Mauricio Pauly’s music has been performed, among others, by the Studio New Music Moscow, the Ikarus Chamber Players, the UMZE Ensemble, the East Coast Composers Ensemble, the Juilliard Pierrot Ensemble and various other groups and soloists in Costa Rica, USA, Hungary, Spain, Mexico, Russia and the UK. His new laboratory / pub-bashing bandensemble, ifVersionLinger, debuted recently in in Manchester. Upcoming commitments include the premiere in Budapest of ‘The Shutter Fails’ written for the Trio Lignum, a new piece commissioned by the Ikarus Chamber Players for which he has received a grant from the PRSFoundation/TheBlissTrust to travel to NY in November 2008. During this period he also composed music for Joris Iven’s Regen as part of a commission by the TEOR/éTica Foundation. Later in 2008 he will be working on a commission from the West Horn Conference, US for a piece for french horn, piano and computer to be premiered in January 2009 and on a new electroacoustic piece as well as in new repertoire for ifVersionLinger and the Manchester-based Kairos Electroacoustic Ensemble.
He is currently a researcher at the Novars Electroacoustic Music Research Centre at the University of Manchester, England and teaches electric bass and musicianship at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Previously, he studied in Heredia (Costa Rica), Miami, Boston, The Hague and Budapest with, among others Lukas Foss, Richard Cornell and Andrea Szigetvari. He has also taken lessons with Michael Jarrell, Marco Stroppa and Jonathan Harvey. Awards include the Esther Kahn Award 2004 from Boston University, first place at the VIII Pablo Sorozabal Composition Competition 2005 for his Cuarteto Alberto, and first place at the Budapest Clavicembalo Foundation Composition Competition 2005, for Forebe Aneba.