The groups participating in the Honor Section of the International Wind Band Contest «City of Valencia» 2025 will have to perform as a compulsory piece the score “València Verda” by the composer Andrés Valero.
BIOGRAPHY
He studied at the Conservatories of Valencia and Murcia, graduating in eight specialties, with four Honorable Mentions and an Extraordinary End of Degree Award in Composition. He has attended numerous advanced and postgraduate courses, and has obtained the Diploma of Advanced Studies (D.E.A.) from the Catholic University of Valencia.
Since 2004 he has been a professor of composition at the “Joaquín Rodrigo” Conservatory of Valencia.
He has received important awards and distinctions. His works have been performed in most of Europe, and in the USA, Canada, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Turkey, Australia, China, etc. He has received commissions from various institutions, as well as from important ensembles and soloists. His scores have been published in Spain, France, Switzerland, and the USA. He has an extensive discography made in Spain, Norway, France, Switzerland, Holland, Portugal, Poland, the USA and Japan.
He has been a board member of the Association of Valencian Symphonic Composers, and has been composer-in-residence at the Spanish Brass International Festival (Alzira, 2005), the Youth Orchestra of the Generalitat Valenciana (2005-06), the I Festival en Escalera (Abanilla, 2021), and the Brassurround Festival (Torrent, 2022). He was the first living composer to perform at the Palau de les Arts «Reina Sofía» in Valencia (2006). He is a full member of the M. I. Academy of Valencian Music and currently directs and presents the program «Pasen y escuchan» on Radio Clásica de RNE.
COMPULSORY PIECE:SYMPHONY nº8 W «VALÈNCIA VERDA»
Work commissioned by Valencia City Council to celebrate Valencia’s status as European Green Capital in 2024. The premiere is scheduled to take place on 20 July 2025 at the Palau de la Música in Valencia, to which this composition is dedicated.
A work in a single movement, but clearly structured in six sections, which place us in various emblematic locations in the city, such as the Albufera Natural Park, the Turia Garden, La Marina and La Huerta, while we can identify motifs from the pasodoble Valencia by maestro Padilla, a pasodoble whose centenary of composition is being celebrated in 2025, and from the composition Vexations by the French composer Erik Satie, whose centenary of death is also being celebrated in 2025.