Arias´s work In Effigie, was performed by the Tonkünstler Orchestra at Grafenegg Festival (Austria) conducted by Luis Arias himself. He wrote a piece in 2022 for Tanglewood Music Center as Composition Fellow in Boston called Hyperconnected Fragmentations and, in that same year, he won first prize at the XXXIII SGAE-CNDM Young Composer Spanish Awards 2022 with his work Arya, where he became Resident Composer of the Music Youth of Spain 2023/2024. He obtained a second prize in 2018 in the same competition. In 2021 Arias was awarded Second Prize at 3rd International Composers Competition for orchestra “New Music Generation” of Kazakh National University of Arts. Also got a European Capital of Culture 2022 Commission for Luxembourg.

In Spain he has been performed by the Valencia Orchestra and the Valencia youth Orchestra, by the Ensemble Sonido Extremo and the Bilbao Sinfonietta. He has received commissions from the CNDM and from Granada’s Festival.

Luis Arias studied a master at Codarts University of Arts in Rotterdam with Robin de Raaff, and at Royal College of Music in London with Keneth Hesketh. He has met and received mentoring from Francisco Coll, Georg Friedrich Haas, Unsuk Chin, Dieter Ammaan and Mark Anthony Turnage.