"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
Photo © by Patricia Diez
Homepage of José M. Sánchez-Verdú
Events
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Sep
2010
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Sánchez-Verdú, José M.: "Ein Garten für Orpheus - Klang und Zeichen im Schaffen des spanischen Komponisten"
by Georg Beck in Atelier neuer Musik
Radio broadcast DLF, 10:05 pm (Germany)
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30
Oct
2010
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Sánchez-Verdú, José M.: Aura
Orquesta Filarmonica de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, cond. José M. Sánchez-Verdú, staging: Emilio Garcia
Buenos Aires, Teatro San Martin (Argentina)
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31
Oct
2010
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Sánchez-Verdú, José M.: Aura
Orquesta Filarmonica de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, cond. José M. Sánchez-Verdú, staging: Emilio Garcia
Buenos Aires, Teatro San Martin (Argentina)
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13
Jul
2011
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Sánchez-Verdú, José M.: Nosferatu. Eine Symphonie des Grauens
Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal, cond. Mark-Andreas Schlingensiepen
Wuppertal, Historische Stadthalle (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 by 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
Intertextuality – Interculturality: a dialogue of today, in: Babylon Europe. Boundless Languages. International Conference Proceedings (Venedig, 29. 11. 2008), hrsg. von ENPARTS (European Network of Performing Arts), Venedig: Marsilio 2009, S. 96-103
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
