Óscar Candendo

Department of Classical and Contemporary Music

ocandendo@esmuc.cat

Orgue

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Education

PhD in Musicology, University of Valladolid.


Advanced Professor in the specialties of organ, piano, harpsichord, and chamber music.


Organ studies in Toulouse (Centre d'Études Supérieures de Musique et de Danse, Profs. Michel Bouvard and Jan Willem Jansen), Barcelona (Prof. Montserrat Torrent), and Stuttgart (Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Prof. Bernhard Haas).

Concerts

Concerts at various European festivals.

Publications

Coordinator of Anthologia Sacra, a comprehensive collection of the works of the aforementioned Vicente Goicoechea, published by Ficta edicions i produccions in 2020.

Awards

First Prizes at the Permanent Competition of Juventudes Musicales de España (1992) and the International University Course “Música en Compostela” (1993).


Orfeón Donostiarra–University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea Music Research Award (2021) for a study on the Álava-born composer of sacred music Vicente Goicoechea Errasti (1854–1916).

Teaching

Professor of Organ at the Higher School of Music of Catalonia, Barcelona, since its foundation in 2001.


Principal Organist of the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, San Sebastián.