The music of Peruvian composer Pedro Malpica has been described as “…a storm of blurry, jagged sound that seems to come from some distant, dangerous past… perhaps the strongest of an evening of generally strong work,” (David Salvage, Sequenza21), as well as “… impressive work, charged with energy and even a dose of humor… reaches hypnotic levels during the second movement of Exabruptos 2.” (Distinguished conductor Carmen Moral, Lundero Magazine)
Malpica has been performed in North America, Latin America and Europe, by ensembles such as the Peruvian National Symphony Orchestra, the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, the Uninorte Orchestra of Paraguay, ALEA III, the Hellenic Group of Contemporary Music, NEXTET, the Cygnus Ensemble, The Juilliard Pierrot Ensemble, and ECCE, in important venues and festivals such as the Tsai Performance Center, Alice Tully Hall (Lincoln Center), Paine Hall (Harvard University), the Juilliard School, the Oberlin Conservatory, the Composers Conference at Wellesley College, the CrossSound Festival in Alaska, Morelia Música Nueva, the III and IV Festival de Música Clásica Contemporánea de Lima, and the II Festival de Música Contemporánea de Asunción, among many others.
Malpica is a graduate of the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico, Boston University and The Juilliard School, and is currently finishing his Ph.D. at the Graduate Center in New York. He has studied composition with Alfonso Fuentes, Theodore Antoniou, Lukas Foss, Christopher Rouse, David Del Tredici and Tania Leon, and theory with Carl Schachter, David Kopp, Philip Lasser, Joseph Straus, Poundie Burstein and William Rothstein.