Francisco C. Goldschmidt studied composition with Cirilo Vila and Aliocha Solovera at the University of Chile, as well as a Masters in the Theory and History of Art with the philosopher Dr. Sergio Rojas at the same University. He received a scholarship from the National Board of Chile for Culture and Art to study a Masters of Music and a Konzertexamen in Instrumental Composition under Johannes Schöllhorn at the Cologne University of Music.
He has received diverse awards, such as the finalist at the «Luis Advis 2007» competition, the support of CNCA of Chile in 2013/2016, the «RheinSilver Award 2014» in the framework of the New Talents Biennial of Cologne, the Second Prize at the Berlin’s «Felix-Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Award 2014», the Cologne’s «Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann-Scholarship» in 2016 and the support for four comissions by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation (2018/2019/2020/2023). In 2019 he was artist in residence at the Artists’ Village Schöppingen and was awarded at the «Forum junger Komponisten 2020» of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts of Munich. In 2025, he will work as a fellow of the Bartels Foundation in Basel. In addition, a Portrait–CD featuring his most recent works is also scheduled to appear in 2026 as part of the «Edition Zeitgenössische Musik Podium Gegenwart» series released by WERGO.
Francisco C. Goldschmidt lives and works in Cologne since 2011 both as a freelance composer and as the artistic director of the Kommas Ensemble. He taught in several music schools in Germany and since May 2017 he is docent for Guitar, Theory and Composition at the Ida Bieler Music Academy.
