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Oscar Colomina i Bosch (1977)
Oscar studied composition with Malcolm Singer at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he graduated with first class honours and gained a Master in Composition with distinction. Since September 2006, Oscar is a research student at the Royal Academy of Music under the supervision of Simon Bainbridge.
He has been finalist of the Barclays-St. Paul's Cathedral Competition Prize , and winner of the competition celebrating the 50th aniversary of the Royal Festival Hall's organ, as well as the Musicians Company Dr. Alfred Prindl Memorial Prize, the Guildhall School/Orchestra of the Swan Composition Prize and Valencia's Hui Hui Música 2008. |

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Òscar has been commissioned among others by the Aldeburgh Festival, the Philharmonia Orchestra for its Music of Our Time series, the Orchestra of the Swan, the Valencian Music Institute, the Trio Rebec, the Sounds Underground Ensemble and Kontakte Percussió.
His music has been premiered at the Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Sir Adrian Boult Hall, Yale University's Sprague Hall and the Palau de la Música de Valencia; it has also featured in festivals such as the City of London Festival, Manchester QuartetFest, the European Congress of Conservatoires, ENSEMS-València, or the Encuentro Internacional de Compositores 2006 in Mallorca. In August 2006 he was invited to be resident composer with the Joven Orquesta Internacional Ciudad de Oviedo . His orchestral piece Le Vitrail Englouti was premiered by the Royal Academy Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Cohen in a project mentored by Yan-Pascal Tortelier. More recently he was selected by the Yale University Composition Department to take part in a Cross-Atlantic Partnership project with the Royal Academy of Music, involving a concert in London and a guest visit and concert at Yale University , USA .
Oscar teaches composition, harmony, analysis, Music History and aural at the Yehudi Menuhin School and is invited regularly to teach at the junior departments of the Royal College of Music and the Junior Royal Academy of Music. He has been supported in his studies by a number of scholarships awarded by the Valencian Music Institute, the Spanish Ministry of Culture and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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