"Suddenly, animated by the suggestive sounds of Sánchez-Verdú which often persist in allusions and shadow effects, a vastness and profound penetration into our processes of intellectual preservation arise. The theater was broken up; our gaze was not guided towards the stage, but to the book in front of us. It was a focus that proved in what dimensions image, action and music can be conceived."
Neue Musik Zeitung

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Homepage of José M. Sánchez-Verdú

Events

09 Jan 2009	Sánchez-Verdú, José M.: La rosa y el ruisenor Orquesta Joven de Andalucia, cond. Michael Thomas Malaga (Spain)
26 Jan 2009	Sánchez-Verdú, José M.: Arquitecturas del eco Neopercusión Madrid, Centro Galileo (Spain)
07 Feb 2009	Sánchez-Verdú, José M.: Engel-Studien Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Staging: Matthias Rebstock Stuttgart, Theaterhaus, Festival ECLAT, 7 pm (Germany) World première
08 Feb 2009	Sánchez-Verdú, José M.: Engel-Studien Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Staging: Matthias Rebstock Stuttgart, Theaterhaus, Festival ECLAT, 5 pm (Germany)
24 Feb 2009	Sánchez-Verdú, José M.: Arquitecturas de la sombra Christian Dierstein (perc) Freiburg, Morat-Institut (Germany)
14 Mar 2009	Sánchez-Verdú, José M.: Qasid 3 Ensemble Modern Athens, Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie (Greece)
24 Mar 2009	Sánchez-Verdú, José M.: Lux ex tenebris (Goya-Zyklus) Jürgen Ruck (guit), Ensemble Modern Sevilla, Auditorio de la Fundacion Cajasol (Spain) World première
25 Mar 2009	Sánchez-Verdú, José M.: Lux ex tenebris (Goya-Zyklus) Jürgen Ruck (guit), Ensemble Modern Madrid, Auditorio Nacional (Spain)
01 Apr 2009	Sánchez-Verdú, José M.: Engel-Studien Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Staging: Matthias Rebstock Barcelona, Festival Nous Sons (Spain)
15 Apr 2009	Sánchez-Verdú, José M.: El viaje a Simorgh concertante performance (only parts), Orquesta Joven de Andalucia, cond. Arturo Tamayo Sevilla, Teatro de la Maestranza (Spain)
12 Jun 2009	Sánchez-Verdú, José M.: Machaut-Architekturen I-V Notabu.Ensemble Neue Musik, cond. Mark-Andreas Schlingensiepen Düsseldorf, Tonhalle (Germany)

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1968	born in Algeciras (Spain) on 7 March
1986–94	studies at the Music Conservatory Madrid. Diplom in composition, conducting and musicology
1991	obtains law degree (Universidad Complutense, Madrid)
1991-94	Lecturer in counterpoint and fugue at the Madrid Music Conservatory
1992	studies composition with Franco Donatoni at the Accademia Chigiana, Siena
1994	Cristóbal Halfftercomposition award
1996, 1997	Three composition awards of the Spanish Author’s Society SGAE
1996–99	Postgraduate studies in composition with Hans Zender at the Music Conservatory in Frankfurt
1997	Invitation to the forum for young composers, performers and musicologists of the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt Scholarship from the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts in Rome Composition award Ciutat d’Alcoy
1998	First composition award of the Colegio de España, Paris
1999	Moves to Berlin First composition award of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie Finalist of the Irino Composition Prize Tokyo
2000	Advancement prize for composition of the Siemens Foundation, Munich
since 2001	Composition teacher at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Düsseldorf
2003	National Music Award of the Spanish Ministry of Culture
2005	Composer-in-residence at the Carinthian Summer Festival in Ossiach
2007	Antara Prize for Composition (Festivalfor Contemporary Music in Lima, Peru)
2008	Professor for composition at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón in Zaragoza

Internationally active as conductor of orchestras and ensembles for contemporary music. Publications, lectures and composition courses. Commissions and performances at international festivals and concert halls. Portrait CDs (Columna Musica 2005, Harmonia Mundi 2006, Kairos 2008). Lives in Berlin and Madrid. 

Writings from Sánchez-Verdú

Arquitecturas del eco (Reflexiones fragmentarias sobre musica y tradicion), in: Sibila. Revista de arte, musica y literatura 18 (April 2005), S. 39-42

„Lo peor que puede hacer un compositor es quedarse encerrado“. Der Komponist im Gespräch mit Juan Antonio Llorente, in: Doce Notas, Heft 56 (April/Mai 2007), S. 8-11


Writings on Sánchez-Verdú

Gan Quesada, German: De altitudine temporis, in: Sibila. Revista de arte, musica y literatura 18 (April 2005), S. 50f.
Gan Quesada, Germán: José María Sánchez-Verdú. Músicas del límite, Begleitheft zum 22. Festival de Música de Canarias, Gobierno de Canarias 2006
Guibert, Alvaro: El genio de la musica, in: Sibila. Revista de arte, musica y literatura 18 (April 2005), S. 47
Halffter, Cristobal: La musica de Jose Maria Sanchez-Verdu, in: Sibila. Revista de arte, musica y literatura 18 (April 2005), S. 46

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