Juan Parra Cancino

Juan Parra Cancino (b. Chile, 1979) studied Composition at the Catholic University of Chile and Sonology at The Royal Conservatoire The Hague (NL), where he obtained his Masters degree with focus on composition and performance of electronic music. In 2014, Juan obtained his PhD degree from Leiden University with his thesis “Multiple Paths: Towards a Performance practice in Computer Music”.
As a guitar player he has participated in several courses of Guitar Craft, a school founded by Robert Fripp.
His compositions have been performed in Europe, Japan, North and South America in diverse festivals and conferences.
Founder member of The Electronic Hammer, a computer and percussion music ensemble devoted to the promotion, creation and diffusion of the music of the XXI century, whose debut album was edited by the EMF label; he also performs in WireGriot, a duo of voice and electronics that seeks to (re)construct the repertoire for the media.
His work in the field of live electronic music has made him recipient of numerous grants from the Dutch government, through the NFPK and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.
Since 2009 Juan has been appointed as a Research Fellow of the Orpheus Institute Research Centre in Music (ORCiM) to work on the topics of creativity and performance applied to electronic music.