Voro Garcia

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Voro García

Biography

Voro García i Fernández (b. Sueca, Spain) is a Spanish music educator, composer and conductor.

Dr. García 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 Mauricio Sotelo. He received his doctor of music degree 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), best original music (short films) 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 or FestClásica.

García was the founder and creator of the Ensemble Espai Sonor in 2003. 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 and SBALZ Festival (2018). He was the artistic director of the Mostra Sonora in Sueca (2005-2017).

He is currently [2022] a composition teacher at the Higher Conservatory of Music of Valencia and artistic director of the Ensems Festival.


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