UE composers from Spain

Adrián Rosado (Torrevieja, Spain, 1994) is a Spanish composer and percussionist. He began his percussion studies at age 12 with Jose María Pastor. As a percussionist, he has performed with several orchestras and wind bands, performing around Europe. At the moment, he is finishing his Music Composition degree at Real Conservatorio Superior de Música Victoria Eugenia, in Granada. He studies composition techniques with Juan Cruz Guevara and electroacoustic composition with José López Montes.

Defined as a compelling musician, Galician cellist Alejandra Díaz is prize winner of the Carnegie Palmer Award of the Worshipful Company of Musicians and finalist of the Pablo Casals International Award. In March 2022 Alejandra is appointed the Associate Principal Cello of the Israel Symphony Orchestra, the resident orchestra of the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv. After being awarded the LSO String Experience Scheme in 2013, Alejandra becomes the first Spanish cellist in history to perform alongside the London Symphony Orchestra, as part of two tribute concerts to Claudio Abbado and Pierre Boulez at the Barbican Hall. Alejandra performs under the baton of internationally acclaimed conductors like Dan Ettinger, Valery Gergiev, Sir Colin Davis or James Gaffigan, to name a few. Alejandra completes the Guildhall Artist Masters of Performance in 2014 under Prof. Ursula Smith and the Bachelor Degree with Honours by the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2011 under Prof. Oleg Kogan.

Brais González is one of the most eclectic pianists of his generation. His career has always been split between classical performance and an exciting journey as a composer and sound creator who always seeks to bring together different stylistic universes, from contemporary music to folk, indie or film music. His compositional work synthesises all these worlds; in them, Brais proposes a promenade through soundscapes always built around improvisation.

Born in Vigo in 1987, Brais began his piano studies in his hometown with professors Aleksandras Jurgelionis, Aldona Dvarionaité, and Ricardas Biveinis, with whom he also studied composition. He continued his training at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg (Austria) under the direction of pianist Rolf Plagge, completing his studies at the Conservatorio Superior de Vigo with Severino Ortiz and the Conservatorio Superior de Oviedo.

As a composer, his symphonic works have been performed by different Spanish and Portuguese orchestras and conducted by maestros such as Javier Viceiro, Christopher Bochmann, Iminas Kucinskas and Isabel Rubio. His chamber works have been performed in Venezuela, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Latvia and Germany. In addition, he is the artistic director and leading composer of Caspervek Ensemble, a group devoted to silent film live music, with which he has performed in more than a dozen European countries. In August 2022 he premieres at the Festival delle Nazioni in Città di Castello his first opera: "Loba Branca".

He has also developed an extensive career in different genres such as folk, jazz, electronic or improvised music, collaborating with artists as diverse as Peter Arnesen, the indie band Cervan, the Gharbo Orchestra or Nelson Quinteiro and writing music for other arts such as poetry or theatre. He has collaborated with the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Galicia and with different theater collectives such as CinemaSticado.

Since 2017 he co-directs the online radio show "Anónimo IV", focused on musical research and dissemination. 

Daniel Serrano was born in Jaén (Spain) in 1991. After completing his violin studies at Musikene in San Sebastián, he moved to Vienna, where he studied composition with Wolfgang Suppan and Michael Jarrell, harmony with Dietmar Schermann and music theory with Gesine Schröder at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He has been teaching music theory courses at the Leonard Bernstein Institute of the same institution since October 2018.

He also attended various composition academies such as Impuls Academy in Graz, ARCO - Art, Research and Creation in Marseille, Luxembourg Composition Academy, 4th International Young Composers Academy of Ticino Musica in Lugano, Trabant Workshop for Composers in Basel, International Composition Masterclasses by MotoContrario in Trento, International Composition Masterclasses by L'Orchestra Sinfonica d'Este in Ferrara and the outHEAR New Music Week in Larissa, where he took lessons from Beat Furrer, Isabel Mundry, Alberto Posadas, Stefano Gervasoni, Yann Robin, Johannes Maria Staud, Frédéric Durieux, Franck Bedrossian, Elena Mendoza, Philippe Leroux, Oscar Bianchi, Francesca Verunelli, Ivan Fedele, Dimitri Papageorgiou and Orestis Toufektsis.

He was also awarded 1st prize in the Fanny Hensel Composition Competition in 2015, 3rd prize in the Mauricio Kagel Composition Competition in 2016 and 1st prize in the GMTH Kunstwettbewerb in 2017. He also received the Nikolaus-Fheodoroff-Composition Prize of the Province of Carinthia in 2017, the Prize of Honour of the mdw in 2020 and the State Scholarship for Composition of the Republic of Austria in 2022.

His works are performed at the Carinthian Summer, Philharmonie Paris, Vienna Days of Contemporary Piano Music, Wien Modern, rainy days, ORF Radiokulturhaus, Wiener Konzerthaus, Alte Schmiede, Schloss Laxenburg, Brick-5, Reaktor, Mondi Sonori Festival, Instituto Cervantes Wien, Suena Festival and outHEAR New Music Week as well as by performers such as Klangforum Wien, PPCM Graz, Ensemble Multilatérale Paris, Ensemble PHACE, Ensemble Webern Wien, Ensemble Prisma Wien, United Instruments of Lucilin, Company of Music, Platypus, Quatuor Diotima, Ensemble Phoenix Basel, MotoContrario, L'Orchestra Sinfonica d'Este and ensemble N.

Of the latter, he is chairman and co-founder.

The Spanish composer and percussionist David Moliner has been described as one of the most complete European musicians of his generation. Born in 1991 in Cuenca, Spain, he studied with Pascal Dusapin at the Haute École de Musique de Genève and with Jörg Widmann at the Universität der Künste and Barenboim Said Academy in Berlin.

Early in his career, Moliner began to develop a compositional aesthetic that has enabled him to pioneer new genres and to invent new forms. He has been implementing this aesthetic, which he calls “dynamism,” in a series of works titled Eglogas, Masquerades, Mystiques, Estructuras, Entes and Esoterics. “Dynamism” originates from Moliner’s experience as a percussionist who, like singers, uses the body to make music. His transition from performance to composition took place within this context. Moliner’s formal compositional ideas are rooted in gestures and movements he first learned as a percussionist.

