Iván González Escuder (Valencia, 1979) studied composition with Ramón Ramos Villanueva at the Conservatori Superior de Música in his hometown. After graduating, he moved to Stuttgart to pursue a Master’s degree under Professor Caspar Johannes Walter from 2009 to 2011, receiving a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for the 2010-2011 academic year. Following his studies in Stuttgart, he moved to Basel, Switzerland, where he completed a second Master’s degree in composition with Professor Georg Friedrich Haas from 2012 to 2014. He complemented his studies with an advanced course in electronics at the same city’s studio under Professor Erik Oña. Upon returning to Valencia in 2019, he completed his doctoral thesis at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), earning a PhD cum laude.

He has been awarded the second prize at the 2008 Amics del Liceu vocal composition competition (Barcelona), the first prize for composition (Essen Philharmonie Prize) at the prestigious 2010 Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, organized by the Deutscher Musikrat (Germany), and the first prize at the Fundación Autor – CNDM Young Composers Competition (Spain), the third prize in the XVII Weimarer Frühjahrstage Chamber Music Composition Competition (Weimar, Germany).

His works have been performed by groups and artists such as the Phoenix Ensemble (Basel), Ensemble Le Balcon (Paris), Ensemble Nostri Temporis (Kyiv), and Taller Sonoro (Sevilla), among others, and at festivals such as Unerhörte Musik (Berlin), Gaudeamus Music Week (Amsterdam), Musik Der Jahrhunderte (Stuttgart), and the Festival de Música Española (Cádiz), among others.