“Music is capable of approaching the mystery and the laws of the cosmos.”

After receiving the 9th BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Music and Opera, the composer Sofia Gubaidulina explores in this interview the power of music to transcend the everyday and connect with the mystery of the cosmos. Through examples from her work, she examines how sound can approach universal laws, drawing a parallel between musical structure and the architecture of the universe. Gubaidulina also reflects on the creative path, spirituality, and the relationship between artistic intuition and cosmic order, inviting the listener to view music as a bridge between the finite and the infinite.

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Contemporary Music category goes, in this ninth edition, to composer Sofia Gubaidulina, for the exceptional range and quality of her musical creation, which builds innovatively on a rich diversity of traditions and instruments to produce works imbued with a spiritual quality that is always personal and searching.