Sergio Blardony (born 13 July 1965), is a Spanish composer.
He studied at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid and, privately, with the Argentine composer Roberto J. Vittorio. Later, during four years, he was a disciple of José Luis de Delás in the Music School of the University of Alcalá de Henares. He also attended classes in composition and analysis with composers such as Helmut Lachenmann, Luis de Pablo, Javier Darias, Carmelo Bernaola, Enrico Fubini, Heinz-Klaus Metzger and Rainer Riehn.
He has been awarded various prizes, such as the Spanish Authors Society (SGAE) Composition first prize, the International City of Tarragona Award for Musical Composition, or Joaquín Turina Prize. His works have been premiered and performed internationally in countries like the U.S., France, Germany, China, South Korea, Canada, Spain, Portugal by artists like Arturo Tamayo, José de Eusebio, Alexis Soriano, Nacho de Paz, Olari Elts, José Luis Temes, Andrés Salado, Ángel Gil Ordónez, Andrés Gomis, Jonathan Carney, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Patricia Rozario, Flavio Oliver, Carlos Bonell, Florian Popa, Francisco A. García, Sebastián Mariné, José María Mañero, Trío Arbós, SIGMA Project, TDM Trío De Magia, Cámara XXI, Vertixe Sonora Ensemble, Ensemble Télémaque, Ensemble Décadanse, Ensemble Pro-Arte, OCAZEnigma, Espai Sonor, LIM, Proyecto Guerrero, Sax-Ensemble, National Orchestra of Spain, Youth Orchestra of the Comunidad de Madrid (JORCAM), State Hermitage's St. Petersburg Camerata Orchestra, Orchestra of Cadaqués, Barcelona Orchestra/National Orchestra of Catalunya and others.
His work list included over 60 works in all genres: solo instrumental, chamber music, orchestral, scenic, electroacoustic, choral and vocal. His compositions are published by various publishers (Bèrben Edizioni Musicali, Pygmalion, EMEC, Periferia Sheet Music, Babel Scores). His current publisher is Unión Musical Ediciones (UME Madrid), belonging to the British publishing group Music Sales.
Manuel de Falla y Matheu was a Spanish composer and pianist. Along with Isaac Albéniz, Francisco Tárrega, and Enrique Granados, he was one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century. He has a claim to being Spain's greatest composer of the 20th century, although the number of pieces he composed was relatively modest.
Tomás Marco Aragón is a Spanish composer and writer on music.
Pedro Vilarroig is a professor of physics and cosmology at the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid and a former Spanish composer. He is a proponent of neotonalism, having founded and led the Asociación Española de Compositores Neotonales.
Alberto Posadas, is a Spanish composer.
Juan José Colomer is a Spanish composer.
Benet Casablancas Domingo is a Spanish Catalan composer and musicologist.
Hèctor Parra i Esteve is a Spanish composer.
Flores Chaviano is an accomplished Cuban composer, guitarist, professor and orchestral conductor that has achieved great international recognition.
Fernando Egozcue is an Argentinian guitarist and composer.
Mauricio Sotelo, is a Spanish composer and conductor.
Miguel Ángel Roig-Francolí is a Spanish/American composer, music theorist, and pedagogue. His 1980 Cinco piezas para orquesta, commissioned by Radio Nacional de España and written in a postmodern, neotonal style, won first prize in the National Composition Competition of the Spanish Jeunesses Musicales in 1981 and second prize at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in 1982, and continues to be widely performed in Spain. His later compositions often have spiritual themes and are based on sacred texts and the melodies of Gregorian chant. In 2016 he won the American Prize in Composition for Perseus, for symphonic band. An expert on Renaissance composers Tomás de Santa María, Antonio de Cabezón, and Tomás Luis de Victoria, he has published numerous scholarly articles and monographs and two textbooks. Roig-Francolí is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music.
Roberto López Corrales, also known by the artistic pseudonym ROLOCO, is a Spanish visual artist and composer.
Mark Andre is a French composer living in Germany. He was known as "Marc André," his birth name, until 2007, when he formally revised the spelling. He lives in Berlin. Andre's compositions durch (2006), ...auf... III (2007), and Wunderzaichen (2014) received multiple votes in a 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000.
Carmelo Alonso Bernaola was a Spanish composer and clarinetist from Basque Country. A member of the Generation of '51, he was one of the most influential composers in the Spanish musical scene of the second half of the 20th century.
Jorge Grundman Isla is a Spanish classical composer, musicologist, musician and professor who has helped to recover the music of Robert Kahn and Adalbert Gyrowetz among others through the non-profit music foundation created by him.
Federico Jusid is an Argentinian composer who resides and works between Madrid and Los Angeles. He has written the scores for more than 40 feature films and over 25 television series.
His work includes the score for the Academy Award®-winner for Best Foreign Film The Secret in Their Eyes, for which he received the nomination for the Spanish Academy Goya Award® for Best Original Score.
He has recently worked with Alberto Iglesias writing additional compositions for the original score of Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings, and he has also composed the OST for Kidnap with Halle Berry, and Happy 140. Other notable scores include The Life Unexpected, Everybody Has a Plan, The Escape, The Hidden Face, I Want to Be a Soldier, and more recently Magallanes, Getulio, The Ignorance of Blood, Betibu or Francis, Father Jorge.
On television, his most recognised work is the soundtrack for the Spanish historical drama Isabel, with whom he won several awards, such as International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) Award and Reel Music Award. In 2015 he made the score for the TV series Under Suspicion and The Refugees and just released the historic drama Charles, King Emperor, sequel of Isabel.
He has also composed works for concert hall premiered throughout Europe and America by recognized soloist and chamber ensembles. As a pianist and composer, he has performed and toured prestigious theaters in Europe, Asia and America. He recorded for labels BMG, IRCO, Magenta Discos and Melopea.
Fabián Panisello is an Argentine composer, conductor and educator.
Ángel Arteaga de la Guía was a Spanish musician and composer.
Eduardo Morales Caso, is a Cuban composer.
Jesús Torres is a Spanish composer, born in Saragossa, Spain, on 15 July 1965.