CV _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Rubén Castillo del Pozo is musician and performer specialize in Percussion based in the Netherlands. His interventions as a percussionist musician are in different paths such as Early Music, Classical Orchestra, Free Improvisation, and World Music. In domain of Early Music; projects with Orchestras and Ensembles (18de Eeuw Orkest, Amsterdam Baroque Orkest, Combattimento Ensemble, etc...) in field of Electronic Music with and without Percussion, Electro Acoustical Free Improvisation (with foundation of new NL based groups as DAMU and Y! TEAM) Theatre and Performing and Ensemble Playing (with foundation of 4& ensemble for electroacoustic percussion and performing, related to percussion field, sound installations and interdisciplinary collaborations) To be mention as well the participation in different projects with, among others, Het Residentie Orkest, CubanEuropeanOrchestra/CuE, Slagwerk den Haag, De Doelen Ensemble, The Veenfabriek, Asko/Schönberg, etc... He has perform variety of works, including works for solo percussion instruments, ensemble music, orchestra repertoire combined, or not, with fixed or live electronic media. He has done several interdisciplinary projects and collaborations with contemporary dancers and different field artists (sculptors, poets) Influenced by contemporary art and popular culture worlds, his interests explores the area of contemporary music re-evaluating aesthetics of contemporary artistic domains. Rubén Castillo del Pozo was born in Madrid, Spain, 1991. In 2009 Rubén moved to the Netherlands to start his studies at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague under Fedor Teunisse, Luuk Nagtegaal, Hans Zonderop and Peppie Wiersma ́s teaching. At KC he is graduated in both Classical Percussion and Sonology minor (the latter at the Sonology Institute Den Haag). In the Royal Conservatory he has followed lectures by composers as Hugo Wolf, Cornelis de Bondt, Kaija Saariaho and others, as well as leading contemporary music practitioners including Eriko Daimo, Colin Currie, Theun v Nieuwburg, Frank Ebstein, Koen Plaetnik, Pedro Estevan, Marinus Komst, Ali Ndiaye Rose, Luuk Naagtegaal, Pedro Carneiro, Víctor Mendoza, Antonio Domingo, Manel Ramada, Jose Luís González, Joan Castelló, Rafael Mas, Ignacio Molins, Elash Massali, Rafael Navarro and Madeleine Espinosa among others.
