Biography

José Sosaya Wekselman was born in San Pedro de Lloc, a town in northern Peru.

Magister en Composición y Nuevas Tecnologías from the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Diplome Supérieur de l’Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris.

Third place in the International Tapiola Choir Choral Composition Competition 2024 (Helsinki, Finland).

Since May 2024 he has been in charge of the Dirección de Innovación y Transferencia Tecnológica at the Universidad Nacional de Música (Lima).

In 2023 he was one of the seven composers chosen worldwide by the Duisburg Philarmonic Orchestra (cross-cultural composition project) to write a new work, which was premiered by the aforementioned orchestra at the Mercatorhalle in Duisburg in June 2023.

In 2020 he was commissioned by the Donaueschingen Global Project to write Tejidos Andinos for 10 instruments, a work that premiered in October 2021 in Donaueschingen (Germany).

Since 2019 he is Artistic Assistant of the National Symphony Orchestra (Lima) and he was Academic Director of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música (2003 - 2010).

In 1994 the Ministry of Culture of Spain awarded him a scholarship for the composition of an acousmatic work at the Laboratorio de Informática y Electrónica Musical in Madrid. In 1993 he was invited by the Groupe Expérimentale de Bourges to the International Symposium of Electroacoustic Music and Festival “Synthése 93” (Bourges-France).

During his career he represented Peru in several music meetings, such as the first Pacific Composers Conference (Sapporo, Japan, 1990), the First Andean Meeting and Contemporary Music Festival (Quito, Ecuador, 1993) and the II, III and IV International Seminar “Current Music-Traditional Instruments”, held in Santiago de Chile (2004), La Paz (2005) and Buenos Aires (2006).

Since 1987 he teaches at the Universidad Nacional de Música in Lima. In this same institution he founded in 1995 the Electroacoustic Music Workshop, and directed the Current Musics Workshop between 2008 and 2010.

His music, composed of orchestral, choral, chamber and electronic media pieces, has been performed in America, Europe and Asia.