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Antonio Narejos (piano)

He acquires their musical formation in the Superior Conservatories of Alicante, his natal city, and Real of Madrid, where he obtains the Superior Diploma of Piano and that of Music of Camera respectively. The later studies follow the line of the French tradition, with J. Rouvier, P. Montero and J. Cl. Vanden Eynden. It is then when he discovers Marie Jaëll's pianistic world that influences him in a decisive way. Then he worked in Brussels with E. del Pueyo until his death. This great pianist and maestro wrote about Antonio Narejos: “It has impressed me their musical seriousness and their capacity to project it in their more authentic aspects”.

He has offered recitals and master-classes in Spain, Belgium, South Korea, Croatia and Germany. He record for Radio (RNE), Television and Compact-Disc, highlighting the CD with the flutist Rafael Casasempere for Tirreno (Italy) with versions for flute and piano of the two Sonatas Op.120 of J. Brahms and the recording with your own “Minotauro de José Lucas” under discographic stamp RTVE música.

Narejos frequently performed as soloist, in chamber music and orchestra, with conductors as Benito Lauret, Adolfo Gutiérrez Viejo and Joan Guinjoan. Committed with the music of the XX century, Narejos has played the piano integral work for Arnold Schoenberg, as well as created works of different Spanish composers and foreigners. Also he is interpreter of their own work as composer. Antonio Narejos is a versatile musician: as composer it has deserved to be in the Spanish and Hispano-American music's Great Dictionary, published by the General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE). Among their works they count music for piano and orchestral music. They have interpreted his music the Symphonic of Bratislava or the Potentia Symphonic of Lahti.

During three years (1999-2001) it was Director of the International Festival of Youth Orchestras of Murcia. He teaches Piano in the High Conservatory of Music of Murcia where it is professor besides Vicedirector.

Antonio Narejos earned his doctorate in Philosophy at the University of Murcia, Spain, in March 2005. He carried out his doctoral thesis on the Musical Aesthetics of Manuel de Falla under the direction of Francisco Jarauta and Antonio Gallego. This piece of research was possible thanks to a three-year “Manuel de Falla Archive” scholarship. It is worth mentioning that in his doctorate examination Antonio Narejos achieved the highest qualification, unanimously, form each of the five members of the Doctorate Tribunal, which was presided by the composer Ramón Barce.