Orchestral and chamber music figures prominently in Moliner’s oeuvre to date, which is published by Universal Edition. His instrumental compositions have a strong theatrical element, expressing a dramaturgy that emphasizes the physical aspect of music.

Moliner’s works have been performed by such orchestras as the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, West Divan Orchestra, Valencia Symphony Orchestra and Spanish Youth National Orchestra, as well as by such ensembles as the SWR Vokalensemble, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Recherche and Plural Ensemble. Moliner also enjoys a close association with such soloists as the clarinetist/composer Jörg Widmann, for whom he has written a concerto; Moliner in turn has performed Widmann’s music as a percussionist.

As a percussion soloist, Moliner has performed his own percussion compositions at such concert venues as the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the KKL Luzern, the Philharmonie in Paris and the Guggenheim in Bilbao.

Among the distinctions Moliner has garnered are first prize at the Vibraphone Competition of the Italian Percussion Arts Society, the Universität der Künste Berlin Composition Prize commission and the Roche Young Commissions Award presented by Lucerne Festival.

Thomas May / Written in August 2023

-Càrcer (Valencia) 1977. Obtained degrees in Composition and Percussion in Valencia, Film Scoring at Berklee College of Music in Boston (USA) and Master's in Orchestral Conducting.

-He has won around 20 Composition Awards nationally and internationally, highlighting "Hellenikon Idyllion" (Athens 2004 Olympic Games), Villa de Madrid Award (2005), Young Composers Competition (Belgium 2007), Daniel Composition Competition ( Tel Aviv, Israel 2008) Iberoamerican Composition Award (2010), Singapore Wind Band Competition (2018), or now the Pure Music Composition Competition in Vienna (Austria, 2021).

-He has premired numerous symphonic compositions around the world, and has conducted numerous Symphonic (Orchestra and Band) and Choral groups. His record label is abundant, especially with band and chamber music, and he has also published various books, most notably the two volumes of Ejercitación Armónica in 2009 and 2011 as well as the autobiographical book Inspirat per Càrcer (2021).

-He has been part of numerous juries in composition competitions, band competitions, oppositions to the teaching staff and has participated in the development of new educational plans for music teaching.

-He is currently Professor of Composition at the Berklee College of Music (Valencia Campus) and the Professional Conservatory of Music of Valencia.

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I’m a pianist, a teacher, but deep down, a composer. I studied with Ramón Coll and Josep Colom. I’ve also studied with Dr. Rosalyn Tureck – I was chosen to be her only student, and received training from her at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy, during the 'Settimana Bach' in 1997. Later on, visiting her in Oxford (UK).

• First prize in Spain’s 'Infanta Cristina-Trofeo Loewe' piano competition in 1988. • First prize in 'Marisa Montiel' of Linares in both Junior and Senior sections. • Finalist in the 1987 edition of UER’s Young Musician Competition (in which I starred in the 'Musiquísimos' program on TVE1). • Third prize in 'María Canals' de Barcelona international competition (Piano Juniors 1989, for young pianists). • Unanimous Honorable Mention in the 'Kawai-Caja Postal' Award in 1989, when I was 15 (the contest had an age limit of 25). • Tenured Professor (by public service exam) since 1992 (when I was 18 years old) of the faculty of Professional Conservatories of Music.

My 'Diez Nocturnos para piano' have been reviewed, compiled and published in 2022, also by the Madrid team of EMEC. They draw an intimate and autobiographical portrait of the evolution of my compositions over the past two decades. They have been published in two volumes (The first featuring Nos. 1 - 5 and the second, Nos. 6 - 10), along with analog versions intended for digital commerce (these also divided into unitary formats). And in autumn 2023, Guillermo joined the roster of composers published by the Austrian company Universal Edition.

During the 2000s, I had the privilege of being taught by the extraordinary Maria João Pires, who premièred part of my work during her Spanish tour with her duo partner, Ricardo Castro, culminating in the Scherzo-El País Foundation’s 'Ciclo de Grandes Intérpretes' in May 2004. This experience shaped my aesthetic orientation at the same time further thanks to Pires’ ethical and artistic teaching, as well as the continuous example provided by her life work.

Joan Gómez Alemany begins the Bachelor in Composition with Oliver Rappoport (Conservatori del Liceu) and finishes it with Clemens Gadenstätter (Kunst Universität Graz). He has a Master’s in Composition (KUG) with Franck Bedrossian and a Master’s in Opera and Musik-Theater (KUG) with Gadenstätter. He also has a Degree in Piano, starting at the Conservatori Superior de València Joaquín Rodrigo and finishing at the Conservatori del Liceu and a Degree in Fine Arts (Universitat Politècnica de València). He is currently making a PhD (UPV) with a thesis on artistic interdisciplinarity. From 2018 to 2020 he had Pierluigi Billone as his private teacher. He received individual lessons with composers Mark Andre, Raphaël Cendo, Brian Ferneyhough, Ashley Fure, Dmitri Kourliandski, José Manuel López López, Michael Maierhof, Hèctor Parra, Alberto Posadas, Jorge Sánchez-Chiong, Yann Robin, José María Sánchez-Verdú, Rebecca Saunders, Mauricio Sotelo, among others. Gómez Alemany combines musical creation, visual arts and cinema, in continuous dialogue, with writing essays and criticism mainly on music and art.

