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Miguel Pons received his musical education at the\u00a0Madrid\u00a0Royal Conservatory of Music, studying\u00a0Harmony\u00a0with Gabriel Fern\u00e1ndez \u00c1lvez, Counterpoint and Fugue with Juan Carlos Panadero, Composition and Instrumentation with Valent\u00edn Ruiz and Ant\u00f3n Garc\u00eda Abril, Electroacoustics with Zulema de la Cruz, Physical and Musical Acoustics with\u00a0Antonio Calvo-Manzano, Folklore and Gregorian chant with Emilio Rey and Ismael Fern\u00e1ndez de la Cuesta, respectively, participating at the same time in\u00a0courses of\u00a0twentieth century music\u00a0analysis with Enrique Blanco and \u00c1ngel Huidobro, as well as in numerous educational meetings with composers such as Carmelo Bernaola, Rom\u00e1n Al\u00eds, Luis de Pablo, Claudio Prieto and Crist\u00f3bal Halffter, among others.\u00a0Also in this period he made the first years of Conducting and Choral Direction.\u00a0As an instrumentalist he studied piano with Rub\u00e9n Fern\u00e1ndez Picardo and Clavel Cabeza, doing different perfection courses with Marcelino\u00a0Dom\u00ednguez\u00a0and Aqu\u00edles delle Vigne.<\/div>\n

In this period he obtained the\u00a0Honor Award in\u00a0Harmony and Accompanied Melody, the Honor Award in Composition and Instrumentation and was graduated with honors in Accompaniment and in Musical Forms.<\/p>\n

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In 2001 he received also the Third Prize\u00a0SGAE\u00a0for Young Composers for his work “Trobant Vents” for Wind Quintet.<\/p>\n

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Paralelly with his musical studies, he obtained a BA in Art History at the Aut\u00f3noma University of Madrid.<\/p>\n

Between 2005 and 2007 he was actively involved in organizing the Contemporary Music Festival of Madrid as a member of the Board of Directors of the Madrid Association of Composers, worked as a teacher in the M\u00fasica Creativa School of Madrid, as well as in the audiovisual field, he participated in Film Music and Sound Workshops organized by the\u00a0Author’s Foundation.<\/p>\n

His music has been performed in various national and international festivals and broadcast on television and radio, being some of the most notable performers of his music groups \u00a0like Sartory C\u00e1mara\u00a0,\u00a0the Youth Orchestra of the Community of Madrid,\u00a0Ensemble T\u00e9l\u00e9maque (Marseille),\u00a0Soloists of the Spanish National Orchestra and of the Madrid Symphony Orchestra, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble and the\u00a0Madrid\u00a0Community\u00a0Orchestra and Choir under\u00a0the baton of conductors such as Luis Aguirre, Claudio Ianni, Raoul Lay, Arturo Tamayo or Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00f3n Encinar, with whom he recorded his last three symphonic works for the collection “Spanish and Latin American Composers of Current Music” of the BBVA Foundation and the Verso record label.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Professionally, he compatibilizes “concert music” with the creation and production of music for the audiovisual field such as television, advertising and fiction, with his activity as arranger in various music genres, as well as with film directing which represents, alongside with music, another of his passions.<\/p>\n

In 2014 he created the audiovisual production company BRIDGE MARTIN ART CINEMA with which he has currently carried out his latest projects, highlighting among the most recent the medium-length film Every Next Day or Philosophie Culinaire\u00a0among other fiction productions.<\/p>\n

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Miguel Pons received his musical education at the\u00a0Madrid\u00a0Royal Conservatory of Music, studying\u00a0Harmony\u00a0with Gabriel Fern\u00e1ndez \u00c1lvez, Counterpoint and Fugue with Juan Carlos Panadero, Composition and Instrumentation with Valent\u00edn Ruiz and Ant\u00f3n Garc\u00eda Abril, Electroacoustics with Zulema de la Cruz, Physical and Musical Acoustics with\u00a0Antonio Calvo-Manzano, Folklore and Gregorian chant with Emilio Rey and Ismael Fern\u00e1ndez de … Continue reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miguelpons.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miguelpons.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miguelpons.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miguelpons.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miguelpons.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"http:\/\/miguelpons.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"http:\/\/miguelpons.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miguelpons.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}