JOSE SUÑER ORIOLA

José Suñer-Oriola studied harmony, analysis and counterpoint in the Valencia Superior Conservatory of Music before going on to study composition and conducting with Maestro Julio Ribelles.

He has taken part in the Music Festivals of Barcelona, Luxembourg, Maastricht, Innsbruck, Paris, Edinburgh, London, Tokyo, Shanghai and Cincinnati.

His compositions are published by Catalana d'Edicions Musicals (Barcelona), Blas-Basen (Stockholm, Sweden), and by Rivera Editores (Valencia) and are performed in Europe, the United States, South American, Japan and Australia.

He has been awarded: the Frederick Fennell composition prize in the First Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra Composition Competition in 2006 in Japan; the prize of the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SACEM) in France; third prize Coups de Vents in Lille in 2008; and he was a finalist in the Second Frank Ticheli Composition Contest in 2009 in New York.

In 2011 he was invited by the Middle Tennessee State University to give a master class about his works.

He has been a member, gaining the positions by public examination, of the San Sebastián Municipal Wind Band, the San Sebastián Conservatory, the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatro del Liceo in Barcelona. He currently teaches the Valencia Municipal Band and is the Director of the Societat Musical "Eslava" of Albuixech.

He is a member of the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE).

www.josesuner.com.