Born in Pachuca, Mexico, Alberto Sánchez Ortiz started studying music at the Hidalgo State
School of Music in 2002. In 2007, he studied composition and theory at the Center of Research
and Musical Studies (CIEM) in Mexico City, with Victor Rasgado. Also in 2007, he got a
bachelor degree in Musical Theory, Literature and Criticism, endorsed by the Trinity College of
London. He has attended workshops and master classes with composers as Ignacio Baca
Lobera, Georgina Derbez, Felipe Waller, Peter Ablinger, Tristan Murail, Stefano Gervasoni,
Annette Vande Gorne and Jaime Reis.

His music has been selected in four editions of the International Forum of New Music Manuel
Enriquez (2007, 2008, 2012 and 2017). In 2008, his orchestral piece Ometeotl was selected as
the winning work of the 2nd Young Composers Competition organized by the Philharmonic
Orchestra of the Americas in New York. In 2017 he was accepted in the New Music Program of
the International Brazilian Opera Company in New York. Alberto has worked as a freelance
composer, arranger, guitarist in the Hidalgo State Guitar Quartet and teacher in universities in
Pachuca and Mexico City. In 2019 his piece Elegía was performed in Barcelona during the
Mixtur Festival and Phonocamptica I was premiered during the Sounds Around Me Festival in
Vienna.

In 2020, he graduated Cum Laude of the Master Program on Composition at Codarts,
University of the Arts Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, studying with Friso van Wijck and René
Uijlenhoet.