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José Suñer-Oriola
Originally from El Puig de Santa María (Valencia – Spain), he studied music and percussion at the Valencia Conservatorium where he obtained the title of superior professor and the extraordinary prize of a higher degree, further studying in Madrid, Barcelona and Luxembourg.
He studied harmony, analysis and counterpoint at the Valencia Conservatory and later Conducting and composition with Maestro Julio Ribelles.
He has participated in the music festivals of Barcelona, Santander, Nimes, Luxembourg, Maastricht, Ludwigshafen, Innsbruck, Paris, Brussels, Edinburgh, London, Hamamatsu, Tokyo, Shanghai, Cincinnati, Nashville and Chicago.
He has been a member of the Municipal Band of San Sebastián, Conservatory of San Sebastián, Bilbao Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra of the Opera of Barcelona.
He is currently a Professor of the professional Symphonic Municipal Band of Valencia. His works are published in Catalana d'Edicions Musicals (Barcelona), by Blas-Basen (Stockholm-Sweden), Arts i mes (Valencia) and Tot per l'Aire (Valencia) being performed in Europe, America, Australia, Japan and China. He is a member of SGAE, WASBE and M. I. Academy of Valencian Music.
He has been conductor of the Societat Musical Eslava d’Albuixech, Centre Instructiu Sta Cecilia de Puçol, also conducting as a guest the Lira Realense de Real de Montroy, Unió Musical Sta Mª del Puig, SM de Alboraia, SM d’Almassora, SM d’Alcàsser, and SM of Villanueva de Castellón Symphonic Bands.
He was the founder of the Symphonic Orchestra of Puçol and the Young Symphonic Orchestra of SUM El Puig.
In 2006 he was invited by the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra.
He was awarded the Fennell Special Prize at The First Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra Composition Competition 2006, with the SACEM prize, third prize in the Coups de Vents Composition Competition 2008 in Lille - France, and was also a finalist in the Second Composition Contest Frank Ticheli in New York, USA 2009.
He has lectured his works at Middle Tennessee State University, Cincinnati University (USA) and Berklee Valencia, being nominated in 2013 for his work Phobos at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards (Los Angeles - USA) and in 2015 by El Jardín de las Hesperides.
In 2016 he received the Euterpe Prize for Symphonic Musical Creativity awarded by the (Federation of the Musical Societies of the Valencian Community) for his work The Garden of the Hesperides.
In 2019 he was invited to conduct a monographic of his works with the Municipal Symphonic Band of Pereira, Colombia.
His compositions have been performed and premiered in auditoriums such as the Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels (Belgium), KKL in Lucerne and Stravinsky Auditorium in Montreux (Switzerland), Vichy Opera (France), Risko Kosey Auditorium, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, and Osaka Auditorium (Japan), Stanford University, Cincinnati University, Tennessee Murfreesboro University, Minnesota University Auditoriums (USA), Melbourne University Auditorium (Australia), Rodahal (Holland), Trodheim Auditorium (Norway), Vasa Museum and Stockholm Auditorium (Sweden), Palau de la Música & Palau de les Arts of Valencia, Palace of the Opera A Coruña, Barcelona Auditorium and Madrid National Auditorium (Spain) among others.
