Joan Arnau Pàmies is a composer, a multi-instrumentalist, and a performing artist. His music has been described as “beautiful in the Aristotelian sense of proportion and harmony” (Revista Musical Catalana) and “chaotic and elemental yet discernibly balanced” (The New York Times). During his formative years, Pàmies received multiple scholarships, which allowed him to study composition and theory at the New England Conservatory in Boston before receiving his doctorate from Northwestern University. This outstanding academic training brought him to develop a highly sophisticated musical style, stemming from a wide variety of genres such as modernist music, free jazz, noise rock, and electronic music. Known for their extreme technical demands and complexity, Pàmies’s scores have been performed by exceptional new music ensembles, including the JACK Quartet, Fonema Consort, Ensemble Recherche, and Ensemble Dal Niente. His pieces have been featured in major international festivals such as Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, MATA, Ear Taxi, Foro de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez, Ostrava New Music Days, and Darmstädter Ferienkurse. An artist who relentlessly walks uncharted musical paths, Pàmies has also been performing as an electronic musician since 2019. His album "Nocturnes, fantasias," published by Chicago label Sideband Records, has been deemed to connect “Stockhausen’s electroacoustic music of the 50s and 60s to experimental techno” (Mundoclásico).