Xavier Bonfill

Xavier Bonfill is a Catalan composer and performer based in Copenhagen. His artistic output encompasses works for traditional instruments, electronics, video and other multimedia formats such as interactive websites and apps. In his works, a form of dialogue between different media and art forms is created between text, images, acoustic and electronic sound. Duality, opposition and even contradiction are a characteristic of his aesthetics: where the poetic is set against the immediately superficial, the extravagant against the intimate, the crooked against the naive. In 2022, he was awarded the Pelle Prize as ‘a talent who dares to defy contemporary norms’. Bonfill's music has been performed throughout Europe and in China, with notable performances by ensembles such as the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Avanti! Chamber Orchestra and Quatuor Diotima.