COURSE TEACHER
JOSÉ R . PASCUAL-VILAPLANA CONDUCTOR OF THE BARCELONA SYMPHONY BAND ( Muro , Alacant 1971 )
He has been chief conductor of the Barcelona Symphony Band since 2018 and the Bilbao Symphony Band since 2015 . He has studied band conducting with instructors as renowned as Jan Cober , Eugène Corporon , Karl Österreicher and Hans Graf . He has conducted several professional music bands and orchestras in Germany , Colombia , Slovenia , Spain , France , the Netherlands , Cuba , Italy , Portugal , Romania , Switzerland , Uruguay and the USA - ensembles such as the National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands ; the National Youth Orchestra of Colombia ; the SAF Forces Band of Ljubljana ; the national symphony bands of Buenos Aires , Montevideo , A Coruña , Alicante , Santa Cruz de Tenerife , Santiago de Compostela , Vitoria ; the symphonic orchestras of Bilbao , Murcia , Castilla y León ; the Philharmonic Orchestra of Gran Canaria , etc . He has recorded more than thirty CDs as a conductor and he has worked with international soloists like Sergei Nakariakov , Pacho Flores , Jorgen van Rijen , Elisabete Matos , Albert Guinovart , Sergio Carolino or Estrella Morente , among others . He has won the International Conducting Competition of WMC in Kerkrade ( the Netherlands , 1997 ) and the EBBA in Birmingham ( England , 2000 ). Since 2010 he is the main guest conductor of the Portuguese Symphony Band of Oporto .
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