Eduardo Soutullo

[1] The jury awarded the prize to Soutullo for "the unanimous international recognition of his music especially his orchestral production, highlighting the premiere in Saint Petersburg of his antiwar cantata "The lament of sunflowers”.

Later, he moved to Madrid and to Paris completing his studies in Harmony and Composition with Isabelle Duha[3] (Conservatoire d'Issy les Molineaux-Paris XIII) He has studied musical composition with David del Puerto, Jesús Rueda, José Luis de Delás Franco [es] (Köln Conservatory), Richard Steinitz[4] (Huddersfield University) and with Cristobal Halffter and Tomás Marco (Villafranca del Bierzo, Spain).

He has a master's degree from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid,[5] and has a Doctorat (PhD) from the Universidad de Vigo (thesis about Spanish contemporary music)[6] He has been a professor at the Porto's Superior School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE)[7][citation needed] He has been composer in residence at Spanish Academy in Rome in the course 2019-2020[8] In February 2022, after the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, he began the composition of Threnus Helianthuses (The lament of sunflowers, a direct reference to Ukraine's national flower), a vocal-symphonic work whose lyrics are anti-war verses of the prominent Ukrainian poet Lesya Ukrainka[9] (1871-1913) translated into English.

This concert is held annually on the eve of March 11, the day on which the 193 victims of the attacks perpetrated in Madrid on that date in 2004 are commemorated, being broadcast live to the entire world from the National Music Auditorium by the RTVE Symphony Orchestra[15] (Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Televisión Española) He is also the author of the novel "Olozábal, el último zarzuelista, en el Madrid de la movida" published on Amazon (ASIN B08RRNGTDJ) and Smashwords (ISBN 9781005316792)[16][17] Musicologist Robert Fallon has written, "Eduardo Soutullo's triptych All the Echoes Listen, But in Vain and They Hear no Answering Strain, dedicates each movement to Messiaen, Takemitsu and Grisey.

Melodies in All the Echoes Listen have the "Chant d'extase" contour and They Hear no Answering Strain sounds a five-note descending octatonic scale in strings much like Le tombeau resplendissant.