Biography

Miguel Pons received his musical education at the Madrid Royal Conservatory of Music, studying Harmony with Gabriel Fernández Álvez, Counterpoint and Fugue with Juan Carlos Panadero, Composition and Instrumentation with Valentín Ruiz and Antón García Abril, Electroacoustics with Zulema de la Cruz, Physical and Musical Acoustics with Antonio Calvo-Manzano, Folklore and Gregorian chant with Emilio Rey and Ismael Fernández de la Cuesta, respectively, participating at the same time in courses of twentieth century music analysis with Enrique Blanco and Ángel Huidobro, as well as in numerous educational meetings with composers such as Carmelo Bernaola, Román Alís, Luis de Pablo, Claudio Prieto and Cristóbal Halffter, among others. Also in this period he made the first years of Conducting and Choral Direction. As an instrumentalist he studied piano with Rubén Fernández Picardo and Clavel Cabeza, doing different perfection courses with Marcelino Domínguez and Aquíles delle Vigne.

In this period he obtained the Honor Award in Harmony and Accompanied Melody, the Honor Award in Composition and Instrumentation and was graduated with honors in Accompaniment and in Musical Forms.

In 2001 he received also the Third Prize SGAE for Young Composers for his work “Trobant Vents” for Wind Quintet.

Paralelly with his musical studies, he obtained a BA in Art History at the Autónoma University of Madrid.

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 Música Creativa School of Madrid, as well as in the audiovisual field, he participated in Film Music and Sound Workshops organized by the Author’s Foundation.

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  like Sartory Cámara , the Youth Orchestra of the Community of Madrid, Ensemble Télémaque (Marseille), Soloists of the Spanish National Orchestra and of the Madrid Symphony Orchestra, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble and the Madrid Community Orchestra and Choir under the baton of conductors such as Luis Aguirre, Claudio Ianni, Raoul Lay, Arturo Tamayo or José Ramón 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.

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.

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 among other fiction productions.

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