Mauro Godoy Villalobos
C o m p o s e r
Villalobos started studying guitar at the Music Conservatory “Civica Scuola Di Musica Claudio Abbado” in Milan with maestro Aldo Minella. In Sweden Mauro continued to study composition with Johan Hammerth, Henrik Strindberg and Per Mårtensson. He has also received lessons from visiting guest professor Sven-David Sandström.
Villalobos’ compositions both solo works and orchestral pieces have been performed worldwide on a regular basis. His compositions include works for solo guitar, duos with piano, chamber music, choral music, works for string orchestra, wind orchestra and symphony orchestra.
Villalobos has been awarded multiple scholarships and have won nine international
composition competitions. Among others:
- 1st Prize Mozart on…International Composition Competition - Osaka, Japan 2016
- 1st Prize Claxica International Composition Competition - Bologna, Italy 2015
- 1st Prize conDiT Concerts of Technological District -Composition Competition,Buenos Aires, Argentina 2014
- 1st Prize CGSV's Villa-Lobos International Composition Competition - Melbourne, Australia 2014
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Sheet Music
Un café con Astor for two guitars
Dedicated to Duo Pace Poli Capelli (IT)
Si, lo siento for solo guitar
1st prize at the International Composition Competition:MOZART ON..COMPETITION Osaka, Japan 2016
Anawen for guitar and string quartet
1st prize at the International Composition Competition, Claxica - Bologna, Italy 2015
Homage to Heitor Villa-Lobos
1st prize in the 2014 Classical Guitar Society of Victoria Composition Competition 2014 in Australia
Primera Línea for two guitars
2nd prize in the 2020 Veria International Composition Competition, Greece
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News
Ensemble Getögon
January 2025
"La vigencia de una imagen contundente" has been selected by the Swedish ensemble Getögon's Call for Scores 2025 to be premiered and recorded this year.
Call for Scores 20251st prize at Veria International Composition Competition.
December 2024. Veria, Greece.
1st prize at Veria International Guitar Duo Composition Competition
Greece - VIGF1st prize at Malmö Forum International Composition Competition
November 2024. Malmö, Sweden.
1st prize at Malmö Guitar Forum composition contest for classical guitar and string quartet.
Malmö- Ida Presti 100ISCM World New Music Days in Portugal
October 2024. Lissabon, Porto, Portugal.
MOODS for string orchestra has been chosen by an international jury to represent Sweden at the World New Music Days in Portugal 2025. October 2024
ISCM PortugalÖgonblick ur mitt Liv, Heliga Birgitta- music by Mauro Godoy Villalobos
July 12–19. 2024
Music-monologue “Ögonblick ur mitt Liv, Heliga Birgitta” by Sandra Ottander (actrice) and Sonja Ander Slootman (direction)! They will play it all summer but I will be there on the 13th and 14th of July! Music by Mauro Godoy Villalobos and Peter Floor.
Ögonblickurmittliv.seRecommended works
June 2024. Finland.
A large number of entries was submitted for the V International Uuno Klami Composition Competition. The competition office received no fewer than almost 230 works, 37 nationalities. The jury has also drawn up a separate list of good works that did not reach the finals.Habitat for guitar and Orchestra by Mauro G-Villalobos has been chosen for this list of recommended works.
selected worksMy violin duo piece will be performed in New York
Jun 7, 2024. New York, USA.
Miolina will present compositions that explore the nature of wood in connection with the exhibition TALL TIMBER: The Future of Cities in Wood! Works by Dan Cooper, Dorothee Eberhardt, Mauro Godoy Villalobos, Jesse Jones, Sunny Knable, and Jessie Montgomery.
Violin concertoContact
- Brännkyrkagatan 112, Stockholm, Sverige