Composer and interior designer Rocío Cano Valiño’s musical production is dedicated to instrumental, mixed and electroacoustic pieces. She is a member of the artistic committee of the Ensemble Orbis, which is based in Lyon and she co-founded. Rocío’s music was performed by ensembles such as: Proxima Centauri, HANATSUmiroir, Ensemble Paramirabo, Ars Nova, Parcours, among others… She collaborated as a scenographer and 3D designer on the opera Qu’est-ce que l’amour? by composer Demian Rudel Rey.

Rocío is pursuing her Masters in Contemporary Composition at the Conservatoire national supérieur musique et danse de Lyon (CNSMD, France), where she studies with François Roux. She also takes lessons with Martín Matalon and Luca Antignani. She did an international mobility at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz (Austria) with Franck Bedrossian. Rocío obtained a Diplôme national supérieur professionnel de musicien (DNSPM) in composition at the CNSMD in Lyon, a Bachelor’s degree in musicology at the University Lumière Lyon 2, a Diploma of Musical Studies (DEM) in electroacoustic composition with Stéphane Borrel at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Lyon. In Argentina, she studied composition with Demian Rudel Rey.

She has received various commissions: Aide à l’écriture du Ministère de la Culture (FR); France Musique “Création Mondiale”, residency at the Groupe de recherches musicales (Ina-GRM) and premiered at the Festival Présences 2020 at the Maison de la Radio (FR); Fondo Nacional de las Artes (AR); Studio Césaré CNCM (FR); Ibermúsicas (AR-Latin America); Bahía(in)sonora Festival (AR); Sacem (FR); OARA (FR)…

Her works have received distinctions from: Destellos Foundation (AR), Banc d’Essai GRM (FR), Musicworks — First prize & Marcelle Deschênes Prize In Electronic Music (CA),, CIME (GR), TRINAC UNESCO (AR), Klang! (FR), Exhibitronic (FR), Rampazzi Prize (IT), Métamorphoses (BE), TRIMARG (AR), Prix Russolo (FR), among others. Rocío’s compositions have been selected and performed in various festivals around the world such as Festival Akousma, Festival Mixtur, CEMI Circles, Klingt gut!, MA/IN Festival, FILE, Phas.e, Festival Zéppelin…

In 2017, the label Resterecords released Tâches, her first monographic album. Rocío Cano Valiño’s music is published by Babel Scores, Score Follower, Musiques & Recherches, Monochrome Vision, Taukay Edizioni Musicali and Phas.e. La Lettre du Musicien published her “Portrait double vie” written by Antoine Pecqueur in the “Architecture” edition in 2020.

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