Dr. Òscar Colomina i Bosch
PhD (RAM), MMus BMusHons (GSMD), BMus (Valencia), ARAM
Dean
Òscar Colomina is Dean of Music at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid since 2020, and former Director of Music of The Yehudi Menuhin School (2017-2020) and Professor of Orchestration at the Royal Academy of Music (2013-2020),
Òscar is a sought-after composer and conductor who has guest conducted and lectured at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague – School for Young Talent, the Akoesticum Talent Programme in Holland, and is part of the teaching faculty of Porto PianoFest. Other commissions and performances include the Aldeburgh Festival, Philharmonia Orchestra, Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical, Trío Arbós, Orchestra of the Swan, Grup Instrumental de València, Schubert Ensemble and the Real Filharmonia de Galicia; concert venues across the UK, USA, Spain, Portugal, France, Denmark and Italy, numbering the Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Yale and New York Universities, Palau de la Música de Valencia and Auditorio de Galicia among them.
A commission from the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition, Shpigl for solo violin (2016), was described by American composer John Adams as ‘a small masterpiece of both musical and dramatic imagination’. Impressed by the piece, Adams programmed Shpigl in the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
As a conductor, Òscar was engaged to conduct the Orquesta de Valencia in the ENSEMS International Festival 2017, and has appeared in the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Fundación Juan March and the Pau Casals International Festival. Recently invited to conduct the Youth Orchestras of the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra, he has conducted orchestras and ensembles including the Royal Academy of Music New Music Ensemble, The Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra, the Royal Conservatoire of the Hague – School for Young Talent’s Atheneum Kamerorkest, Camerata XXI Chamber Orchestra, Orpheus Sinfonia (London) and the Conservatorio Superior de Castilla y León’s New Music Ensemble.
A member of the Spanish National Youth Orchestra (performing with Carlo Maria Giulini and Gianandrea Noseda), he later pursued further studies at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Royal Academy of Music with Malcolm Singer and Simon Bainbridge (composition) and Alan Hazeldine (conducting).