Alexandre Lunsqui’s music incorporates influences ranging from the spectralist practices to jazz and Brazilian music. He was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and studied at the University of Campinas, the University of Iowa, Columbia University, and IRCAM. His main teachers were Tristan Murail, Fred Lerdahl, and Augusto Mannis. His music has been performed widely by ensembles such as the New York New Music Ensemble, Ensemble Cairn, New York Philharmonic, Nieuw Ensemble Amsterdam, Arditti Quartet, Argento, Ensemble l'Arsenale, Camerata Aberta, loadbang, São Paulo Experimental Orchestra, Ensemble Offspring, Plurisons Ensemble, Ensemble Proton Bern, Arcomusical, Talujon, Third Coast Percussion, Lucerne Academy Alumni, etc.
Lunsqui has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Koussevitzky Foundation, Harvard Fromm Music Foundation, Ministry of Culture of France, National Foundation of Arts in Brazil, and Composers Conference among others. He has been composer-in-residence for the Chelsea Music Festival, Nief-Norf Music Festival, and a Civitella Ranieri Fellow (Italy). Currently, Lunsqui is a Professor of Composition and Theory at the São Paulo State University (Brazil) and a Visiting Professor of Composition at the Nanjing University of the Arts (China).