Voro Garcia

Voro Garcia, born in Sueca (Spain). Studied trombone, piano, singing, chorus and orchestra conducting musicology and composition, at the Conservatory of music of Valencia, with R. Ramos and M. Galduf, among others. He attended master classes of composition with José Luis Castillo, Mauricio Sotelo or José Manuel López López among others. Doctor cum laude of Music from the Polytechnic University of Valencia.

 

Winner of prizes of composition he was First Prize of the Instituto Nacional de la Juventud  (2004), Oïda (2001), Prize Luis Morondo (2007), Matilde Salvador (2007), Méliés d'argent (2012/2013), better original music (short films) XIV Mostra de Cinema Jove de Elche (2011) and K-Lidoscopi (2012), finalist of the Bell’Arte Europa (2005), Pablo Sorozábal (2001) and ALEA III International Composition Prize (2007).

 

He received commissions from several official and private institutions as well as from numerous individual performers such as: INAEM (Spanish Ministry of Culture), JONDE (Young National Orchestra of Spain), CDMC, IVM (Valencian Music Institute), National Auditorium, Quatuor Tana, Spanish Brass, Ensemble Ascolta, Festival Ensems, Festival Mixtur, Ascolta Ensemble, French Ministry of Culture or FestClásica.

 

His works have been selected or commissioned by different competitions, festivals or sound platforms from around the world, his performers being: Solists Intercontemporain Ensemble, Proyecto Guerrero, Ensemble Cepromusic, Arditti Quartet, Quatuor Tana, Mivos Quartet, Court-circuit, Proxima Centauri, E-MEX Ensemble, Ascolta Ensemble, Ensemble Chromoson, Grup Instrumental, Ensemble Residencias, Espai Sonor, Zahir Ensemble, NeoArs Ensemble, NEXEnsemble, Plural Ensemble, Ensemble Kuraia, Grupo Enigma, Sonido Extremo, Spanish Brass, Sigma Project, Lumina Ensemble, Fukio Ensemble, Symphonic orchestra of Castilla and León, Orchestra of Diputación de Alicante (ADDA), Orchestra of Valencia, JONDE (Young National Orchestra of Spain), JOGV (young orchestra of Generalitat Valenciana) , Ensemble del Carnegie Mellon,Trío Arbós, B3 Brouwer Trío, TDM Trío de Magia, Feedback Trio, Alter Face, Amores grup de percussió, Synergein Project, Neopercusión, Projecte SoXXI, Municipal Winds orchestras of A Coruña, Barcelona, Bilbao, Castelló, Palma de Mallorca, Valencia or Kolbotn Konsertorkester, Brenno Ambrosini, Ananda Sukarlan, Christian Dierstein, Pedro Carneiro, Marcus Weiss, Marie Bernadette, Ricardo Descalzo, Alfonso Gómez, Sisco Aparici, Juanjo Llopico, Ricard Capellino, Andrés Gomis, José Antonio López, Carlos Gil, Maria Rubio, Josep Puchades, Xelo Giner…

 

Founder and creator of the Ensemble Espai Sonor in 2003. In his role as director has made the absolute premiere and/or in Spain of many works.

 

He has been composer-in-residence of the Group Instrumental de Valencia, in 2001-02, JONDE (Young National Orchestra of Spain), in 2005-06 and MNCARS (Auditorio 400 at the Reina Sofia National Art Centre Museum) in 2009, JOGV (young orchestra of Generalitat Valenciana) in 2009/10, Somelgrup in 2013, Festival de Godella in 2016, SBALZ Festival in 2018 and Ágora in 2019. Artistic director of the Mostra Sonora in Sueca (2005-2017). He is currently a composition teacher at the Higher Conservatory of Music of Valencia and artistic director of the Ensems Festival.