“highly sensory and evocative music, characterized by emotional tension, surreal sound textures, and narrative transformations, requiring intense inner listening and tactile virtuosity from the performer.”
— Léo Warynski Conductor, Festival Ensemble(s), Paris (2024)


“A music of strong evocative force, in which echoes of nature merge with dense, at times noise-based sonorities, forming a unified and compelling acoustic landscape.”
— Gianluigi Mattietti Music Critic, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik (2024)

Agustín Castellón Molina (Concepción, Chile) is a composer based in Leipzig. In his work, texture and form function as primary modes of articulation, inviting performers into a somatic relationship with sound. His work operates at the thresholds of dyschronia in temporal perception, shaped by affective contrasts and hypnagogic states, centered on timbre as generative substrate and morphological axis.

Castellón Molina has received commissions and institutional support from organizations including ARCO – Art, Research and Creation (Austria/France) and the Sächsischer Musikbund, in collaboration with the Deutscher Komponist:innenverband (Germany). He is the recipient of international awards such as the Förderpreis der LEIPZIGSTIFTUNG and the “2 Agosto” Orchestral Award (Italy).

His music has been performed by Ensemble Recherche, Schallfeld, IEMA, Studio Dan, Les Métaboles, Divertimento, Multilatérale, and the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and presented at festivals such as Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik (Witten), Klangspuren (Schwaz), Rondò (Milan), and Festival Ensemble(s) (Paris). His work has been broadcast by WDR 3, Rai Radio 3, and ORF Ö1.

He completed postgraduate studies at the HMT Leipzig, Germany (Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Fabien Lévy) and the ESML Lisbon, Portugal (Luís Naón), and earned his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the Conservatorio N. Piccinni in Bari, Italy (Luca Belcastro). His artistic development has been shaped through direct exchange with Chaya Czernowin, Francesco Filidei, Justė Janulytė, and Sara Nemtsov.

Photo: ©Leo Zwiebel