Jose Gonzalez Granero

USA

11 Feb 1985

DUOLOGUE

“Duologue” is a twisted word coming from Dialogue. With this piece I tried to combine rhythmic and melodic motives as well as different textures, with the end goal of creating a harmonious conversation between the violin and piano where at the end of the piece both melodic and rhythmic parts are intertwined. Also, in the short duration of this piece I try to show different types of characters from Spanish inspired motives, very melodic (quasi romantic) to aggressive expressions and mixed meters.

This piece has been written specifically for the Bartók World Competition 2022."

Jose Gonzalez Granero is a Spanish/American composer based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

In the fall of 2022, his piece GION will get the West Coast premiere with the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra at Davies Symphony Hall and his new work CADENZA II for Solo Violin will get the World Premiere at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

He has been awarded many prizes including a Honorary Mention and Finalist on the Bartók World Composition Competition in Hungary 2020, 1st Prize "Villiers International Competition for String Quartet" (UK), 2nd Prize "Comines-Warneton International Composition Competition" for wind ensemble (Belgium), 3rd Prize "Zodiac International Composition Competition"(France). 1st Prize "Cum Laude International Composition Competition" (Spain).

Granero's music has been widely performed and premiered by musicians, ensembles and orchestras around the globe such as musicians from the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Ballet, Académie festival Aix en Provence (France), Stanford Philharmonia Orchestra (USA), London City Orchestra (UK), Granada University Orchestra (Spain), Musique Royale des Guides (Belgium), Emporia Symphony Orchestra (USA), Music in May Festival (USA), Villiers String Quartet (UK), Ribera String Quartet (Spain), Habemus String Quartet (Spain), EnsembleSF (USA), Farallon Quintet(USA) among many others. 

Granero has studied composition with David Conte (San Francisco Conservatory), counterpoint with Benjamin Boyle, Phillip Lasser (Juilliard School)and orchestration with Michel Merlet (Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris) and Narcise Bonet. In 2018 Mr. Granero was accepted to study composition at The Nadia Boulanger European American Musical Alliance in Paris where one of his art song was premiered at Scola Cantorum.