge, José Feliciano, Steve Vai, Mark Snow, Alf Clausen, Jimmie Vaughan, Ottmar Liebert, Mike Stern, Tom Coster, Bill Evans, Megadeth, Janis Ian (USA), INXS, Tommy Emanuelle, Savage Garden, Slava Grigoryan (Australia), Chitravina N. Ravikiran, Karaikudi R. Mani (India), Rick Wakeman, Fairport Convention (UK), Junkie XL (The Netherlands), Reinhard Flatischler (Austria), Paco Peña (Spain), Hossam Ramzy (Egypt), Sepultura (Brazil), Tony Pérez & Ramces Baralt (Cuba), and Inti-Illimani, Isabel Parra, Illapu (Chile), among many. [Download complete PDF List of Articles]

He is a member of the Australian Music Centre, Fellowship of Australian Composers, Melbourne Composers' League, Australasian Computer Music Association, SCI (Society of Composers Inc., USA), Asociación Na cional de Compositores de Chile, CECh (Comunidad Electroacústica de Chile), New Music North (Canada), and the Just Intonation Network, writer full member of APRA (Australasian Performing Right Association Limited), as well as the Australian delegate of the ACL (Asian Composers’ League) and secretary of the Melbourne Composers' League.