ENRIQUE ALBORCH TARRASÓ

Enrique Alborch Tarrasó (Castellón de Rugat, Valencia, 1976) graduated with a degree in music specializing in trumpet, he began his musical studies at the Unión Musical Benicadell under the guidance of his uncle Vicent Tarrasó. He has studied at the conservatories of Carcaixent, Valencia and Murcia, with professors Salvador Albert, Alejandro Castañeda and Emilio Gómez. He has participated in several courses of improvement of his instrument, courses of harmony, analysis and composition and has been part of the Orquesta de Vientos Filarmonía, the Big Band of Valle de Albaida and various chamber ensembles. He has taught at the music schools of the Ateneo Musical de Cocentaina, Escuela Comarcal de la Vall d'Albaida, Unión Musical Belgidense de Bélgida, Unión Musical de La Pobla del Duc and Unión Musical Benicadell de Castelló de Rugat. From 2008 to 2020 he was interim choir teacher in several conservatories of the network of centers of Conselleria. Currently and since 2020, he is a career civil servant of the Corps of Music Teachers of Secondary Education. He has a Diploma in Band Conducting from EMUSVALL with Maestro José R. Pascual-Vilaplana and has also expanded his conducting knowledge with Jan Cober, Henrie Adams, Enrique García Asensio, Ferrer Ferran, Jose Mª Cervera, Eugene Corporon, César Álvarez, Josep R. Gil-Tárrega, Sanz-Espert and Rafael S. Mombiedro. He has also received training in composition with Ramón García and singing with Raül Belda. He has been assistant conductor of the Agrupación Coral de Castelló de Rugat, principal conductor of the Unión Musical de La Pobla del Duc, of the Ateneo Musical de Cocentaina, of the Agrupación Musical Ontinyent, of the Sociedad Escuela Musical "Santa Cecília" de l'Olleria and of the Asociación Unión Musical Bocairent with which he has recorded different CDs and participated in different contests and competitions obtaining some important prizes. He has also been guest conductor in the Agrupación Musical de Pego. He is also regularly invited to conduct his music in numerous Valencian and Alicante bands. He is currently the chief conductor of the Sociedad Musical Banyeres de Mariola and founding conductor of the Valencia Brass Band by Inel. As a composer he has premiered several pieces of festive music, some of them have been commissioned by important festive towns and others have been awarded in different composition competitions: "Caballeros de la Ofra" (2nd prize in Bocairent, 1997), " Terra Nostra"(1st prize in San Vicente del Raspeig, 1999), "La Victoria" (Accesit of the Symposium of the music of Moors and Christians, 2001), "Guillem" (Finalist in the composition contest of L'Olleria, 2008) , "21 Contrabandistas" (3rd classified in the contest of Monforte del Cid, 2009), "Agrupats" (Finalist in the composition contest of L'Olleria, 2010), "Romualdo Soler" (1st Prize in Alcoy, 2014), "Júlia " (2nd Prize in Crevillent, 2015) and "Marqués de Villena" (1st Prize in Villena, 2018). In 2006 he was in charge of writing the compulsory work of the XXI Certamen de Música Festera Ciudad de Elda with the Christian march "Sibila de Fortià". All his music for band is recorded on CD by different bands. It should be noted that in January 2016 he presented Amadaràs, a monographic CD of his festive music recorded by the Unión Musical Benicadell de Castelló de Rugat under the direction of maestro Jordi Soler. Outside the field of Festera Music he was also awarded in 2020 with the 1st Prize in the VI Contest of Didactic Composition for Music Band of the Province of Alicante organized by FSMCV and Diputació. In October 2016 he is double winner of the EUTERPE Awards granted by the FSMCV in the categories of "Musical Creation - Music for the Festival" with his work "Júlia" and "Musical Production", shared award with the Unión Musical Benicadell for the monographic CD of his music: "Amadarás".

In addition, he has been required in Elda, Yecla, L'Olleria, Villena and Ibi as a juror in their music contests and in Albaida, l'Olleria, Banyeres and Sax in their pasodoble interpretation contests. He has also been a member of the jury in the Concurso de Jóvenes Intérpretes organized by the Sanganxa store in Llosa de Ranes. He has been musical advisor in the recordings of different musical societies. In 2012 he belonged to the commission in charge of awarding the Euterpe prizes of the FSMCV. And in 2017 he had the honor of conducting "Chimo" to a thousand musicians in the opening ceremony of the Moors and Christians of Ontinyent. He belongs to the ANDB (Asociación Nacional de Directores de Banda), the SGAE (Sociedad General de Autores y Editores), the AIE (Asociación de Intérpretes y Ejecutantes) and is a member and vice president of the ACMMIC ( Asociación de Compositores de Música para los Moros y Cristianos).