Biography

Anibal Vidal is a Chilean composer based in London born in 1991. He holds a Master’s Degree in Composition with Distinction and an Artist Diploma in Composition from the Royal College of Music in London. Furthermore, he has received lessons from professors such as Bernhard Lang, Francesco Filidei, Liza Lim, Mark Andre, Lucia Ronchetti, Kenneth Hesketh, among others.

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His compositional pursuits resonate with both his Latin American heritage and classical training. Through these lenses, he aims to create a sound that speaks universally, whilst exploring curiosity, oddness and the strange.

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This year 2026, he is one of the nominees for the Gaudeamus award. He has been awarded the Ivors Classical Awards in the category Best Chamber Ensemble Composition for his trumpet chamber concerto ‘Invocación n.2: a Kintsugi Resurrection’. Vidal recently received the third edition of the Pisar Prize, awarded by The Juilliard School, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and Villa Albertine, which allowed him to premiere his orchestral work The Language that All Things Speak with Les Siècles at the Parisian theatre, which included a one-month artist residency at Juilliard School in New York with Axiom ensemble.

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More prizes, commissions and participations include DYCE commission in partnership with European Union, Divertimento ensemble, Cikada ensemble, Ensemble U and Taller Sonoro (Europe), Spitalfields Festival & The Carice Singers commission (UK), City of London Sinfonia commission, Musicians Initiative Commission, 1st Prize of 20th Joan Guinjoan International Prize (Barcelona), 2nd prize Matan Givol Composers Competition 2024 (Israel), RCM Concerto Competition, 17th SunRiver Competition Merit Award (China), Mise-En Call for scores (NYC), Manifeste Academy composer 2023 (Paris), Time of Music Festival composer 2023 (Finland), impuls Academy (Graz), Music Panel Composer (Croatia), Cheltenham Festival composer (UK), The Robert Anderson Trust Special Award (UK).​

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His compositions have been performed in Europe, America, and Asia,  collaborating with different groups such as the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Les Siècles, Quatuor Bozzini, Britten Sinfonia, Mise-En ensemble, MI Orchestra, East Anglia Chamber Orchestra, RCM Philharmonic, Orquesta de Cámara de Valdivia, The Carice Singers, Divertimento ensemble, Cikada ensemble, Ensemble U, Ensemble Taller Sonoro, Synchronos ensemble, Ensamble Fractura, among others.

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Vidal has been supported by PRS Foundation Music Creators Open Fund, Vaughan Williams Foundation, Hinrichsen Foundation, Anglo-Chilean Society, RCM Accelerate, the Robert Anderson Trust, the Lennox Hannay Charitable Trust Scholarship, Ministerio de las Artes y Culturas de Chile.