José M. Sánchez-Verdú

José María Sánchez-Verdú is a Spanish composer and conductor, born in 1968 in Algeciras. He studied at the Royal Conservatory in Madrid, took a law degree, and then studied composition with Franco Donatoni in Siena in 1992 and with Hans Zender in Frankfurt from 1996 to 1999. He has written a large body of stage, orchestral and chamber music, including the opera El viaje a Simorgh for the Teatro Real in Madrid.