catalogue: SIEMPRE ES DE NOCHE AHORA
“The composer Eduardo Morales-Caso is a first class creator. The proof of this can be found in the CD of a series of works composed between 1990 and 2006, which the record label Verso has just brought out. In all of them we can find compositional elements of music as a higher art-form of language, of instrumental technique which is not only virtuoso, but also transcendent, of rhythms, harmonies, contrasts, expressivity….,- which only the music of a great composer is capable of achieving”. [Andrés Ruiz Tarrazona, renowned Spanish music critic; Diverdi – No. 169 – April 2008]
“Morales-Caso´s style, marked by an expansive and communicative creative freedom, in which influences and references are nothing other than the artist´s capacity of perception and selection within the surrounding sound landscape which nourishes his exceptional compositional imagination”. (Victoria Eli Rodríguez, Exceptional compositional imagination, Sibila 25, October 2007), has earned him significant international awards that confirm his consistent creative genius: First prize in the I International Symphonic Music Composition Contest “José Asunción Flores”, UNESCO-Paraguay (2000), for the symphonic work Homenaje guaraní; in the XIV International Classical Guitar Composition Contest “Andrés Segovia”, in La Herradura, Almuñécar, Granada (2001), El jardín de Lindaraja was awarded, premiered at the Okurayama Kinen Hall in Tokyo in 2001; he also received the prize in the First Edition of the International Piano Composition Contest ILAMS, London (2001) for Las sombras divinas; the prestigious “Oscar B. Cintas Foundation” in New York awarded him the “Cintas Fellowship 2003”, for the creation of his first concerto for guitar and orchestra The Domain of Light, published by the Catalan publisher PERIFERIA Sheet Music; and in 2018, he was awarded the “Silver Medal” at the “Global Music Awards” (California, USA) for his work Awake (Recitative and Aria for Soprano Solo). In 2024, his double CD ELEVEN ANGELS: CONTEMPORARY GUITAR received the Melómano de Oro award from Melómano magazine, which is dedicated to classical music. His works appear in recordings by internationally recognized performers under the labels NAXOS, ARMIDA RECORDS, FRAMEWORKS RECORDS, VERSO, ORPHEUS CLASSICAL, NEUMA RECORDS, NÎBIUS, EMEC, LINDORO, FUNDACIÓN AUTOR, and PICAP. In 2010, his monographic CD LAS SOMBRAS DIVINAS, featuring a selection of his extensive chamber music catalog, was included in Volume VII of the “COLECCIÓN FUNDACIÓN BBVA-VERSO”, dedicated to representative composers of contemporary music.
Morales-Caso holds a Doctorate in Music, awarded Sobresaliente “Cum Laude”, from the Complutense University of Madrid. He received a solid compositional education from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid (Spain) and the Higher Institute of Art in Havana, now known as the University of the Arts. In 2018, he received a commission from the INAEM and the National Orchestra and Choir of Spain to create his work Tres retratos: I. Tiziano, II. El Greco, and III. Velázquez, in commemoration of the bicentennial of the Museo Nacional del Prado (2019). His Mirada a la infinitud, commissioned by the Spanish Guitar Society, was recently published in ROSETA, the official magazine of the Spanish Guitar Society (2022).