José María Sánchez-Verdú

José M. Sánchez-Verdú studied Composition, Orchestra Conducting and Musicology. He has also a degree in Law (Universidad Complutense Madrid), and a Ph.D. (Universidad Autónoma Madrid).

His music has been performed by ensembles and orchestras such as Ensemble Modern, MusikFabrik, Ensemble Recherche, Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Finnish Radio Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, and many others with conductors as Z. Mehta, R. Frühbeck de Burgos, P. Rundel, L. Zagrosek, S. Cambreling, etc. His works have been featured in festivals such as Ultraschall Berlin, MaerzMusik, Münchener Biennale, Wien Modern, Salzburg-Biennale, Musica Nova Helsinki, Ars Musica Bruxelles, Operadhoy Madrid, la Biennale di Venezia, Lincoln Center New York, etc. He was Composer in residence in different festivals and orchestras in Germany, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Peru etc. In the last years he was Composer in residence with the Dresdner Philharmonie, and just now at the Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada. He received international awards such as the Kompositionspreis der Junge Deutsche Philharmonie (Frankfurt 1999), Ernst-von-Siemens-Musikstiftung (Munich 2000), Prize of the Bergische Biennale (Wuppertal 2001), Premio Nacional de Música (Madrid 2003), Award for Artistic Excellence Villa Concordia (Bamberg 2014), Ibn Arabi Prize (2015) etc.

His music involves new dramaturgies, light, architecture and installation perspectives and has a special interest on the Arabic and Jewish cultures (poetry, mysticism, architecture, music and calligraphy) and on historical perspectives or on old instruments (gotic and baroques). His music theater pieces have been performed at the Staatsoper Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Luzerner Theater, Münchener Biennale, Teatro Real Madrid, Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele, Mainz Opera House, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires etc.

Sánchez-Verdú is Honorar Professor for composition at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf and is also Professor for composition at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música in Madrid. Since 2022 he is part of the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. His works has been recorded in many different monographics by labels such as Kairos, Col-legno, Verso, Columna Musica, Harmonia Mundi, etc. and are published by Breitkopf & Härtel.

Website: https://sanchez-verdu.com