José Manuel LÓPEZ LÓPEZ
guest composer
The music of José Manuel López López is characterized by an immediate seduction combined with an interiority, both coming from a personal language of great modernity that is constantly being renewed.
After his training with great musicians - he made his debut in Madrid where he studied piano, composition and orchestral conducting, and where he was a student of García Abril and Luis de Pablo, then studied abroad, Luigi Nono, Franco Donatoni, and Roger Cochini at the GMEB Experimental Music Group in Bourges before taking courses in analysis and composition with Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Boulez in Avignon - he developed a personal language integrating electronics and musical computing thanks to the courses he took with Horaci Vaggione at the University of Paris 8, and with Tristán Murail at the IRCAM. He holds a DEA "Music and musicology of the 20th century" at the EHESS School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Paris.
His compositions range from solo works to chamber music or mixed music, to large ensembles, and he receives commissions from major festivals such as Nuove Sincronie (Milan), Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), Ensems (Valencia), Radio France, MUSICA Strasbourg, CIRM Nice, International Festival of Music of the Canary Islands, Art-Zoyd, as well as from the Spanish and French Ministries of Culture, Arditti Quartet, Tokyo Sinfonietta, Siemens-Trio Arbós Foundation, BBVA Foundation... His music is performed by major performers and ensembles such as: the National Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Spanish Radio and Television, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Mexico City, the Deutsches Symphonie Orchestre Berlin, the Bamberg Orchestra, the National Orchestra of France, Taller Sonor, Grup Instrumental de València, Espai Sonor, Ensemble Sonor, Plural Ensemble, Ensemble l'Itinéraire, Solistes XXI, Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Ensemble 2e2m, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Percussionists of Strasbourg, Miquel Bernat, Anne Mercier, Rachid Safir, Alberto Rosado, Jonathan Nott, Daniel Kawka, Esteban Algora, ...
He also collaborates with artists from other disciplines such as the painter José Manuel Broto, the poet Dionisio Cañas or the video artists Pascal Auger, Francis Naranjo and Robin Meier.
In 1996 José Manuel López López was awarded a scholarship by the Association Française d'Action Artistique (AFFA) to carry out a composition residency at the Kujoyama Villa in Kyoto (Japan), an experience that would definitively transform his conception of sound and musical time, and in 1997 he was a scholarship holder at the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. In 2000, the Spanish State awarded him the National Music Prize. In 2004 he was a guest professor at the Manuel de Falla Chair in Cadiz, and between (2005-2008) - (2011-2012) he worked as a professor of composition at the Superior Conservatory of Music in Zaragoza. Between 2008 and 2011 he was Artistic Director of the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid.
In 2012 he received the Francis and Mica Salabert Foundation award from SACEM for his work Metro Vox Els testimonis Iannis Xenakis. In 2013 he received the René Dumesnil Prize awarded by the French Academy of Fine Arts.
He is currently an associate professor and director of the Composition Workshop at the University of Paris 8 and a professor of composition at the Edgard Varèse Conservatory (CRD de Gennevilliers-France).
He has been composer and artist in residence in Burgundy on several occasions (2000/2003), guest professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and resident artist of the American Foundation Civitella Ranieri in Umbria (Italy) in 2011. The same year he is a guest professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
He is currently professor of composition at the Conservatoire Edgard Varèse (CRD de Gennevilliers). Sacem has awarded him the Francis and Mica Salabert Prize 2012 for his work Metro Vox The Witnesses Iannis Xenakis; and the Académie Française de Beaux Arts the René Daumesnil Prize 2013.
His works are published by Durand-Salabert-Eschig (Universal Music Publishing Group), Transatlantiques and Henry Lemoine in Paris, Piles (Spain) and by the composer himself.