However, the virtue in every piece was regrettably beclouded or sometimes even overwhelmed by the composer’s concern for customary (‘common sense’) concepts and/or the métier of contemporary art music. I could recognize in each of them a virtue or virtues (point(s) of interest) different from the ones found in the other pieces. I am here to judge and to be judged at the same time.Īmong the 107 works submitted a dozen attracted me. Whether or not my choice can be of any significance in our music culture today is left to the public’s judgment. All I can possibly do in such a situation seems to be nothing but to select the works that interest me as one of the composers living con-temporarily. In addition, we see in today’s world of art music that diverse styles based on different aesthetic standpoints coexist without sharing any common ground which might allow us to compare one style to another. Therefore, it is inevitable that the result of any composition contest turns out to be biased or subjective to some extent, no matter how the judges strive to be fair, and even more so in the case of a contest with a single judge. There is no unequivocal criterion for making value judgements of musical works. His music has also been broadcast on Swiss Radio Espace 2, and BBC Radio 3. Michael is increasingly becoming in demand abroad with performances and premieres of his music in prestigious international music festivals such as the Festival Archipel in Geneva, Switzerland, 2017 ISCM World Music Days' in Vancouver, Canada and most recently at the 2019 Gaudeamus Muziekweek. Ebbing Tides was released in May 2020 on the LSO Live Label as part of the third edition of the LSO Panufnik Legacies Series. Recent highlights include the premiere of Lambent Fires (commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society) and Ebbing Tides (which received critical acclaim when premiered with the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Fabien Gabel). His music has been performed by some of the UK's leading orchestras and ensembles including the Philharmonia and the London Symphony Orchestra. He is a composer of orchestral, large ensemble and chamber music. After finishing his master in 2020, nowadays he carries out his PhD studies at University of Granada about the music of Francisco Guerrero Marín under the direction of Pedro Ordóñez Eslava, while he teaches music theory, harmony, and analysis at the Conservatory of Music of Soria (Spain).īorn in London, UK in 1991. In October 2018 he won an Erasmus+ scholarship to study for one year at the Conservatorio di Musica “Giuseppe Verdi” di Milano with Gabriele Manca. On the same year he was admitted in the Hochschule für Musik und Theather “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Leipzig, to follow his studies of master’s degree in Composition with Fabien Lévy. The following year he joined the Conservatory of Music of Aragon (Spain), where he studied bachelor’s degree in Composition with Jose María Sánchez-Verdú (2013) and Juan José Eslava (2015), attaining his degree in 2017. In 2011 he won a scholarship for one semester at Kean University (NJ, USA), where he attended his first composition lessons with Joseph Turrin, achieving the degree back in Spain in 2012. He was trained in bachelor’s degree in Music Education at University of Jaén (2009). He started studying music at the age of 10.
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