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The Didsbury High School Symphonic Winds under the musical direction of Kirk Wassmer will perform for the first time in Canada the composition A trip to Spain composed by Javier Pérez Garrido. This easy concert band suite describes the most representative Spanish cities (Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville and Granada) and was worldwide premiered during their Spanish tour, 2015.

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Javier Pérez Garrido has recently composed Rocking trombone! a new trombone piece commissioned by the Numskull International Competition. This work will be one of the mandatory compositions to be performed by the contestants.

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The Didsbury High School Symphonic Winds from Canada under the direction of Kirk Wassmer will have a concert tour in Spain next April. Due to the reason that the band wanted to premiere a Spanish composition they decided to commission composer Javier Pérez Garrido to write a new piece for this special ocassion. Thanks to this cooperation project A trip to Spain was born at the end of 2014. This symphonic composition for concert band is divided into five little movements dedicated to the cities where the Didsbury will be in such as Madrid, Seville, Granada, Valencia and Barcelona. Their first concert will be at Teatro Auditorio "Federico García Lorca" in Madrid (April 16th, 20.00pm) and Javier Pérez Garrido has been invited to conduct the first public performance of his new band work.

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The renowned band music publishing house Molenaar Editions (The Netherlands) has just published a new Cd recording titled “Back to Normandy” that includes the European Overture by Javier Pérez Garrido. The Portuguese Air Force Band conducted by Lt. Col. Elio Luis Salsinha Murcho have been the performers of this emblematic recording for celebrating the 75 anniversary of the Invasion of Normandy.

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The official release of “Esencias 3” Cd recording by “Vert” clarinet quartet will be this evening (19.30 p.m.) in Auditorio Municipal de Música, Carcaixent, Valencia, Spain.

This double album has the compositions Impressions by José Grau Benedito (Valencia), Cantos del mar by Esperanza Zubieta Trives (Santander), Pa que guzte pa tocá by Pere Sanz Alcover (Valencia), Chacona by Santiago Quinto Serna (Alicante), Cuarteto nº1 Op.53 “Trágico” by Javier Pérez Garrido (Murcia), Pasodoble per a quatre by Juan Bta. Meseguer Llopis (Valencia), Molly overture by Rodrigo Buenestado (Madrid) and Promenades suite by Vasco M. N. Pereira (Portugal), all of them commissioned and premiered by “Vert” clarinet quartet.

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TEDx Youth Murcia has recently invited Javier Pérez Garrido for speaking about the power of music. The event will be held at Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Murcia (ESAD) on January, 10th.

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The concert bands Orquesta Juvenil de la Filarmónica Pampilhosense under the direction of Daniel Vieira and Sociedade Filarmónica Lobelhense conducted by Bruno Correia will perform for the first time in Portugal the composition Marcha del Dirirambo composed by Javier Pérez Garrido. The concerts will be held in Pampilhosa and Mangualde, December 20 & 21th.

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José Chafer has started a great Cd recording in Murcia this week. Manu Mellaerts, Slawomir Cichor, Raúl García and Javier Artigas will be playing during some of the recordings as well as the Banda Sinfónica del Conservatorio Superior de Murcia concert band and conductor Luis Pedrón.

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The Biënnale 2014 has already started last weekend in The Netherlands. This event, organized by Kerkrade’s World Music Championship is having concerts by international music ensembles such as German Brass, Calefax or Eburon Quintet, among others. Furthermore, Javier Pérez Garrido has played some concerts and premiered a chamber music composition (Canadians in Valencia from A trip to Spain) with Tudor’s Quintet, a woodwind group formed by European Union Youth Wind Orchestra’s members and supervised by Jan Cober and Maartin Dekkers.