BANDA SINFÓNICA CÍRCULO CATÓLICO DE TORRENT (Valencia)

Director:
JOSÉ LUIS PERIS CORDELLAT

Band profile

The band was founded in 1887 - under the name of the Banda de Música del Patronato de la Juventud - and firsr participated in the Valencia International Music Band Contest in 1889 under the direction of Eulogio Piqueres Simó.
Over the past 100 years the band has won many prizes and been led by very notable directors, including: Eulogio Piqueres Simó, José Maria Rius, José Paulino Mora, Mariano Puig Yago, José Maria Andreu Piqueres, Valentín Puig Yago, Enrique Andreu Romero, José Hernández Yago, Francisco Cabrelles Romero, Enrique de Dios Cintero and Juan Pablo Hellín Chaparro, Emilio Campos Campos, Juan Martinez García, José Miguel Peñarrocha Araste, Amando Blanquer Ponsoda and Manuel Campos Vivo.
Also worthy of mention are the band's advanced horn courses directed by Vicente Zarzo Pitarch, solo horn player in the Residentie Orchestra of The Hague, and Manuel Campos Vivó, solo horn player in the Banda Municipal de Valencia. These pioneering courses have become models for other bands to follow.

Director profile

José Luis Peris Cordellat was born in Silla (Valencia) and began his musical studies at the age of seven before joining the Valencia conservatory. At just 17, he obtained a post as teacher at the San Rafael conservatory in Buñol and also became director of the A.M. Banda in Pego, Alicante. He attended the Annecy courses interpretation and virtuosity in France under Daniel Deffayet - teacher at the Paris national music conservatory. In 1985, he won a place as teacher of saxophone in the Oscar Esplá conservatory in Alicante.
In 1998, he won second prize in the Spanish national saxophone competition held in Valencia.
After directing the Pega band, he moved on to direct the Lírica de Silla band, where he won several important prizes in the Valencia International Music Band Contest. He then directed the Catarroja band between 1990-4, before becoming current director of the Torrent band in 1997.
As well as touring throughout Europe, he has worked with some of the country's leading saxophone players - such as Pedro Iturralde, Adolfo Ventas, Daniel Deffayet, Claude Delangle, Philip Geiss, and Serge Bichón. In September 1997, he performed to critical acclaim in the closing ceremony of the XI world saxophone congress at the Palau de la Música in Valencia.
He has made three recordings as director and player for national and regional radio. He regularly works with the Orquesta Municipal de Valencia, Orquesta Sinfónica and the Grup Instrumental de Valencia. He is a founder member of the Cuarteto de Saxofones de Valencia; the Ensemble de Saxofones, Percusión y Piano de Valencia; and the groups SIMA and Nou Mileni.