His compositions have been commissioned or heard at festivals such as the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, impuls (Graz), ManiFeste-IRCAM (Paris), reMusik.org (San Petersburg), Mixtur (Barcelona), Ensems (València), COMA (Madrid), Klang (Copenhague), Lens Dans Festival (Brussels), MPArt Festival (Larissa, Greece), Festival Spaziomusica Project (Cagliari), Festival Vertixe (Vigo), Festival After Cage (Pamplona), Rafel Festival (Rafelbunyol), Àgora Actual Percussió (Xàbia), Mostra Sonora Sueca, Festival Contemporani d'Alacant, etc., and performed by musicians or ensembles such as Arditti, Nikel, Recherche, Multilatérale, Schallfeld, Adapter, Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble, Lumina Ensemble, Vertixe Sonora, Parcours, MCME, Delirium, Synergein Project, Grupo Cosmos 21, Container, Aer Duo, Amores Grup Percussió, IEMA, Szene Intrumental, Alxarq Percussió, BCN216, Shifter and soloists such as Ulviya Abdullayeva, Arturo Barba, Xelo Giner, Tomeu Moll-Mas, María Rubio, Avelino Saavedra, etc. As a pianist improviser he has collaborated with John Butcher, Bartolomé Ferrando, Josep Lluís Galiana, Jesús Gallardo, Amadeu Marin and the CIM.CS. His music has also been premiered by orchestras such as SWR under the direction of Gregor Mayrhofer and JOGV under the direction of Pablo Rus Broseta. In 2022 it was premiered his chamber opera (interdisciplinary project) Glücklich, die wissen, dass hinter allen Sprachen das Unsägliche steht at the Graz Opera with conducter Leonhard Garms. His music has been broadcast on ORF, SWR, RNE, À Punt FM, Catalunya Ràdio and Radio Círculo de Bellas Artes. For now, his catalogue of compositions consists of more than 80 works, some published on 10 CDs by Liquen Records, IBS Classical and Viajero Inmóvil Ex]p[rimental. His music has been heard in Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Russia, Spain and Swiss.

Gómez Alemany has written music for several short films, stands out L'Arrivée by Peter Tscherkassky and Millares 1970 by Elvireta Escobio and Manolo Millares. Some of his sound and visual works have been shown in museums such as the Pompidou Center, IVAM, MuVIM, CCCC Centro del Carmen, Fundación Antonio Pérez - Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Cuenca, Fundación Luis Seoane, MARCO de Vigo, MACA de Alicante, etc., highlighting his individual exhibition entitled Between the visual and the sound. Reappropriation of matter and material in the Fundación la Posta and Límites de la limitación on the website of the Chamber Orchestra of the Auditorium of Zaragoza («Grupo Enigma»). He has given lectures, participated in tables or presentations at the Universitat de València, Universitat Politècnica de València, MuVIM, Octubre Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Galería Punto, Casa de Cultura de Xàtiva, La Central (Museo Reina Sofía) and Conservatori Superior de València and Castelló. He has written in several specialized magazines, like Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Melómano, Ritmo, Eufonía, AusArt (UPV/EHU), Itamar (UV), BRAC (UB), Procedimentum and Sul Ponticello, where he writes monthly since 2018 in his own section Intercciones. He has been coordinator and writer of the book Valencia y la abstracción, construcciones con geometría y color. Trayectoria vital y creativa del artista Vicente Gómez García (1926-2012), and also Vicente Gómez García, en el décimo aniversario de su fallecimiento, an artist of whom he has curated three exhibitions for the MuVIM Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts of Xàtiva and the Sala de la Cultura de Xàtiva. Together with Alfonso de la Torre he has written the book Cartas en torno a Manolo Millares, Pablo Palazuelo y otros, as well as FERNANDO ZÓBEL. Las razones de la belleza, and with Paco Yáñez Cartografías de la música contemporánea. Ensayo, crítica e interdisciplinariedad en los siglos XX y XXI, all published by EdictOràlia. He has also been coordinator of the digital book A book about Festival Mixtur for the commemoration of its tenth anniversary. As an individual author, he has published the books CUATRO ENSAYOS SOBRE CINE. Docuficción, vídeo-carta, vídeo-ópera e interdisciplina for Generis Publishing and Música y sonido en el cineasta-compositor Charles Chaplin: Un análisis interdisciplinar de su pensamiento y trabajo artístico (de lo sonoro a la imagen) for Editorial Académica Española. He has written CD booklets for the labels Ondine Records, Liquen Records, IBS Classical and KRB Studios.

He has collaborated with the art critic Alfonso de la Torre with musical proposals for the exhibitions he has curated, such as Reinas negras of the Fundación Martín Chirino, Arte y espiritualidad. Imaginar lo extraordinario of the BBVA collection and WITH HANDS, SIGNS GROW of the 59th Biennale di Venezia. Regarding the visual arts, Gómez Alemany specializes above all in the field of cinema, photography and painting, in continuous hybridization. His filmography consists to date of more than 10 short films, 3 medium films and 4 long films. Among his short films, it is worth highlighting Cancionero y romancero de ausencias about Miguel Hernández and in collaboration with the poet Manel Rodríguez-Castelló. CONTINUUM XXI: TRACES in collaboration with the composers Alberto Arroyo, Alberto Bernal, Sergio Blardony, Manuel Sánchez García, Carlos Rojo, José Mª Sánchez-Verdú and the ensemble Continuum XXI. The short film inspired by La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas, Arma del diablo, cabeza de sin, destrucción del paraíso was premiered in the Sala Berlanga (Madrid) and it has been part of his chamber opera. Among his long films, stands out De Rerum Natura that was premiered in Facultad de Bellas Artes (UPV) and Temps i espai. Un dia s'eleva, 2018-2022 (premiered in Filmoteca de València) with the painter Josep-Marí Gómez Lozano, who for years has been filmed repainting a canvas by Vicente Gómez García for the exhibition La Casa de la Ciutat i el Bon Govern in the Exhibition hall of the Valencia City Council.

José González Granero  is a Spanish-American multi–Award winning composer and clarinetist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His upcoming premieres as a composer include a premiere at the Teatro Real (Royal Opera House, Madrid) and at The Grand Teton Music Festival in Wyoming. His music is exclusively published with Universal Edition.

Mr. Granero's compositions have been widely performed and premiered in North America, Europe and Asia by orchestras such as Académie Festival d'Aix—en—Provence, San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, Stanford Philharmonia, Santa Cruz Symphony Orchestra, London City Orchestra, and the University of Granada Orchestra. Mr. Granero has also received commissions from chamber music ensembles such as Music in May Chamber Music Festival (USA), Farallon Quintet (USA), Proemium Metals (Spain), clarinetist István Kohán (Hungary-Japan), Ensemble SF (USA) and Stanford Philharmonic Orchestra (USA). 

