Alfonso Guerra was born in Estepona (Málaga, Spain) in January 1992 and began his musical education at the age of twelve. In 2008, he moved to Granada, where he studied piano with Ramona Herrero and composition with Francisco González Pastor. In 2016, he received honours in orchestration under conductor Ángel Luis Pérez Garrido and was awarded an Erasmus+ scholarship to continue his studies at the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles. There, he worked with composers such as Daniel Capelletti and Michel Lysight, completing a Master’s degree in composition in June 2019.
F. Schubert, M. Ravel, J. Sibelius and J. Absil are among the composers who have most influenced Guerra’s musical language, in which one can also hear echoes of Andalusian music and references to contemporary trends such as video-game music and New Consonant Music.
In 2017, he won first prize in composition at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música “Victoria Eugenia” de Granada for his work Petite symphonie d’entre-temps for symphony orchestra, and was selected by the N.E.O Sound Modern Orchestra (Ohio, USA) for his piece Les Contes de Canterbury. Both works were performed in 2018, in Granada and Ohio respectively, to great acclaim. His catalogue also includes El diván del Tamarit for soprano and piano (2016); Vivo e trionfante for wind quintet (2019); and Calle Marqués de Larios for eight performers (2019) and for wind band (2021).
Since 2019, Guerra collaborates regularly with the European Philharmonia, creating numerous orchestrations and arrangements for large-scale symphonic productions. His work includes the tribute to Charles Aznavour, For Me, Formidable, the De Nationale Operette concert programme Wenen, New York, Parijs and, most recently, the highly successful Studio Ghibli in Concert, a tribute to the music of Joe Hisaishi. These productions have been performed in major theatres across Belgium, the Netherlands, and France.
From 2019 to 2021, he was a harmony teacher at the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles and, until 2024, worked as Network and Finance Manager at the Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikchoschulen (AEC), contributing to the development of higher music education across Europe.
