José Luis Turina

about

José Luis Turina (born 1952, Madrid) is a Spanish composer, grandson of Joaquín Turina. He studied composition under Antón García Abril, Román Alís, Rodolfo Halffter and Carmelo Bernaola at the conservatories of Barcelona and Madrid, and then, with a grant from the Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs for studying at the Spanish Fine Arts Academy in Rome, he attended the classes in composition given by Franco Donatoni at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia. In 1981, his work Meeting Point won the First Prize in the International Composition Contest organised by the Orchestra of the Valencia Conservatory to mark their first centenary. In 1986 he won the First Prize of the Musical Composition Contest “Queen Sofía”, from the Ferrer Salat Foundation, with his piece Ocnos (orchestral music on poems by Luis Cernuda). He was awarded Spain's Premio Nacional de Música for composition in 1996. Teacher of Harmony in the Conservatories of Cuenca and Madrid since 1981, in 1983 he was designated technical advisor of the Ministry for Education and Science, for the reformation of musical teaching in the realm of the new education law of 1990. In February 2001 he was appointed Artistic Director of the National Youth Orchestra of Spain, and in 2004 he became the President of the Spanish Association of Youth Orchestras. In September 2000 the world premiere of his opera D. Q. (Don Quijote in Barcelona), on a text by Justo Navarro and in a production by La Fura dels Baus, took place in the Gran Te

top songs

albums

José Luis Turina: Exequias, in Memoriam Fernando Zóbel & Concierto para Violin y Orquesta

Jose Luis Turina: Musica de cámara

▥

José Luis Turina. Tríos Con Piano

▥

Various Composers: Música Española para Piano a Cuatro Manos (Vol. 1)

▥

José Luis Turina. La forma de la huella

José Luis Turina: Retrato

Various Composers: Nueve Siglos de Canción Española - Nine Centuries of Spanish Art Song (Vol. 4)

▥

De Pablo, Marco, Turina, Halffter [Spanish Modern Music Vol.1]

▥

Concierto para piano y orquesta

▥

Exequias, In Memoriam Fernando Zóbel

▥

Piano quartet - F. Panisello, Plural Ensemble

▥

Marco - Garrido - Turina - Orchestral Works

similar artists