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With Teresa Berganza,
Canciones Xacobeas’s recording

With Camilo José Cela


With maestro Ros Marbá

Honorary Member of the University Board for the Arts of the University of Alcalá de Henares

Recording of “Alhambra” in Berlin, with Frübeck de Burgos

Biography of Anton García Abril

Born in Teruel

His symphonic work is very wide-ranging and spans most musical forms: opera, orchestral works, cantatas, concertos (violin, piano, guitar, cello, flute, two pianos, two guitars) and chamber music. Of note in this last category are his numerous song cycles inspired by the most prestigious Spanish poets.


From 1974 to 2003 he taught as Professor of Composition and Musical Forms at the Royal Higher Conservatory of Music of Madrid.



Director of the “Manuel de Falla” chair in Cadiz.
Professor of composition at the School of Higher Musical Studies of Galicia.

Professor of composition at the “Música en Compostela” summer school.


In March 1982 he was elected to be a member of the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Madrid, in May 1995 was named corresponding member of the San Luis Academy of Fine Arts of Zaragoza and in January 2003 was unanimously named Honorary Fellow of the same Academy. In 1997 he became corresponding member of the Nuestra Señora de las Angustias Academy of Fine Arts of Granada, in 2000 of the National Academy of Fine Arts of the Republic of Argentina and in 2001 corresponding member of the Santa Isabel de Hungría Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Seville.

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He has been awarded numerous prizes and awards:


* Siena International Composition Competition Prize
* Spanish Association of Writers and Artists Prize
* Education and Cultural Services Prize
* Cuenca IV Week of Religious Music Prize
* Spanish National Theatre Prize
* Spanish National Music Teaching and Research Prize
* Andres Segovia Prize
* Named Favourite Son of the city of Teruel
* San Jorge Medal
* Medal for Cultural Merit awarded by the Government of Aragón
* Spanish National Music Prize 1993
* Fundación Guerrero Prize for Spanish Music 1993
* Aragón Medal for Merit in the Arts 1996
* 1996 Music Prize, awarded by the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (Spanish Society of Authors and Publishers) and the Asociación de Intérpretes y Ejecutantes (Spanish Association of Performers and Producers)* 1997, in Zaragoza, named “Man of the Year”, by popular vote
* Spanish National “Cultura Viva” Prize, 1998

* Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts, 1998
* 1998 Music Prize awarded by the Spanish Society of Authors and Publishers and the Spanish Association of Performers and Producers
* 2000 Music Prize awarded by the Spanish Society of Authors and Publishers and the Spanish Association of Performers and Producers
* “Orfeón Donostiarra/Universidad País Vasco 2001” Prize for musical creation
* 2002 Music Prize awarded by the Spanish Society of Authors and Publishers and the Spanish Association of Performers and Producers
* “Aragón 2003” Prize
* In 2003 awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Complutense University, Madrid (2003)
* Gold Medal from the Royal Higher Conservatory of Music of Madrid (22nd November 2004)
* Named Favourite Son of Mirambel (Teruel) (22nd July 2005)
* Honorary Professor of the National Music Conservatory of Lima (2005)
* Grand Cross of Alfonso X El Sabio (2005)
* “Tomás Luis de Victoria” Latin American Music Prize (2006)
* Culture Prize, in the music category, from the Comunidad de Madrid (2007)
* Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad de las Artes of Havana, Cuba (2007)
* President of the Fundación Jacinto e Inocencio Guerrero (2008)
* Extraordinary Talent Prize 2009
* Honorary Member of the University Board for the Arts of the University of Alcalá de Henares (2009)