Sara Ramos Contioso

Composer

Born in Barcelona in 1974, Sara Ramos Contioso is a Spanish composer, Professor of Composition at Seville Conservatory, and researcher at Granada University. Her academic career is based on a solid training background which was developed with Manuel Castillo in Seville, Willem Dagstra in the Conservatori Liceu in Barcelona, and the musicologists Antonio Martín Moreno and Francisco Giménez in Granada. She holds academic awards in Composition and Music History (1998), a pre-doctoral stay at the Humboldt University of Berlin (2007) under the tutelage of Prof. Danuser and the Extraordinary Doctorate Award (2019) with an international thesis on the study of The Spanish requiem in the twentieth century.

As a composer, Sara has an extensive catalogue and her music is frequently performed in concert halls throughout Spain. She is focused on the composition of religious music and the study of its symbolic and expressive possibilities with examples as the wind quintet Deus audit me quotidie, the requiem Cants d’Absencia (commissioned by Barcelona City Council in 2023 and premiered in 2024), two parables for solo instruments (trombone, organ) and the commission of a string quartet with a mystical nature (commissioned by the Haas Library, UPF Barcelona in 2024).

Sara is an active member of the Society of Music Analysis in London, and the director of the Hebdomada Sancta congress in Seville which is focused in the repertoire of processional music in Andalusian Holy Week.

More information about Sara can be found at sararamoscontioso.com