Mr. Granero’s skill and talent as a composer has been recognized across the globe. In both 2020 and 2022, he was a two time finalist in the Bartók World Composition Competition in Hungary, he received an honorary mention for his 2nd String Quartet in the 2020 Bartók World Composition Competition. A number of other accolades have been given to him, including 1st prize Winner of the Villiers String Quartet International Composition Competition (UK), 2nd prize in the ‘Ville de Comines-Warneton’ composition competition (Belgium), and two nominations for the Hollywood Music Awards. 

As a clarinetist, Mr. Granero has further been honored by a number of awards, including the Grand Prize for Exceptional Talent and Musicianship in the Pasadena Instrumental Competition (2009), 1st prize in the Burbank Philharmonic Concerto Competition (2009), 2nd place in the Downey Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition (2009), and 2nd prize in the Pasadena Instrumental Competition (2008).

In addition to his awards, Mr. Granero has had a lustrous career as a composer and clarinetist. Notably, he was Principal Clarinet of the Andalucia Philharmonic Orchestra (Spain) from 2005 - 2007. He has also performed as Principal Clarinet with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra (Norway), Odense Symfoniorkester (Denmark), Young Musician Foundation Debut Orchestra (USA), Galicia Symphony Orchestra (Spain), City of Granada Orchestra (Spain), Orchestre des Jeunes de la Mediterranee (France), and the European Union Youth Wind Orchestra (Luxemburg). Mr. Granero also had the privilege of touring as a soloist with UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, performing Mozart Clarinet Concerto throughout Spain. In addition, he is an active chamber music player and has performed with Susan Graham, Music@Menlo, Oregon Bach Festival, Music in the Vineyard, Music in May and EnsembleSF.

Presently, Mr. González Granero holds the Principal Clarinet position with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra.

Josep Maria Guix (Reus, 1967) studied History of Art in Barcelona University (UAB), Music Theory and Composition in Badalona Conservatory, electronic music in Phonos (Barcelona) and computer music in IRCAM (Paris). He received lessons and advice from Benet Casablancas, David Padrós, Joan Guinjoan, José Manuel López López and Jonathan Harvey.

His works have been awarded in several occasions: X Premi Internacional de Composició “Ciutat d’Alcoi” (Spain, 1995), Premio SGAE Jóvenes Compositores (Spain, 2000), Concurs Innovamusica (Andorra, 2008), Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award (USA, 2010), I Concurs Internacional “Festa de la Música Coral” (Barcelona, 2015), Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra call for scores (Los Angeles, 2018), II Certamen Internacional de Composición Coral UAH (2022).

His teaching activities in Barcelona include Institut Pedralbes, Conservatori del Liceu, Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC). From 2007 till 2011, he has been artistic director of the Music Festival “Nous Sons".

His music has been recorded and published by Neu Records: CD-book Images of broken light.

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Juan José García Escudero is a composer and researcher based in Madrid (Spain). He received his musical education at several centers and conservatoires and studied composition with Francisco Guerrero Marín in Madrid. He has carried out research and teaching activities in mathematics, physics and music technology at various universities. The results of his studies in the fields of algebra, geometry and astronomy - published in scholarly journals and books - have been some of the main guides to formalization procedures. Harmonizations of aperiodic ordered temporal sequences, which constitute the basis of formal and rhythmic structures play a major role in many of his instrumental and acousmatic works. More recent formal approaches are related to the analysis of topological invariants of aperiodic tiling spaces and the construction of singular hypersurfaces in algebraic geometry. Extramusical influences are connected mainly with philosophy, poetry and visual arts. His music has been programmed in international festivals and concerts in Europa and America.

Dr. Leandro A. Martin is a Spanish-Argentinian composer, researcher and professor based in Canary Islands. He studied with Mariano Etkin, Coriún Aharonián and Ramón Pelinski. Also, he takes courses with Poul Ruders, Gian Paolo Luppi, Simon Bainbridge, Ertugrul Sevsai, Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic, Gianni Lenoci, among others. He gave lectures and presented pieces in Spain, Cuba, Germany, Argentina, Italy, England, Bulgaria, etc. His works were premiered by instrumentalists such as ensemble mosaik, Gustavo Díaz-Jerez, Nordic Voices, Ensemble Difracción, Alain Bourguignon, Javier Lanis, Mintcho Mintchev, Esther Ropón, among others.

He was selected to premiere a piece in WNMD of ISCM in 2024, and to record a piece with Phace Ensemble conducted by Nacho de Paz this summer.

He taught at Universidad Nacional de La Plata, VIU, Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias and nowadays, he is Professor of Composition in Conservatorio Superior de Navarra and PDI at Universidad de La Laguna.Dr. Leandro A. Martin is a Spanish-Argentinian composer, researcher and professor based in Canary Islands. He studied with Mariano Etkin, Coriún Aharonián and Ramón Pelinski. Also, he takes courses with Poul Ruders, Gian Paolo Luppi, Simon Bainbridge, Ertugrul Sevsai, Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic, Gianni Lenoci, among others. He gave lectures and presented pieces in Spain, Cuba, Germany, Argentina, Italy, England, Bulgaria, etc. His works were premiered by instrumentalists such as ensemble mosaik, Gustavo Díaz-Jerez, Nordic Voices, Ensemble Difracción, Alain Bourguignon, Javier Lanis, Mintcho Mintchev, Esther Ropón, Nuevo ensemble de Segovia, Nexus piano dúo, among others. He was selected to premiere a piece in WNMD of ISCM in 2024, and to record a piece with Phace Ensemble conducted by Nacho de Paz.

He taught at Universidad Nacional de La Plata, VIU, Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias and nowadays, he is Professor of Composition in Conservatorio Superior de Navarra and PDI at Universidad de La Laguna.

Full-time composer after more than thirty years as an associate professor at the University of Extremadura and in various Spanish conservatories, notably the Conservatory of Cáceres, where he taught harmony, musical analysis and composition and was director of the centre. He holds a degree in Composition and Music Pedagogy from the Royal Conservatory of Madrid. Over the years he has combined composition with teaching, creating music for different audiovisual media, ballet, symphonic music, music for soloists, saxophone ensemble, choral music, etc. His main challenge has been to find his place in the world of composition, with an eclectic and understandable language, because he believes that communication with the public is above all and his main objective is to move them. The time has come for the heart and the soul, the mind and the body to retreat.

