Leonardo Idrobo

Biography

Born in Colombia, August 22, 1977.
1995-98 Conservatory at Colombian National University
Roberto García, Horacio Lapidus, Hegberto Bermúdez, Angela
Rodríguez and Blás E. Atehortua, among many others.
1998-2000 Occasional analysis lessons with Rodolfo Acosta R.
End of 1998 gives up his studies in Colombia
2001-06 Basel Music Academy
Composition lessons with Detlev Müller-Siemens and Erik Oña
Other subjects with Dorothé Schubarth, Roland Moser, Hanspeter Aeschlimann, Markus Jans, Hans Saner and Jakob Ullmann, among others.
2006-07 ICST Zürich
Gerald Bennett
Seminars, courses and workshops in Colombia, Spain, Hungary, Germany and Switzerland, as well as composition master classes with Coriun Aharonian, Graciela Paraskevaidis, Klaus Huber, Beat Furrer, Michael Jarrell, Jonathan Harvey, Marco Stroppa, Mark Andre, Brice Pauset and Helmut Lachenmann, among many others.
2008 Assistance to Jakob Ullmann in the realization of the electronic part of his piece «PRAHA: celetná-karlova-maiselova».
His music has been played in the Americas and Europe by ensembles such as Tambuco, Ensemble Phoenix, Ensamble CG, Ensemble Proton Bern, Quatuor Voce, Eunoia Quintet, Ensemble Aventure, Geneva Camerata, Ensemble L'Itinéraire, UMS’n JIP, Ensemble Le Balcon, Trio Klick, Basler Madrigalisten and by the Basel Symphonic Orchestra, and at festivals and concert series such as Archipel (Geneva), Biennale di musica (Venice), Lucerne Festival, Forum Wallis, Foro Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez (Mexico City) and Musikfestival Bern, among a few others.
He lives in Basel with his wife, son and daughter.