He was born in Córdoba (Spain) in 1998, he entered the conservatory of his hometown as violist. Quickly, he took his first steps the world of composition guided by Oscar Prados Sillero. He studies with Gabriel Erkoreka and Ramón Lazkano in Musikene – Superior Music Centre of the Basque Country and, currently, he is completing his studies with Gérard Pesson at CNSM Paris, where he practices, by the same token, electroacoustic composition with Yan Maresz and Luis Naon.

Interested in the dialogue between arts, particularly in the nexus and the possible exchange between sound and image, painting and sculpture, Manuel Hidalgo works frequently basing his music on visual references, carrying out a reflection on intertextuality, silence and relief of sound.

Sponsored by SGAE (General Society of Authors and Editors of Spain) and winner of the accordion composition competition “Francisco Escuerdo”, Manuel Hidalgo receive the advices from composers such as Peter Eötvös, Alberto Posadas, Stefano Gervasoni, Michael Jarrel, Hèctor Parra, Francesco Filidei o Raphaël Cendo. He has participated in the Voix Nouvelles academy – Royaumont Foundation, as well as in the Quatuor Diotima academy; and he has collaborated with groups such as Ensemble Recherche, MusikFabrik, Orchestre de Picardie, Ensemble Divertimento –as part of the “Rondó in Monferrato”– or the Belinfante string quartet, among others. The Musikene Kamerata, under the baton of Gabriella de Esteban, premiered in 2019 his chamber opera "La sangre y la piedra".

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