Composer and conductor originally from Los Palacios y Villafranca (Seville, Spain), he has recently been awarded the prestigious Fundación BBVA Becas Red Leonardo 2021 in the area of Music and Opera as composer, he is holding with idealistic determination and success both career as both a conductor and a composer, and he is often seen as one of the young spanish artist who has most widely projection both inside Spain and worldwide in the field of Opera, Symphony and Dance, he is currently . highlighting as one of the main guest directors of the Spanish National Ballet. His most recent work as a conductor and composer has included the Taiwan National Opera House and conducted the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, the Teatro de la Maestranza de Sevilla, Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofía de Valencia and the Orquesta de la Comunitat Valenciana, the Spanish National Ballet or the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza Aterballetto.

Manuel Martínez Burgos is an award-winning composer who has received 20 international prizes, including the Jean Sibelius Prize in Finland, the Isang Yun Prize in South Korea, and the Osgood Memorial Prize from the University of Oxford. Jury members at these competitions, composers such as Lachenmann, Murail, or Saariaho have all praised his compositions as being universes of sound, full of expressive power and imagination. His music is performed worldwide by orchestras such as the Oxford Philharmonic, the Seoul Philharmonic, or the National Orchestra of Spain. Martínez Burgos holds a PhD in composition from the University of Oxford. He is professor in composition at the Higher Conservatory of the Principality of Asturias (Spain) and is tutor in composition at the University of Oxford. He has been visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, Erasmus teacher at the CNSMD in Paris, and has lectured at the Chopin University, the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and the Sibelius Academy.

Marc Migó’s fascination with music and composition blossomed during his teens after his grandfather gifted him a big classical CD collection, with Mozart’s Requiem remaining a personal favorite. Born in 1993 in Barcelona, he studied piano privately with Liliana Sainz and music theory with Xavier Boliart, leading to his acceptance in the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya where he continued his studies with Salvador Brotons.

In 2017, Marc was accepted into The Juilliard School as a CV Starr Fellow to pursue his master’s in music. While at Juilliard, he was awarded the 2018 Orchestral Composition Prize, and would win the prize again in 2021. Following his enrollment in Juilliard’s inaugural Opera Lab program (2020), Marc received a commission from UrbanArias in Washington DC to compose an original opera with librettist John de los Santos as part of the Decameron Opera Coalition. The resulting work, The Roost, premiered later that year and was inducted into The Library of Congress’ Performing Arts COVID-19 Response Collection. After receiving his master’s degree, Marc continued his compositional studies with John Corigliano in pursuit of his doctorate, which was awarded in 2024.

Marc’s other commissions include The Fox Sisters (2022, libretto by Lila Palmer) for The Liceu, Concerto Grosso "The Seance” (2022) for Verità Baroque, L’Illa Deserta (2023) for the Foundation for Iberian Music at CUNY, Faust [working title] (2021) for Dutch National Opera, and his first symphony (2024) for Metamorphosen Berlin.

In addition, he has received the Pablo Casals Award (2019), the George Enescu Prize (2020), Organ Taurida Competition’s First Prize (2021), the inaugural Dominic Argento Fellowship for Opera Composition (2021), and the Leo Kaplan Award (2023.)

Marc’s music has premiered and been performed in prestigious venues around the world, including Bunka Kaikan (Tokyo), Alice Tully Hall and National Sawdust (New York City), Konzerthaus (Berlin), Palau de la Musica (Barcelona), L’Institut de France (Paris), and Tchaikovsky Concert Hall (Moscow). Moreover, he has worked with prestigious soloists, conductors, ensembles and orchestras, such as Osmo Vänskä, Salvador Brotons, Verità Baroque, Marisa Gupta, Mark Prihodko, Max Tan, Oliver Triendl, the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, the Barcelona Symphonic Band, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Metamorphosen Berlin, and the New Juilliard Ensemble, among others.

Marc Migó currently divides his time between Barcelona and New York City.

Mateo Soto was born in Cartagena (Spain) in 1972. He studied Composition at "Manuel Massotti Littel" Conservatory of Murcia with Manuel Seco de Arpe (Franco Donatoni's pupil), graduating with honours. He also expresses his gratitude to Salvador Brotons, Tomás Marco and Antón García Abril for their advice. He doesn't want to forget about the great Alfred Schnittke who he almost studied with.

He has received composition awards such as "SGAE Award 1993" (Spanish Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers), "Frederic Mompou International Award 1996" (Joventuts Musicals of Barcelona) and "Tribuna de Jóvenes Compositores 1997" (Juan March Foundation, Madrid). He has been selected in some editions of “Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame” (USA), Isang Yun Centennial Project 2017 (USA), "250 Piano Pieces for Beethoven" (Germany), NETZWELLEN Social Media Piano Project 2017 (Germany),etc. He is winner of the Vonk Miniature Opera Project 2017 (Netherlands) and the “Sound-Magical-Space – S.M.S.” 2018 promoted by Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Camerata Bern (Switzerland).

His music has been performed by international players, ensembles and orchestras such as Leonel Morales, Albert Nieto, Diego Fernández Magdaleno, Gabriel Escudero Braquehais, Sussanne Kessel, Martin Tchiba, Eunmi Ko, Kristin Leitterman, Paolo Carlini, Frano Kakarigi, Trío Mompou, Trio Bacarisse, Quartetto Bernini, Quatuor Tana, Spanish Brass Luur Metalls, Concertus Novo, Grupo LIM, Vonk Ensemble, Columbus Ohio Discovery Ensemble, London Chamber Group, London Consorts of Winds, Incontro - Ensemble für Neue Musik, Orquesta Sinfónica de Cartagena, Orquesta de Jóvenes de la Región de Murcia, Orquesta de la Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Orchestra Montecatini Terme, Camerata Antonio Soler, Camerata Bern, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, etc.

