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Biography<\/h1>

Miguel Franco, composer<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Miguel Franco was born in Murcia in 1962 and since he began his musical studies in the early 80s, his training as a double bass player and his career as a composer have run in parallel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He began his music career at the conservatory in his hometown with teachers Isabel Torregrosa and Gin\u00e9s Garc\u00eda Abell\u00e1n while he was part of the newly created Youth Orchestra of the Region of Murcia and the National Youth Orchestra of Spain as a double bass player. During the years 85 and 86, he lived in Barcelona where he alternated his work in the Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceo with higher studies at the Municipal Conservatory of Music with the double bass player Ferr\u00e1n Sala<\/strong> and the composers Antoni Besses and Joan Guinjoan<\/strong>. Later, he won a scholarship from the British Council, which allowed him to work in the Hall\u00e8 Orchestra of Manchester and enroll in the Royal Northern College of Music to complete his double bass studies with Duncan McTier<\/strong> and attend various composition seminars with figures like Alexander Goher<\/strong> and Michael Tippett. After his graduation in 1988, he returned to Spain where he currently combines his work as a composer, deserving of the composition awards \u201cJoventuts Musicals de Barcelona (1985)\u201d and \u201cCiutat de Ll\u00edria (1998)\u201d, with that of a solo double bass player of the RTVE Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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He has composed both symphonic and chamber music as well as theater (\u201cLa Celada Fuente\u201d, by Mu\u00f1oz Clares and \u201cPedro de Urdemalas\u201d, by Miguel de Cervantes) and cinema (\u201cEl N\u00famero Marcado\u201d, \u201cEl Infierno Prometido\u201d, \u201cAmores que matan,\u201d \u00abMagos como t\u00fa\u00bb and \u201cZapping\u201d, by Chumilla Carbajosa<\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has also written and published a good number of pieces for educational purposes based on Spanish folklore. His presence as a composer stands out in various music festivals such as the \u2018V and XXIII International Festival of Youth Orchestras\u2019 of Murcia; the \u2018Downing College Music Society\u2019 of Cambridge; \u2018VII Encuentros de Percusi\u00f3n de Xixona\u2019, in Alicante; the \u2018Kamer Muziekcentrum De Suite\u2019 of Amsterdam; the \u2018Mayo Musical\u2019 of Murcia in 1994, the 3rd Festival of Contemporary Music of Barcelona; the \u2018Festival Nova M\u00fasica\u2019 of the Bulgarian Society of Contemporary Music the III National Percussion Convention, held in 1997 at the C\u00edrculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, The 47th Week of Religious Music of Cuenca and the II Cycle of Contemporary Spanish Music in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His works have been programmed in various musical institutions, such as the Center for the Dissemination of Contemporary Music in Madrid, numerous editions of the Chamber Music Cycle of the RTVE Orchestra and Choir, the Pablo Sarasate Orchestra of Pamplona, the Cordoba Orchestra, the Region Orchestra of Murcia, the Primitiva Band of Ll\u00edria, the Malaga Symphony Orchestra, the Hermitage Chamber Orchestra of St. Petersburg, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Tomsk in Siberia, the Classical Orchestra City of Murcia, The Symphony Orchestra of the Province of Bari in Italy, the SWR Symphony Orchestra of Baden-Baden and Freiburg, the Choir and the RTVE Symphony Orchestra and the Madrid Symphonic Band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre los artistas que han interpretado sus obras se encuentran destacadas figuras como los pianistas Joaqu\u00edn Soriano, Istv\u00e1n Sz\u00e9kely, Roderigo Robles de Medina y Mariana Gurkova; los violonchelistas Stanimir Todorov, \u00c1ngel Garc\u00eda Jermann, Amparo Lacruz y Suzana Stefanovic; los violinistas Miguel Borrego, V\u00edctor Arriola, Rub\u00e9n Reina, Miguel P\u00e9rez Espejo, Michael Pearson, Marguerita Marseglia y David Mata; los violas Luis Artigues, Sergio Sola, Eva Mart\u00edn. Octavio de Juan Ayala y Scott Rawls; los contrabajistas Chris West, Manel Ortega y Roberto Terr\u00f3n; los percusionistas Rafael M\u00e1s, I\u00f1aki Mart\u00edn, Enric Llopis y Juanjo Guillem; los obo\u00edstas Salvador Barber\u00e1 y Carlos Alonso; el flautista Vicente Cintero; el clarinetista Miguel Civera; los trompetista Benjam\u00edn Moreno y Germ\u00e1n Asensi; los cantantes Rodrigo Esteves, Celia Alcedo, Milagros Poblador, Sarah Fulgoni, Carmelo Cord\u00f3n, Marina Pardo y Carmen \u00c1vila; y los directores Enrique Garc\u00eda Asensio, Lorenzo Ramos, Mariano Alfonso, Eduardo Marturet, Manuel Hern\u00e1ndez Silva, James Judd, Adrian Leaper, C\u00e9sar \u00c1lvarez, \u00d3liver D\u00edaz, Jos\u00e9 Miguel Rodilla y Alexis Soriano. Gran amante de la literatura, en su obra abundan los textos de grandes escritores como Miguel de Cervantes, Gonzalo de Berceo, Fray Lu\u00eds de Le\u00f3n, Francisco de Quevedo, Sor Juana In\u00e9s de la Cruz, Jorge Manrique, Juan de Tassis, Garcilaso de la Vega, el Duque de Rivas, Samuel Beckett, etc. Tambi\u00e9n cabe resaltar su trabajo en com\u00fan con importantes personalidades de las artes pl\u00e1sticas, como los pintores Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda P\u00e1rraga y Jos\u00e9 Lucas, el cineasta Chumilla Carbajosa y los poetas Jos\u00e9 Luis Mata, Gracia Iglesias, Jos\u00e9 Francisco Burgos y Gloria Fuertes.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Do you like my work?<\/h2><\/div>

If you liked my work and want to buy any of my pieces, contact me through the contact form. Likewise, you can contact me for anything else.<\/p>

Go to contact<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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