ASOCIACIÓN CULTURAL BANDA DE MÚSICA DE ZAMORA

Director:
JOSÉ IGNACIO PETIT MATÍAS

Band profile

The band is the successor of the well-known Banda de Música Provincial - formed in 1910. Over the years the band was led by Felipe Blanco Aguirre, Nacor Blanco Toranzo, Carlos Cerveró, and José Ignacio Petit Matías. The band is now funded and organized by its own association.
As well as forming an indispensable part of Zamora's Easter Week celebrations, it has recently offered concerts in Asturias, Galicia, Andalusia, Catalonia, Madrid, and Portugal.
In recent years, directors of the band have included Álvaro Lozano Rodríguez, Miguel Jiménez Resino, and Manuel Gran Roselló. The current director, José Ignacio Petit Matías, gave his first performance at Zamora's 2002 Easter celebrations.

Director profile

José Ignacio Petit Matías was born in Miranda del Ebro (Burgos), and began his musical studies under Nacor Blanco Toranzo, then director of the Banda de Música del Patronato. He later studied harmony, horn, and percussion at the conservatories of Zamora, Oviedo, Salamanca and Madrid. He holds a degree in percussion.
He studied directing with Bernardo Adam Ferrero. As a percussionist, he has performed with the Banda del Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Valladolid, the Municipal de Alba de Tormes, the Municipal de Medina del Campo, the Municipal de Salamanca, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Madrid.
He has participated in the recording of a CD sponsored by the provincial government in Salamanca.
He teaches at schools in Valladolid, Alba de Tormes, Medina del Campo, and the professional music conservatory in Zamora. He also teaches at summer schools in central Spain.
He was director of the Zamora conservatory band from 1996 until 1998, and has led the Zamora Banda de Música cultural association since its foundation in March 2000.