He has been at festivals and musical cycles such as the Contemporary Music Festival of the XX Century Music (Bilbao), Juan March Foundation Cycles, National Musseum and Arts Center Queen Sofia (Madrid), Spanish National Auditory of Madrid, CIMUCC, Conway Hall Cycles (London), Festival Musicale di Montecatini Terme (Italy), Boccherini Open (Italy), Festival Armonie della Sera, (Italy), Piano Stravaganza Festival (Bulgaria), Centre ArcA (Luxemburg), November Music (Netherlands), Willem II Concertzaal (Netherlands), Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Mannheim (Germany), Randfestspiele für Neue Musik (Germany), Moscow Conservatory (Russia), Australian National University, Boston Conservatory (USA), Manhattanville College (USA), Miami Dade College (USA), University of North Georgia (USA), Oklahoma State Univesity (USA), University of South Florida (USA), etc.

ost of his works have been recorded and broadcasted by RNE (Spanish National Radio), BNR (Bulgarian National Radio), SR 2 KulturRadio Saarbrücken (Germany). His works are published by Donemus (Netherlands) and Universal Edition (Austria).

He is member of SGAE (Spanish Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers) and CIMMA (Society of Composers and Music Researchers from Región de Murcia, Spain). He teaches Harmony, Musical Analysis and Fundamentals of Musical Composition at Cartagena's Conservatory (Spain).

Born in Palma/Illes Balears on 11 May 1977; Mateu Malondra Flaquer is a composer, guitarist, researcher, programmer, curator and cultural manager who lives between the Balearic Islands and the United Kingdom.

He has had the fortune of working with musicians such as Arditti String Quartet, Vertixe Sonora, Bcn216, dissonArt, Ensemble Exposé, Insomnio, Mdi Ensemble, Plural Ensemble, Riot Ensemble, Vocalensemble NOVA, UMS’nJIP, Neus Estarellas, Mark Knoop, Takao Hyakutome, Tatsuki Narita, Jan Gerdes, Pilar Fontalba and conductors such as Gerry Cornelius, Beat Furrer, Yasuaki Itakura, Taco Kooistra, Fabián Panisello, Ulrich Pöhl, Roger Redgate, Robert HP Platz, J.M.Sánchez Verdú and Michel Tabachnik.

His music has been performed in such forums as Cairo Contemporary Music Days, Donaueschinger Musiktage-Next Generation, Forum Wallis, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, IMD-47-Internationale Ferienkurse für neuen Musik-OS, Festival Mixtur, Nact der Neuen Musik, NUNC2!, Unerhörte Musik, Sintése, Musikprotokoll-ORF and in such halls as L’Auditori-Barcelona, BKA-Theater Berlin, Concertgebouw Brugge, MISE-EN Place, Muziekcentrum First Philips, Studio Noru, Tokyo Opera City Recital Hall and Spectrum, among others.

Malondra started his composition studies with David Padros and Christian de Jong in Barcelona. In 2004 he moved to Maastricht where he did a BAMus and MMus in composition at ZUYD-Maastricht Conservatory, under Robert HP Platz. He also holds a BAMus in classical guitar performing from Den Haag Royal Conservatoire, under Enno Voorhorst. Malondra developed a PhD research at Kingston University-London, under the guidance of Paul Archbold and Oded Ben-Tal. Prof.Philip Grange and Prof.Roger Redgate awarded him the PhD in 2021. Masterclasses with Richard Barrett, Daniel D'Adamo, Brian Ferneyhough, Beat Furrer and Wolfgang Rihm.

Associate professor at Conservatori Superior de les Illes Balears between 2016 and 2021–Mixed media I-II and electroacoustic composition.

Between 2019 and 2022 he has been the Cultural Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Institut d'Estudis Baleàrics, PC of the Illes Balears public sector. It has been a period where Malondra worked to implement changes in the public structures related to culture, research and innovation. Furthermore, he has been able to contribute to designing the current and future policies for the culture of the Balearic government. Mateu Malondra developed an active role in restructuring the relationships with regional, national and international institutions. Likewise, the situation derived from the COVID health crisis pushed him to be very flexible, resilient and resolutive. During this period, among other partnerships, he developed a collaboration with Martin Matalon, IRCAM and the Balearic Islands Symphony Orchestra.

Mateu Malondra has been the founder, artistic director and coordinator (2013-2019) of the ME_MMIX Festival, co-founder of the non-profit association Placa Base and the ensemble Placa Base Collective.

Recordings: Takao Hyakutome's solo debut CD, at label Chanpd’Action. Tomeu Moll solo debut CD. Vokalensemble NOVA/Musikprotokoll CD-ORF. Netherlands National Radio-4, Concertzender.nl and Relevant Tones-USA broadcasted his music.

Malondra’s music has been performed in Egypt, Europe, Iceland, Japan, México, the UK and the USA.

Recipient of a commission funded by Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung.

Mauricio Sotelo (1961) is today one of Spain’s most prominent and internationally recognized composers. The premiere of his opera El Público, a work commissioned by Gerard Mortier for Madrid’s Teatro Real, at the Teatro Real itself in February 2015, was met with critical acclaim by the international press and an enthusiastic reception by the audience.

Sotelo studied composition with Francis Burt at the university of music in Vienna, graduating with distinction as winner of the “extraordinary prize” in 1987. He also studied electroacoustic music with Dieter Kaufmann and conducting with Karl Österreicher. He was further coached by Luigi Nono, a composer of continual inspiration for his work.

Sotelo, over the course of his career, received numerous awards for his music including the Spanish national music prize in 2001, the Reina Sofía international prize for composition in 2000, the Ernst von Siemens Foundation’s composers prize in 1997 and composition awards from the cities of Hamburg, Cologne and Vienna.

Mauricio’s works have been performed by many different orchestras and ensembles including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony, the SWR Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna RSO Symphony Orchestra, the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Spain, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, St Paul Chamber Orchestra, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Klangforum Wien, MusikFabrik, Ensemble Modern, Artemis Quartett, Cuarteto Casals and Quatuor Diotima, as well as by soloists including Juan Manuel Cañizares, Enrique Morente, Nicholas Hodges, Juan Carlos Garvayo, Joan Enric Lluna, Benjamin Schmid, Tabea Zimmermann or Patricia Kopatchinskaja, to name but a few.

His music has been published since March 1991 in the Universal Edition catalogue together with works by Bartók, Mahler, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern and Pierre Boulez.

Since 2010, Mauricio acts as professor of composition at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC), as well as guest lecturer at institutions in Austria, Argentina, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States. Mauricio Sotelo is also a member of the Consejo Superior de Enseñanzas Artísticas, an advisory body to the Spanish Ministry for Education and Culture.

