Manuel Alcaraz Clemente is a Spanish percussionist, specializing in the interpretation of contemporary music. He is mainly active as a soloist, chamber and ensemble musician, as well as an educator. Manuel is currently based in Graz, Austria.

As a soloist, his versatility ranges from playing classic contemporary music repertoire for percussion, to regularly working with young composers, who are recognized in the international contemporary music scene for the creation of new pieces and innovative interpretations.

Since 2016, he has been the percussionist of Ensemble Schallfeld (AT) and Noviga Projekto (PT/AT). In 2023 he joined the Ensemble Kontrapunkte in Vienna.

Besides his work in these formations, he freelances regularly with Contemporary Music Ensembles and Orchestras such as Klangforum Wien, Lucerne Festival Alumni, Ensemble PHACE, Recreation Grosses Orchester Graz and Mdi Ensemble, among many others.

In addition, he has performed in several festivals including the Lucerne Festival (CH), Wien Modern (AT), Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt (DE), Klangspuren Schwaz (AT), Afekt Festival (EST), Impuls Festival and Steirischer Herbst (AT) and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (EN).

He offers regularly workshops and masterclasses for composers and percussionists in Austria, Portugal, Spain and Slovenia.

Manuel received his Bachelor Degree at ESMuC (Catalonia College of Music, Barcelona). In 2015, he completed his Master in solo performance at ESMAE (Oporto, Portugal). In January 2018 he completed the Master Program ‘PPCM (Practice and Performance of Contemporary Music)’, where he worked alongside the members of Klangforum Wien.

Since 2019 Manuel is Marimba One™ Educational Artist.


Guest player at:

Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (Lucerne, CH)

Ensemble PHACE (Vienna, AT)

Münchener Kammerorchester (Munich, DE)

Klangforum Wien (Vienna, AT)

Der Gelbe Klang (Munich, DE)

Mdi Ensemble (Milano, IT)

Ensemble Barcelona 216 (ES)

Ensemble Kontrapunkte (Vienna, AT)

Drumming percussion group (Porto, PT)

defunensemble (Helsinki, FI)

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn (Tallin, EE)

Recreation Grosses Orchester Graz (Graz, AT)

NAMES, New Art and Music Ensemble Salzburg (AT)

Stavanger Symphony Orchestra (NO)

Synergein Projekt (Valencia, ES)

Graz Philharmonic Orchestra (Graz, AT)

Cadaques Orchester (ES)

Büro Lunaire (Vienna, AT)

Arxis Ensemble/Percussion Group (A Coruña, ES)

Szene Instrumental Ensemble (Graz, AT)

Ensemble Platypus (Vienna, AT)

Ensemble Zeitfluss (Graz, AT)

etc.


Festivals/Concert series:

Lucerne Festival (CH)

Salzburg Festival (AT)

Wien Modern (AT)

Warsaw Autumn (PL)

ENSEMS (SP)

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (EN)

Styrian Autumn (AT)

Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt (DE)

KLANG concert series, Musiikkitalo, Helsinki (FI)

Klangspuren Schwaz (AT)

Ljubljana New Music Forum (SLO)

Afekt Festival (EE)

Impuls Festival (AT)

Festival Circular (PT)

Taschenopernfestival Salzburg (AT)

Musik Protokoll (AT)

Giga Herz Preis (DE)

Festival Roma Europa (IT)

Festival Grec (ES)

Quincena Donostiarra (ES)

Festival Aperto Reggio Emilia (IT)

Dias de Musica Eletrónica (PT)

In Takt Festival (AT)

Resis Festival (A Coruña, ES)

Real Time Festival (DE)

etc.