Miguel Segura-Sogorb is a composer, music theorist and acoustic engineer born in Alicante, Spain. His musical education began partially as self-taught with percussion, was further enriched with the study of piano and violoncello, as well as his experience as a choir singer (Cor de Cambra Óscar Esplá, Jugendchor-akademie Wien, Ensemble Focus, Volta di Voci...), and continues today in the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. In 2018 he took the preparatory course for composition with Herbert Lauermann in this university and in 2019, after passing the entry examination, he could begin to study the Magister Artium Degree in Composition with Dietmar Schermann, which he continued with Detlev Müller-Siemens and most recently with Clara Iannotta, as well as receiving further training in piano, pipe organ, violoncello and electronics.
Regarding his audio studies, he obtained the Bachelor of Engineering in Sound and Image in Telecommunications in the University of Alicante (2011–2015) and afterwards a Master Degree in Digital Sound Production in CICE, School of New Technologies in Madrid (2016), where he also got the Avid Pro Tools Operator certification both for Music and Audio Postproduction. As a member of the Audio Engineering Society he could also attend to seminars on music production in Berklee Valencia and in the University of York.
Most of his early work experience was focused on the field of moving picture and theater, either as a composer or as an audio postproduction engineer. In this respect, he worked in several shortfilms, plays, a feature film, a TV series and video art creations. Furthermore, he played drums, wrote songs and arranged for seven years in the symphonic metal band Edhellen, with whom he toured through Spain, won First Prize in 2012 in the contest IV Certamen Nacional de Música del Distrito de Barajas in Madrid and released two studio albums in 2011 and 2016 (Sombra y anhelo and Aletheia I. Los pasos perdidos).
Most recently, he was commissioned to write the piece Nachtgesang (2022) for mixed choir for the Ensemble Schlüsselklang in Vienna. In May he was selected to participate in Jorge Sánchez-Chiong's masterclass with Ensemble N as part of the Suena Festival at Instituto Cervantes in Vienna. Furthermore, he was awarded two years in a row with the Composition Prize of the International Summer Academy (ISA) of the mdw, first for the piece Short studies of movement and colour (2022) and then for Danza de la luz sobre la montaña (2023). He participated in August 2022/23 in Detlev Müller-Siemens' masterclass as part of ISA and worked together with Ensemble Fractales from Belgium and the conductor Jean-Bernard Matter.
As a composer, he is being able to build synergies between all his technical and aesthetic sides and thus develop a multifaceted, personal artistic approach.
