José-Luis Hurtado’s music has been performed worldwide by ensembles and soloists such as the Boston Modern Orchestra Project BMOP, International Contemporary Ensemble ICE, Jack Quartet, Talea Ensemble, Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien, Tony Arnold, Garth Knox, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne and the Arditti String Quartet among many others. He has been the recipient of Kompositionspreis der Stadt Wolkersdorf (Austria), Harvard University Green Prize for Excellence in Composition (USA), Julián Carrillo Composition Prize (Mexico), Rodolfo Halffter Instrumenta Ibero-American Composition Prize and 2nd prize in Troisieme Concours International de Composition du Quatuor Molinari (Canada). Grants include those from the National Endowment for the Arts of Mexico and the American Music Center. Hurtado holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University where he studied under Mario Davidovsky, Chaya Czernowin, Magnus Lindberg, Brian Ferneyhough and Helmut Lachenmann.