In 2011 and 2012 Mauricio Sotelo was the first Spanish composer to be invited as a Composer in Residence at the prestigious Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. 2018 saw the awarding of his life's work and career with the GamoMusica Award from the city of Florence/Italy. Sotelo ,furthermore, acted as a Composer in Residence at the Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical (CNDM) as well as the 71st Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada in 2021 and 2022 respectively.

Born in Valladolid (Spain), he studies Art history, classical guitar and Musicology focusing his interests as a musicologist on the figure of Francisco Guerrero. Since 2005, he works as a critic for different media and in 2007 he is appointed director of the Audioclásica magazine. Also, during 2009 he works as presenter and director of various radio programs on Spanish National Radio. From 2013 he leads his interests towards composition training under Alberto Posadas, Beat Furrer, Pierluigi Billone, Rebecca Saunder or Chaya Czernowin, among others. As a composer, his music has been performed by musicians such as Christophe Desjardins, Lorelei Dowling, Christian Dierstein, William Blank and Franck Ollu. In 2016 he gets a grant from the Madrid government and a year later he wins the 1st prize in the International Composition Competition of the Festival of Sacred Music in Fribourg. Also, in 2021 he gets the 3rd prize in the Basel Composition Competition.

His works have been performed in several festivals and venues in Europe & North America. He has been commissioned by Auditori de Barcelona, OBC Orchestra, Fundació Tàpies, ME_MMIX Festival, CrossingLines, Bcn216 ensemble, Festival d’Òpera de Butxaca, Festival Mixtur/UMS ´n JIP, Duo Links, Laps ensemble, Rémi Durupt, Miguel-Ángel Lorente, Víctor de la Rosa, Miquel Bernat, etc. He has also collaborated, among others, with Noelia Rodiles, the RTVE Orchestra, Ensemble Multilatérale, Taller Sonoro, Funktion, Lorraine Orchestra, Balearic Orchestra, Alberto Menchén, Miquel Bernat, Erica Wise, Jan Gerdes or Philippe Spiesser. He's the Invited composer in Auditori of Barcelona at the season 2017/2018.

He won the XXXVIII Reina Sofía Prize for Musical Composition 2021. He has also received distinctions from the Frederic Mompou Composition Prize, Dolors Calvet i Prat Composition Prize, the Colegio de España and Instituto de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música (INAEM) award, the aid for young creators of Fundació Phonos of Universitat Pompeu i Fabra and the Berliner Opernpreis. He has also received the support by the Government of Catalonia & the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

A pianist with a classical training, he started his studies of composition in Barcelona with Enric Palomar and Agustin Charles. Afterwards, he moved to Paris at the Ecole Normale de Musique with Yoshihisa Taïra (2001-2004) and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP) where he got the Master degree of Composition with Frédéric Durieux and Orchestration with Denis Cohen (2007-2012). He also attended the anual Cursus 1 in musical computing at IRCAM.

Some of his music has been recorded by Neu Records: 'Pendular motion' (2021) 

>>“I want to reach the people, make them feel. Otherwise, one can stay at home.” Oriol Cruixent belongs to that composers-generation, for which it is no more award, not to be understood.<< (TZ München)

>>Long prolonged applause and Bravos for the present composer.<< (Berliner Morgenpost)

>>A fulminante “premiere” by the Bavarian Radio.<< (Sueddeutsche Zeitung)

First Prize winner of the prestigious Dimitri Mitropolous International Competition for Composers (Athens, 2007) and Composer in Residence of the Percussion Ensemble "Opercussion" at the Bayerische Staatsoper (2013-2015), the composer and pianist Oriol Cruixent (Barcelona, 1976) has an extensive catalog of more than 85 opuses that include compositions for solo, chamber, choir, orchestra and opera. His works have been commissioned, performed and broadcast internationally (Philharmonie Berlin, Die Glocke Bremen, Siemens Auditorium München, Musiksaal in der Kongresshalle Nürnberg, Stadthalle Wuppertal, Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, Auditori Nacional de Barcelona, Megaro Mousikis Athens, CCM Cincinnati, NCPA-Festival Beijing, Theatre of the City of Shanghai, Evian Music Festival, Auditorio de la USACH Santiago de Chile, Academy of Music of Zagreb, Conservatory Bucarest, Bayern4-Klassik, NDR, Catalunya Ràdio, Radio Nacional de España, ERT Greece),by internationally renowned orchestras (Münchener Rundfunkorchester, Bremer Philharmoniker, Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal, Staatskapelle Schwerin, Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, Detmolder Kammerorchester, Nürnberger Symphoniker, Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Orchestra of Colours Athens, Orquesta de la USACH-Santiago de Chile, OBC-Barcelona). Recordings of his works have been released by the Labels FCEC, Fuga Libera Outhere, EMI, Audite, Naxos/BR-Klassik and Alpha Classics. His works are edited and distributed by Universal Edition.

Oriol Cruixent studied piano (Prof. Carme Vilà) and music theory in Barcelona, graduating “summa cum laude” in 1999. He also studied the violin and voice. He participated in piano masterclasses with Ramon Coll and Paul Badura-Skoda and in conducting (choir and orchestra) with Manel Cabero and Uwe Mund. In addition, he was a member of the chamber choir “Capella de Sta. Maria del Pi”, a vocal ensemble specialized in ancient vocal music.In 2004, he obtained a diploma in Composition and in 2006 he completed the “Meisterklasse” with Prof. Dr. Dieter Acker at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich, being supported by the German fund Alexander von Humboldt DAAD. In addition, he participated in conducting classes for orchestra with Prof. Ulrich Nicolai, being his assistant in 2004-2005.

In addition to his intense work as a composer, Oriol Cruixent has worked as musical assistant to Markus Poschner, Oswald Sallaberger, Ulf Schirmer, Alexander Liebreich and Christoph Hammer at the Prinzregententheater in Munich (2005-2008); as an accompaniment instructor at the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding (during his time there, his Continuo and Recitative play -Cembalo, Positive, Hammerklavier- brought him to Rouen and Versailles -Opéra Royal- as a Chef de Chant and continuo player); as conductor in studio recordings (Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg); as recording producer (O-Celli, Fuga Libera Outhere) and as a pianist, performing and recording with renowned international musicians (Kolja Blacher, Jens-Peter Maintz, Claudio Estay), as well as with the symphonic Latin Jazz ensemble "Banda do Patio", performing on tour with symphonic orchestra (2010-2014).

