Luis Miguel Delgado Grande

Colombian musician, music theory university teacher assistant and composer. 

Luis Miguel Delgado Grande (b. 1990, Bucaramanga, Colombia) is a composer, violinist, and artistic researcher currently based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His work moves between composition, performance, and sound art, exploring how listening can become a space for memory, encounter, and transformation. Through sound, he investigates the intersections of temporality, collective experience, and urban life, often creating works that unfold in collaboration with performers, audiences, and specific places.

Delgado Grande’s music has been performed internationally by ensembles including the JACK Quartet, Quatuor Diotima, International Contemporary Ensemble, Sigma Project, TACETi Ensemble, Barcelona Modern Ensemble, and 3MC Ensemble (Poland). His works have appeared at festivals and institutions such as Festival Mixtur (Spain), Ticino Musica Festival (Switzerland), NUNC! / Northwestern University New Music Conference (US), Thailand New Music and Art Symposium (Bangkok), 27th International Review of Composers (Belgrade, Serbia), and the 1st Binational Colombia-Russia Concert (Nizhni Novgorod, Russia). His music has also been presented at US universities and venues including University of Pittsburgh, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Sacramento State University, and Roulette (Brooklyn, NY).

Alongside his compositional practice, Delgado Grande engages in artistic research centered on collaborative processes, collective memory, and relationality within urban and sonic contexts. His work questions the social role of musical creation and the ways sound can foster shared reflection and new forms of coexistence.

He has been recognized with fellowships and awards from the Banco de la República de Colombia (Jóvenes Compositores 2025), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Humanities Center and Humanities Engage programs at the University of Pittsburgh, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Ministry of Culture of Colombia. He has also received residencies and commissions from the Government of Santander, Copiuensemble (Ibermúsicas, Chile) and the National Center for Contemporary Arts in Nizhny Novgorod (Russia).

Delgado Grande studied composition with Blas Emilio Atehortúa in Colombia and later at the Centro Superior Katarina Gurska, attached to the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid (RCSMM), where he worked under Alberto Posadas, Aureliano Cattáneo, and José Luis Torá. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Composition and Music Theory at the University of Pittsburgh, studying with Eric Moe, Amy Williams, and Charles Peck.

His music is edited by Babel Scores.