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(b. 1964, Bogotá).
Austrian composer, born in Colombia, of mostly orchestral, chamber and electroacoustic works that have been performed in the Americas and Europe.
Mr. Toro Pérez studied guitar privately with Carlos Ramírez from 1974–78, piano with Sergio Mesa from 1983–85 and composition with Luis Torres Zuleta from 1984–85, all in Bogotá, and studied music theory at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá from 1981–84. He studied composition with Erich Urbanner at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna from 1986–92 and also studied electroacoustic music there.
Among his honours are Erster Preis in the Tage der zeitgenössischen Klaviermusik in Vienna (1996, for Arco), Primer Premio in the Concurso Nacional de Música Electroacústica in Bogotá (1997, for Estudio de ruidos y campanas), a mention in the Concours International de Musique Électroacoustique de Bourges (1998, for Estudio de ruidos y campanas), the Staatsstipendium in composition from the government of Austria (1997), the Anerkennungspreis from the government of Niederösterreich (1999), and the Erste Bank Kompositionspreis in Vienna (2001, for Stadtplan von New York – Music after Adolf Wölfli). His music has been performed in Argentina, Austria, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland, and the USA.
He is also active in other positions. He co-founded with Johannes Kretz and Jorge Sánchez-Chiong the NewTonEnsemble for contemporary music in Vienna in 1996 and later served as its co-artistic director.
He taught at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna from 1999–2007, where he served as director of the course on computer music from 2002–07. He has lectured on electroacoustic composition at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in Zürich since 2007, where he has served as director of the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology since 2007. He lectured at the Ferienkurse in Darmstadt in 2012.
He has lived in Austria since 1986.
(http://www.composers21.com/compdocs/toroperg.htm)
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