Raquel García-Tomás is a composer specialising in interdisciplinary creation who completed her Doctorate at the Royal College of Music. Highlights of her career include collaborations with the English National Ballet, the Royal Academy of Arts, and the Dresdner Musikfestspiele.
In 2020, she received Spain’s National Music Award ‘for the interdisciplinary, innovative, and daring nature of a distinctive and unique compositional language’. In 2017, Raquel was honoured with El Ojo Crítico de Música Clásica, awarded by RTVE (Spanish Radio and Television Corporation) ‘for the originality of her artistic approaches and the use and combination of her musical language with new technologies and video creation’.
Her music has been performed in venues such as the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Auditorio Nacional de Música de Madrid, L’Auditori de Barcelona, Palau de la Música Catalana, Wigmore Hall in London, Queen Elizabeth Hall (Southbank Centre), Philharmonie Luxembourg, Het Concertgebouw, Wiener Konzerthaus, Musikverein, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Konserthuset in Stockholm, Müpa Budapest, and the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague. Her music has been included in festivals like the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Kunstfest Weimar, and the Lucerne Festival. Raquel has collaborated with ensembles including the London Sinfonietta, the Oslo Sinfonietta, and the PHACE Ensemble.
Raquel recently premiered Alexina B., during the 2022-2023 season at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona. This opera, awarded the Leonardo Grant by the BBVA Foundation and nominated for the International Opera Awards as Best World Premiere, was created with librettist Irène Gayraud and stage director Marta Pazos.
