Academic

My academic work engages with computer-assisted orchestration, the semiosis of timbre, electronic music and unplugged electronics, and — more broadly — with articulating a coherent, contemporary discourse on timbre and orchestration.

Doctoral research

Currently engaged in the SACRe doctoral programme (CNSMDP · ENS-PSL, Paris), in partnership with the Haute École de Musique de Genève (HEM/HES-SO). My thesis develops the concept of Expansive Orchestration, where the entire orchestral fabric derives from a single element.

Thesis presentation (SACRe)  ↗ PDF

Publications

• 2026

  Garcia-Vitoria, M. & Vicalet, P. From metaphor to spectrum: hybridizing orchestration and electroacoustic pedagogy in higher music education. HarMArchive. ↗ link

• 2026

  Garcia-Vitoria, M. Triptyque du Cri. L’impact psychoacoustique du timbre comme matière de composition. Revue musicale OICRM, 13(1), 111–136. ↗ link

• 2025

  Garcia-Vitoria, M. Expansive orchestration as a teaching resource. HarMA Seminar — 4th Edition, 14–17. ↗ link

• 2012

  Carpentier, G., Daubresse, E., Garcia-Vitoria, M., Sakai, K. & Villanueva, F. Automatic orchestration in practice. Computer Music Journal, 36(3), 24–42. ↗ doi

ORCID  0009-0006-5417-8340

Conferences & talks

Teaching

• 2018 — 2024
  Conservatori Superior de Música Joaquín Rodrigo, València

  Composition & orchestration. Head of the composition, voice, conducting and sonology department (2020–2024).
• 2016 — 2018
  Conservatorio Superior de Música Óscar Esplá, Alicante

  Contemporary music.
• 2011 — 2016
  Haute École de Musique de Genève

  Counterpoint (2015–2016). Composition assistant (2011–2015).