“[The heart’s] energy became perceptible in Nante’s composition through constant sounds and movements as life energy, without its beat clumsily pushing into the foreground. Rather, the symphony turned into an emotional bath in the stream of being – which Nagano kept under tension. […] The texts for the symphony come from both Eastern and Western traditions. […] Nante added his own poetry to the traditional texts. Particularly impressive: the choir set itself in motion in the epilogue, walking through the Elbphilharmonie between the audience.” – Welt, Stefan Grund, 1 July 2025 – on Anāhata, premiere on 29 June 2025 at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.

Nante’s extensive oeuvre is characterized by a nocturnal and dreamlike atmosphere which opens the door to a spiritual world. Born in Buenos Aires in 1992, he has already firmly established himself in the concert halls with his work. In 2025 his third Symphony Anāhata, a celebration of the heart symbol, was premiered in ElbPhilharmonie by the Staatsorchester Hamburg conducted by Kent Nagano, with the singers Mojca Erdmann, Evan Hughes, the organist Olivier Latry and the Audi chor.

In 2024, As the first recipient of the Prix Pisar – in collaboration with The Juilliard School, Villa Albertine and Théâtre des Champs Elysées – his piece A Subtle Chain was premiered by the soprano Jodie Devos and the orchestra Les Siècles conducted by François Xavier Roth.

In 2022 El Río de Luz was premiered by Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel and O nata lux by the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano under Kent Nagano.

Three major works for the Orchestre National de Lille were heard as part of his 2021 – 2023 residency:  Sinfonía del cuerpo de luz, conducted by Alexandre Bloch and nominated to Victoires de la musique classique, his second symphony Mystérion, for orchestra, choir, and vocal soloists, conducted by Ben Glassberg and Luz de lejos – a piano concerto for Alexandre Tharaud conducted by Emilia Hoving, recently released in Tharaud’s album “Concertos” (Erato/Warner Classics).

Alex Nante was a fellow at the Herrenhaus Edenkoben until December 2021, where he composed a new string quartet for the JACK Quartet. At the beginning of 2021, his string quartet Prima Materia was premiered at the Lucerne Festival with the Quatuor Diotima.

Current projects include two monographic CDs, one with Ensemble Écoute (Label B records) and the other with Vanessa Wagner (Label La Scala). His Bach homage Ein feste Burg will be premiered on October 2025 by the Dresdner Philharmonie conducted by Kent Nagano.

Alex recently founded in Buenos Aires the vocal ensemble Terra Lucida of Vocación Humana, which he conducts. The purpose of the ensemble is to interpret sacred music of East and West, with the aim of contributing to interreligious and intercultural dialogue, as well performing regularly in hospitals and collaborating in various social projects.

In addition to Terra Lucida, Alex was as well the co-founder of Ensemble Écoute of the Cité Universitaire de Paris, Ensemble Awkas and Orquesta Amigos de la Nueva Música.

The Argentine, who is also trained as a guitarist, pianist, and conductor, has studied with Sir George Benjamin, Peter Eötvös, Stefano Gervasoni, Luis Mucillo, Santiago Santero, and Daniel D’Adamo, earning a doctorate from King’s College London and degrees from the Conservatoire de Paris, the National University of the Arts of Argentina, Université Paris 8 and the Conservatoire de Reims.

The first major premieres of Alex Nante’s works took place in relation to his numerous early awards. These include compositions such as Fulgor, (1st Prize 2010 Daegu Contemporary Music Orchestra Competition, South Korea) Tres sueños lúcidos (1st Prize “Guillermo Graetzer” composition competition 2013, world premiere with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional 2017), La pérégrination vers l’Ouest (Orchestre National d’Île de France, Compositions Prize Île de Créations 2015 and Premio Nacional 2018) and Helles Bild (Sinfonieorchester Basel, 2^nd prize Basel Composition Competition 2019). Several works were written in 2018 as part of the Peter Eötvös Mentoring Program; among others, the flute concerto de luz y sueño was premiered with the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Two major commissions followed in 2019: Invocación was premiered by the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires at the Teatro Colón and Las noches de las piedras was launched by Ensemble Musikfabrik under Peter Eötvös in Cologne. Also in 2019, Alex Nante received the Prix de composition de la Fondation Salabert for Estrella de la mañana, based on poems by Jacobo Fijman –  an example of the influence mystical poetry from East and West present in many of his vocal works.

His film music received distinctions in festivals in Spain and Argentina, such as the scores written for Sebastián Alfie’s The Kaiser of Atlantis and for Alejandro Fadel’s Murder Me, Monster.

Alex Nante’s works have been recorded by distinguished artists and ensembles. About his CD Le Fil d’Ariane, which is a juxtaposition of his music with that of Pietro Locatelli, made in collaboration with violinist Marianne Piketty and Le Concert Idéal, Le Monde wrote enthusiastically, “each page of our young contemporary is a masterpiece of sensitive diffraction, as intelligently composed as it is deeply felt.”

Alex Nante received the support of Académie des Beaux-Arts – Institut de France, Mozarteum Argentino, Ibermúsicas, Académie Musicale de Villecroze and Fondation Banque Populaire.

His works are edited by Durand / Universal Music Publishing Classical and Éditions Henry Lemoine.

Alex is represented by Karsten Witt Musik Management.