Lautaro Mura Fuentealba is a versatile conductor and a prominent exponent of the new generation of Chilean orchestral conducting. He has worked with orchestras and ensembles such as Theater Bonn, Ensemble Modern, International Ensemble Modern Academy, Ensemble New Babylon, Kollektiv 3:6 Köln, Vertixe Sonora (Spain), Ensemble Vortex (Switzerland), United musicians of Lucilin (Luxembourg) among others. He also appeared with orchestras and ensembles from Chile, Argentina, Peru and Venezuela.
He has conducted in several festivals which include Acht Brücken, Wittener Tage für Neue Musik, Bielefeld Festival (Germany), Klangspuren Schwaz (Austria) or Gaudeamus Musikweek (Holland), as well as in international theaters.
Lautaro Mura Fuentealba has made a significant contribution to the diffusion and support of Latin American contemporary music in Europe as founder and musical director of Kommas Ensemble (Cologne, Germany) He is the artistic director of the in Frankfurt based Broken Frames Syndicate (Ernst von Siemens Ensemble Prize 2024), whose objective is the permanent search for innovation and revitalization of the present musical scene.
Lautaro Mura Fuentealba studied composition and orchestral conducting at the University of Chile. Since 2014 he has been living in Germany, in the city of Cologne, completing his studies in orchestral conducting at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf to later become a scholarship holder at the International Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt.
Lautaro obtained the first prize of the Graz International Conducting Competition & Masterclass 2014 (Austria), and is a finalist in the Atlantic Coast Orchestral Conducting Competition (Portugal). As a student he participated in prestigious master classes, with teachers such as Peter Eötvös, Heinz Holliger, Lothar Zagrosek, Helmuth Rilling, among others.