Born in Alcublas in 2004, Diego Gimeno began his trumpet studies with the Banda Primitiva de Llíria, where he was awarded the Pare Antoni Scholarship for outstanding academic achievement. He subsequently completed his Professional Diplomas in Trumpet and Piano at the Llíria Professional Conservatoire of Music, graduating with the End-of-Studies Award in Fundamentals of Composition.

He continued his training at the Valencia Higher Conservatoire of Music, where he studied Orchestral, Choral and Wind Band Conducting, as well as Composition. Throughout his education, he has received instruction from renowned musicians and composers including Voro García, Juan Pablo Hellín, Nadia Stoyanova, Andrés Valero-Castells, José Miguel Fayos, Luis Serrano and Manuel Galduf.

As a conductor, he has served as guest conductor of the Banda Filarmónica Ilhense and the Banda Juvenil Primitiva de Llíria. He has also conducted the wind band and choir of the Valencia Higher Conservatoire of Music, as well as the orchestra of the Llíria Professional Conservatoire of Music.

As a performer, he has participated in numerous national and international competitions, among his most notable achievements being First Prize and Honourable Mention at the Altea Band Competition (2021), First Prize and Honourable Mention in the Special Division of the Valencia International Wind Band Competition (CIBM Valencia) (2022), First Prize and Honourable Mention at the CaixaBank Orchestra Competition (2023), and First Prize at the Azuaga Wind Band Competition (2024). In 2025, he once again achieved First Prize and Honourable Mention in the Special Division of the Valencia International Wind Band Competition (CIBM Valencia) with the Banda Primitiva de Llíria.

As a composer, he was awarded First Prize in the AETYB Composition Competition in 2023, in the category Higher Ensemble – Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble Winston Morris. In 2024, he was awarded Second Prize in the 2nd International “Emili Giménez Bou” Composition Competition, organised by the Ateneo Musical de Cullera, in the Choral category. His works have been premiered and performed in Spain, Croatia and Portugal.

Every sound that is produced is destined, inevitably, to fade away. Or perhaps not?

Based on a musical idea presented in the introduction, the work unfolds over a continuous ten-minute span, without division into movements. The material is transformed in all its parameters and explored through the wide range of timbral possibilities offered by the symphonic wind band.

Its successive appearances continually fade away, yet their disappearance is never entirely definitive. Each sonic object gives way to a new manifestation of itself; what vanishes in one plane re-emerges and is projected in another. Through this process of accumulation and subtraction, the elements introduced at the outset gradually acquire greater scope and significance, ultimately forming a single continuous whole.

In this way, Fade proposes a process of transformation and dissolution in which the initial materials expand and interact throughout the musical discourse.