Francisco Coll Garcia has collaborated with Albert Pellicer and Iria Perestrelo to create Óxido - First Repetition.
Francisco Coll (b.1985, Valencia) studied trombone at the Joaquín Rodrigo Conservatoire of Music in Valencia and the Royal Conservatoire of Music in Madrid graduating with the Honour Prize. Currently he is studying for an MMus in Composition at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Richard Baker with the support of the IVM Scholarship and the Guildhall Trust, and privately with Thomas Adès. His first commission, "...Whose name I don't want to remember" (2005) for double brass quintet, was premiered in Avery Fisher Hall of the Lincoln Center of New York, by Canadian Brass and the brass section of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. He won the International week of chamber music Prize for El juego lúgubre for two pianos (Montserrat, 2006), and the National Award "Valencia Crea" for La Ciudad Paranoica (2007) for ensemble of 10 players. Recently, he won the "Carmelo A. Bernaola" SGAE Prize for Cuando el niño era niño...(2008) for piano quartet. Aqua Cinereus (2006) for large orchestra, was premiered on the "Palau de la Musica", by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Valencia University conducted by Cristóbal Soler. Hidden Blue (2009) for the London Symphony Orchestra was workshopped and recorded on October 5th 2009 as part of the LSO Discovery Panufnik Young Composers Scheme. Current projects include a new piece commissioned by Los Angeles Philharmonic to be premiere at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2011.
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