Oriol Cruixent has won several international competitions, including:

1st Prize of the International Competition for Composing FCEC in Barcelona (1996),

2nd Prize of the Franz Josef Reinl-Stiftung competition for composing in Vienna (2001),

1st Prize of the Dimitri Mitropoulos International Competition for Composing in Athens (2007),

Finalist of the Johann Joseph Fux Opera competition for composing 2009 in Graz

Ramon Humet is an award-winning composer born in 1968 who has received the Olivier Messiaen International Composition Prize, the XXIV Queen Sofia International Composition Prize, and the 2025 Basel Composition Competition 3rd prize.

Ramon Humet studied composition with Josep Soler, piano with Harriet Serr and Miquel Farré, and improvisation with Gerry Weil. In 2000, he met the British composer Jonathan Harvey, an encounter that deeply marked his creative path. He has studied shakuhachi with Kakizakai Kaoru sensei and Horacio Curti. He plays the shakuhachi in concert, with special attention to the repertoire of Koten Honkyoku and contemporary music for shakuhachi.

In 2007 he was awarded the Olivier Messiaen International Composition Prize, which brought the commission —on the initiative of conductor Kent Nagano— of the orchestral composition Scenes of Wind for the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, premiered in 2008 and conducted by Jacques Lacombe. His orchestral music has also received awards such as the XXIV Queen Sofia International Composition Prize and the XVI International Composition Prize Ciutat de Tarragona. In 2014 he was the guest composer at Palau de la Música Catalana, and in the 2019-2020 season he was the guest composer at Auditori of Barcelona.

Ramon Humet’s music exudes an intense love of nature, embodied in some of his symphonic works. This can be seen in works such as Música del no ésser (Music of Non-being), premiered by the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pablo Gonzalez, El temps i la campana (Time and the Bell), premiered by Spanish National Orchestra conducted by Guillermo García Calvo, or Escenes d’ocells (Scenes of Birds), an orchestral work that has been the subject of multiple performances conducted by Jean François Rivest, Adrian Leaper, Roberto Minczuk, Víctor Pablo Pérez, Edmon Colomer and Rubén Gimeno with several orchestras. 

Piano music is a key facet in the catalogue of Humet's works, and Volume III in the series Escenes del bosc (Forest Scenes) stands out: the piece was commissioned by the Association pour la Création et la Diffusion Artistique and was premiered at the Cité de la Musique in 2007 as a mandatory piece in the prestigious Concours Olivier Messiaen for piano. Additionally, volume V was premiered at Tokyo Opera Recital Hall in 2014 by Satoko Inoue.

In 2017 he writes Music for Ekstasis, a lost Martha Graham's solo reimagined by Virginie Mécène and premiered by the Martha Graham Dance Company at the Joyce Theater, New York. This work has been performed around the world: Opéra de Paris, Teatro Real de Madrid, National Centre for the Performing Arts of Beijing, Luxembourg, Germany, Canada, etc... Music for Ekstasis is the soundtrack of the videoclip Breathing by the legendary Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. In 2019 he premieres Homenaje a Martha Graham, with choreography by Virginie Mécène, PeiJu Chien-Pott as soloist, Sarah Maria Sun, Alberto Rosado, Kakizakai Kaoru and Neopercusión. This work has been recorded with 3D system in a double CD produced by Neu Records.

Some of his most relevant works for chamber music have been released on a specially designed compact disc, Niwa, recorded by London Sinfonietta and conducted by Nicholas Collon. This CD, produced by Neu Records label, has been recorded with high definition sound and 5.1 Surround system, and has been reviewed by Gramophone Magazine as a 'fascinating project'. Often inspired by Japanese traditional music for shakuhachi, 'Desert', for shakuhachi and orchestra, has been premiered by Horacio Curti and the Spanish National Orchestra conducted by Paolo Bressan.

Ramon Humet has taught composition at the Liceu Conservatory since 2009. Among his former students stand out as successful composers: Joan Magrané, Miquel Oliu, Carles de Castellarnau, Maria Camahort, ... He has a wide repertoire of vocal, instrumental, electroacoustic and stage music, with particular attention paid to orchestral production.

In 2021, a portrait CD has been released by Ondine with the choral work Llum, with the Latvian Radio Choir conducted by Sigvards Klava.

Ricardo Bedoya is a Spanish contemporary classical composer and pianist. He is graduated at the Superior Conservatory of Music in Seville and has a Master's Degree in Piano Musical Interpretation, and other in Musical Composition.

He has received advanced piano courses with professors Eugen Indjic, Joseph Banowetz, Christopher Elton, Joaquín Achúcarro, Tibor Szász, Andrzej Dutkiewicz and Luca Chiantore among others, and has attended courses in composition with Luis de Pablo, José María Sánchez-Verdú, Gabriel Erkoreka, César Camarero y Alberto Posadas.

His music has been premiered in several spanish cities and finalist in the 1st Musical Composition Contest for Andalusian Youth organized by the Andalusian Musical Documentation Center.

At present he teaches at the "Manuel Castillo" Superior Conservatory of Music in Seville.

Sira Hernández, born in Barcelona, made her debut at the age of 16 in the auditorium of the G. Verdi Conservatory in Turin (Italy). He completed his musical studies at the same conservatory, under the direction of the famous pianist Remo Remoli, disciple of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, and Felice Quaranta, at the time director of the conservatory, as well as being a renowned composer and pianist . After finishing his studies in Turin, he returned to Barcelona where he perfected his piano studies at the Marshall Academy, receiving lessons from the pianist Alicia de Larrocha. Between 1993-1994 he studied counterpoint and fugue and composition with Manuel Oltra, thus expanding the studies begun with Felice Quaranta in Turin and then began his improvisation studies with the prestigious Emilio Molina, professor at the Superior School of Music of Catalonia (ESMUC) and at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía.She has participated, as an performer and composer, in several concerts.