Hèctor Parra is one of the most internationally renowned Catalan composers. A member of the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici in 2021-22, he has premiered over a hundred works worldwide, commissioned by institutions such as the Philharmonie de Paris, the Louvre Museum, the Munich Biennale, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Stuttgart Opera, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. He has premiered eight operas with librettos by Marie NDiaye, Händl Klaus, Fiston Mwanza, or Pier Paolo Pasolini/Calixto Bieito, which have been staged by Bieito himself or Milo Rau. He received the National Culture Award in 2017, the Ernst von Siemens Composition Prize in 2011, the Donald Aird Memorial Award in 2007 from San Francisco, and the Tremplin Prize in 2005 from the Ensemble Intercontemporain, among others. He publishes his works with Durand/Universal Music Publishing Classical and Tritó. Together with the poet Arnau Pons, he was awarded the Alícia Prize in 2022 by the Catalan Academy of Music for the work Les Constellations de Miró.