José Ángel Babiano Ávila
José Ángel Babiano Ávila
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Cádiz, 1988. Composer, pianist, music teacher, score editor and music producer. Founder and CEO of ĒTHĘR, he composes and plays the piano in this ensemble.
As a pianist he has performed numerous recitals as a solo pianist in Cáceres, Seville, Lugano (Ticino Musica Festival) and in Donostia, Bilbao, Vitoria and Santander.
He has been part of festivals such as San Sebastián “Quincena Musical”, Donostia Heineken Jazzaldia, Zarata Fest, Aurrera Fest, Olatu Talka, Bakio Musical Week, among others.
He has made compositions premiered by BOS (Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa), Musikene Chamber groups, Musikene Orkestra Sinfonikoa, End-of-Grade/Master recitals by some classmates and commissions by musicians both in Italy and Spain.
He has composed two symphonies: nº1.- Aro Berria and nº2.- Afrocuban Symphony. Some works for solo piano, violin, violoncello, percussion, clarinet, sax, horn, oboe, harp, etc. duos, trios, etc. 2 strings quartets, and more acoustic music, for electronics, acusmatic music, videomusic. And more than 300 pieces for ĒTHĘR ensemble. To date, he has created, composed and generated some 1000 works of all kinds, classes, styles and musical genres. You can listen his 63 albums on Spotify and rest of stores like iTunes, Amazon, Tidal, Deezer, YouTube, etc.
He has also received a culture grant for the composition of Suite 1 0 1 from the Basque Government and the award for the best video clip 2022 by MusikaBulegoa.
Finally, from July 2021 he is artist of Orpheus Classical label.
Training:
He studied piano in Seville (Conservatorio Fco. Guerrero), Como (Italy, private class), Lugano (Switzerland, Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana), and Donostia / San Sebastián (Musikene). From teachers like Luis Bravo, Elena Rodríguez-Aragón, Vsevolod Dvorkin, Nora Doallo and Gustavo Díaz-Jerez.
Piano Master Classes with Martha Argerich, Dmitri Bashkirov, Anna Kravchenko, Stanislav Lludenitch, Homero Francesc, Giovanni Belluci, William Grant Naboré, Vadim Rudenko, Leonardo Bartelloni, Sandro d'Onofrio, Mauro Harsch, Lilya Zilberstein, Pietro di Maria, Javier Sarmiento or Francisco Perianes, among others.
He studied and finished Musical Composition Bachelor at Musikene, Basque Country, with Ramon Lazkano, Gabriel Erkoreka, Zuriñe Fdez. Gerenabarrena, Guillermo Lauzurika, Stefano Scarani and José Luis Campana.
Composition Master Classes with Miguel Ángel Gris Peñas, Héctor Parra, Mauricio Sotelo, José Manuel López López, Alberto Posadas, Philippe Manoury, Benet Casablancas, Tomás Marco, Dmitri Kourliandski, Rebecca Saunders, Petr Eötvös, Kaya Saariaho, Helmut Lachenmann, among others.
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