Jorge Grundman

Spanish composer, musician and musicologist. Between 1978 and 1985 he was a key member (playing keyboards and singing) of power pop/techno pop groups such as ETC and Farenheit 451, also collaborating with Pistones and Episodio. He was also one of the former members of the synthpop group called Tropico De Cancer. Distancing himself from the pop music industry, he began his University teaching career in 1985 and started to privately compose music at home. Some of his first compositions were aired and labelled as "New Age Music", including the celebrated "Los Hijos del Frío" which is acclaimed as one of the most famous electronic tunes of MP3.com, where it was published in January 2001. On his classical side, there are near thirty recordings published with his music from 1981 and he has worked on projects in cinema and television, both in Spain and abroad. His works have been performed and broadcasted mainly in the United States, Canada, France, United Kingdom, China, Japan, Brazil and Spain. Grundman has won many awards such as the Narcissus Awards of the United Stated in 2005 and the NAR 2004 as “Best Contemporary Instrumental Album” for his work "We are the forthcoming past, take care of it". Also he has received awards from Boston Metro Opera for his monodrams "God's Sketches" for String Quartet, Soprano and Mallets and "Four Sad Seasons Over Madrid" for Soprano, Violin, Piano and String Orchestra. His music has been recorded for Warner Music, Chandos Records, Sony Classical, Virgin Records, RCA and other independent record labels, and it is published by Music Sales Classical. As a musicologist, Grundman has led the diffusion of consonant contemporary music and has premiered in Spain works by Vladimir Martynov, Michael Hurd, Gerald Finzi, Astor Piazzolla, Marjan Mozetich or Giovanni Sollima, among others. He is co-founder of the Non Profit Music Chamber Orchestra, together with the Violinist Ara Malikian. He has collaborated in world premiere recordings of works by Ernesto and Rodolfo Halffter and Julián Bautista with the Orquesta de Extremadura and his conductor Jesús Amigo; as also in the diffusion and rediscovering of the work of Bohemian composer Adalbert Gyrowetz (1763-1850) or late composer Robert Kahn (1865-1951) with the B3 Classic Trio. He founded Non Profit Music to facilitate donating proceeds from his music sales to "Doctors Without Borders" in Spain.