RAFAEL SÁNCHEZ MOMBIEDRO
Studied Piano, Harmony, Counterpoint, Composition and Choir Direction, obtaining various Honor Awards. He expanded his studies in Choral Conducting with Carl Hfgset, Corina Campos and José Manuel Tife, and those of Composition with Antón García Abril.
He has extensive experience as a choir director.. Founder of the “Manuel Palau” Choir, with which he won awards in Torrevieja and Avilés, He was principal director of the University Choir “Sant Yago” of Valencia, with which he made montages such as Magnificat of J. S. Bach, Requiem by M. Duruflé, IX Symphony of Beethoven and Blessed Man by M. Gorecki. He has conducted concerts in France, Germany, Italia, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Canada, United States and South Africa.
He has been musical director and workshop Sacred Millennium and Millenium Pace, festivals held in Valencia in 1999 and 2001.
Between 2003 and 2008 He was principal director of the Choir of the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
Moved by the interest in the renewal of the classical choral repertoire, in 2003 create NEOVOCALIS, group with which he widely disseminates choral literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. In addition, He is director and founder of VOCAL XXI, choir created in 2013, specialized in symphonic-choral productions.
As a composer he has an important catalog of works for choir. Among his awards are the “Juan Bautista Comes” Choral Composition Prize. 2001 from Segorbe, as well as the “Paco LLácer” Prize for Choral Composition in the children's choir modalities (2001) and mixed choir (2010).
Since July 1990 He has worked as a teacher at the Torrent Professional Conservatory of Music (Valencia). He has been a professor of Improvisation and Accompaniment at the Higher Conservatory of Music of Valencia, where he currently holds the chair of Choir Conducting.