Jose Antonio Tolosa Almazan

Spain

15 October 1996

The insane dies

"The work is inspired by the life and poetry of Georg Trakl, which may explain certain expressionist aesthetic of these short pieces. Desperation, pain, misunderstanding, drugs, self-destruction and early suicide marked his life and work, and permeate the music of this work. Hard and dark work, with pain and death always present, ends with a simple piece without accompaniment, as a “swan song”, which with its final descending chromaticisms lead the protagonist in tears to self-destruction and final discreet suicide."

José Antonio Tolosa was born in Valencia in 1996. He began his musical studies of piano at the CIM Mislata with teacher Susanna Hovannisyan, and continued them inValencia Conservatory with teacher María Amparo Morell. Later he graduated bachelor from the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) with professor Rafael Salinas. He is currently studying musical composition with composers David del Puerto and Pablo Díaz and a high specialization diploma in piano performance with the pianist Josu de Solaun in Musical Arts Madrid. 

He has performed as a pianist in the most important venues in Spain, as well as abroad, often performing their own works.

His activity as a composer stands out for having written a total of 22 works, both for solo piano, orchestral, and chamber music, developing a diverse and own language, which has led him to winning prizes in this discipline such as the "Maestro Clavel" prize from composition 2022.