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José
González
  Granero

composer
clarinetist
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"[José González Granero] music is mature, entertaining, excellent work. - San Francisco Classical Voice

 

"[Matsuri Overture] It is very well composed from its overall structure down to small-scale details and the orchestration is  superb. Granero packs just the right amount of material - Martin Gaskell

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About

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José González Granero  is a Spanish-American multi–Award winning composer and clarinetist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His upcoming premieres as a composer include a premiere at the Teatro Real (Royal Opera House, Madrid) and at The Grand Teton Music Festival in Wyoming. His music is exclusively published with Universal Edition.

 

Mr. Granero's compositions have been widely performed and premiered in North America, Europe and Asia by orchestras such as Académie Festival d'Aix—en—Provence, San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, Stanford Philharmonia, Santa Cruz Symphony Orchestra, London City Orchestra, and the University of Granada Orchestra. Mr. Granero has also received commissions from chamber music ensembles such as Music in May Chamber Music Festival (USA), Farallon Quintet (USA), Proemium Metals (Spain), clarinetist István Kohán (Hungary-Japan), Ensemble SF (USA) and Stanford Philharmonic Orchestra (USA). 

Mr. Granero’s skill and talent as a composer has been recognized across the globe. In both 2020 and 2022, he was a two time finalist in the Bartók World Composition Competition in Hungary, he received an honorary mention for his 2nd String Quartet in the 2020 Bartók World Composition Competition. A number of other accolades have been given to him, including 1st prize Winner of the Villiers String Quartet International Composition Competition (UK), 2nd prize in the ‘Ville de Comines-Warneton’ composition competition (Belgium), and two nominations for the Hollywood Music Awards

 

As a clarinetist, Mr. Granero has further been honored by a number of awards, including the Grand Prize for Exceptional Talent and Musicianship in the Pasadena Instrumental Competition (2009), 1st prize in the Burbank Philharmonic Concerto Competition (2009), 2nd place in the Downey Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition (2009), and 2nd prize in the Pasadena Instrumental Competition (2008).

 

In addition to his awards, Mr. Granero has had a lustrous career as a composer and clarinetist. Notably, he was Principal Clarinet of the Andalucia Philharmonic Orchestra (Spain) from 2005 - 2007. He has also performed as Principal Clarinet with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra (Norway), Odense Symfoniorkester (Denmark), Young Musician Foundation Debut Orchestra (USA), Galicia Symphony Orchestra (Spain), City of Granada Orchestra (Spain), Orchestre des Jeunes de la Mediterranee (France), and the European Union Youth Wind Orchestra (Luxemburg). Mr. Granero also had the privilege of touring as a soloist with UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, performing Mozart Clarinet Concerto throughout Spain. In addition, he is an active chamber music player and has performed with Susan Graham, Music@Menlo, Oregon Bach Festival, Music in the Vineyard, Music in May and EnsembleSF.

 

Presently, Mr. González Granero holds the Principal Clarinet position with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra.

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" … a narrative response to the events and psychological states in a Lorca poem underlies the First Quartet by Jose Gonzalez Granero, not dissimilar in principle or idiom to  Schoenberg’s  Verklarte Nacht, and this Iberian tinted expressionism won over the listener in the hall and online to gain the first prize." 

 

-The Strad Magazine.

 

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