Miguel Ángel Gómez-Martínez, former director of the RTVE orchestra and choir, dies | Culture | EUROtoday

The conductor and composer Miguel Ángel Gómez-Martínez, former director of the RTVE Symphony Orchestra and Choir, has died in Málaga on the age of 74, the general public broadcaster introduced on Monday. “The corporation remembers his great professional figure in two outstanding periods (1984-1987 and 2016-2019) and expresses its deepest condolences to family and friends,” the press launch mentioned.

Born in Granada on 17 September 1949 to a household of musicians, he discovered to play the piano and violin at a really younger age and to compose in his hometown of Madrid and within the United States. At the age of 13 he already held the title of piano instructor on the Granada Conservatory. And at 21 he was the youngest graduate within the historical past of the Conducting course in Vienna, the place he was an impressive scholar of the historic conductor Hans Swarowski. During his keep in Austria he acquired the Extraordinary Prize from the Ministry of Science. His first efficiency as a conductor was in 1973 in Vienna and he later directed essentially the most prestigious symphony and philharmonic orchestras on this planet over 5 many years, equivalent to these of Vienna, Berlin, London, Hamburg (appointed as honorary conductor in perpetuity), Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Osaka, Oslo, Copenhagen and Cameristi della Scala (Milan).

In 1985 he was appointed inventive director of the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, a place he would maintain till 1991, and which compelled him to go away the route of the RTVE Orchestra, to which he would return after nearly 30 years. In Spain, the place he would make his first look as a conductor in 1975 throughout the framework of the Granada Music and Dance Festival, he would additionally occupy the place of director of the Euskadi Symphony Orchestra and the Valencia Orchestra.

His different side, together with that of director, was that of composer. Among his works are the Symphony of discovery, Symphony of water, Five tributes in 4 actions (Symphony No. 3), A Spanish Requiemthe opera Atallaha number of concertos for piano, violin, flute and numerous chamber works. He has acquired quite a few awards, such because the Gold Medal of the City of Granada “for his extraordinary artistic merits”, the Medal of Honor of the cities of Bonn, Madrid, Munich, Hamburg, Bern, Mannheim, Houston and the state of Bavaria, amongst others, in addition to the Encomienda de Número of the Order of Civil Merit, awarded by the King of Spain. He has additionally acquired distinctions for his recordings for the labels Decca, Orfeo, RCA, Bongiovanni, Teldec, Sony, Dabringhaus and Grimm, Naxos, Hispavox, Ondine.

The Gómez-Martínez International Foundation, created along with his spouse, Alessandra Ruiz-Zúñiga Macías, will tackle the long run activity of sustaining and disseminating his musical legacy. The funeral ceremony and burial of Miguel Ángel Gómez-Martínez will happen in his native Granada within the coming days.