One of the most prolific Chilean composers of his generation, with over 50 world premieres to date, Maximiliano Alejandro Soto Mayorga became the first Hispanic-American artist to receive the “Busoni” Composition Prize of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin in 2024 and one of the few Latin Americans to receive a scholarship from the Deutsche Bank Foundation Academy of Music Theater Today(2024-2026). In addition to the fellowship from the Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen (2024), he also received the Composer-in-Residency scholarship from the Valdivia Chamber Orchestra (2025), the Ibero-American Ibermúsicas Composition Prize (2023) and was selected twice for the SWR Symphony Orchestra Master Classes (2021, Freiburg; 2024, Stuttgart). Soto Mayorga also won the Ad-Libitum Prize of the Winfried Boehler Foundation in 2022 and 2024, the Neustart Kultur Scholarship (2022), theTONALi20 Prize (2020), the Klangspektrum Scholarship (2020), the DAAD Prize (2018), the PULSAR Prize(Chilean Copyright Society, 2018) and the “Carlos Riesco” Prize (Chilean Academy of Arts, 2016). He was also a finalist in the German DMW competition (2019, 2021). His works have been published by Sikorski/Boosey & Hawkes.

Soto Mayorga’s works have been performed by the SWR Symphonieorchester, Ensemble Mosaik (Berlin), Ensemble Aventure (Freiburg), Ensemble .abeceda (Ljubljana), Clash Trio (Freiburg) and other ensembles in Europe, Asia and Latin America. His works have been performed at festivals such as Forum Neuer Musik (Cologne), Vocations (Berlin), Ensems (Valencia), Nuntempa (Xalapa), .abeceda (Ljubljana) and others.

“At the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen I had the privilege of immersing myself in long nights of silent work, interrupted by eternal conversations around the fireplace, where I could expand my world, my dreams and nightmares. A house of shadows creeping along the walls, of winds that seem to howl between the cracks in the wood and the tiles of the roof. Of screams in silence. Of ghosts. I return home with a grateful heart because I have found such a place in the world, a refuge, a black market for ideas and memories, and hope to return one day.”