José Ignacio Petit Matías
Born in Miranda de Ebro (Burgos) he started his music studies at age 10 with the Zamora Board for Music Promotion Wind Band (Local Band) in with the then conductor D. Nacor Blanco Toranzo, and later at Zamora Music Conservatory.
He continued his studies specialising in horn and percussion at Salamanca Music Professional Conservatory, Madrid Higher Royal Conservatory, Oviedo Music Higher Conservatory and Salamanca Higher Conservatory, where he graduated as percussion teacher.
He complemented his education attending courses by Juanjo Guillén, Rafa Más, Francisco Díaz, Mirca Ardeleanu.
He has worked with different musical formations such as Salamanca Higher Conservatory Orchestra, Castilla y León Symphonic Orchestra, Madrid Philarmonic Orchestra, as well as different wind bands of Castilla y León Autonomous Community.
As a teacher, he worked from 1993 to1996 at the Board for Music Promotion Wind Band, Valladolid Music Town School, Alba de Tormes Music School (Salamanca), Medina del Campo Music School (Valladolid).
From 1999 to 2000 he worked as a percussion and chamber music teacher at the IV and V courses organised by the Dirección General de la Juventud y Consejería de Educación y Cultura de la Junta de Castilla y León (Castilla y León Youth and Education Departments).
He has a degree in wind band conducting by the Royal School of Music (London). He has studied conducting under Ferrer Ferrán at the Valencia Allegro Musical Studies Centre and under Marcel Van Bree in La Coruña.
He received a scholarship by the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Wind ensembles (WASBE) to attend the Art of Band Conducting and Rehearsing course at Texas Unversity in Austin.
He attends lectures by Jerry Junkin (University of Texas), Michael Haithcock (University of Michigan), Dick Floyd (University of Texas), Rob Carnochan (University of Texas), Bernardo Adam Ferrero and Jan Cober.
He attends lectures by Timothy Reynish, Phillip Scott and Mick Dowrick at the Canford Summer School (England).
In October 2005 he is awarded Best Conductor prize at the XII Intenationa Competition for Symphonic Wind Bands Ostrava (Check Republic).
As a wind band conductor he has been the conductor of the Zamora Board for Music Promotion Wind Band from 1993 to 1996 and of the Zamora Asociación Cultural City Wind Band from October 1996 to April 1999, retaking this same post in December 2001.
Nowadays he combines teaching percussion at Zamora Music Conservatory -which he has been doing since 1996- with his job as Conductor of the Zamora Wind Band.
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