Miquel À. Múrcia (Ontinyent, Valencia 1982) has been awarded the Foundation for Iberian Music’s Composer’s Commission 2024. His Obra per a piano finds inspiration in the immigration from Valencia, Spain, to New York, in the early twentieth century. He discusses his sources in the following magazine article.

Miquel Àngel Murcia, el valenciano que ha ‘emigrado’ a Nueva York a través de la música _ Valencia Plaza

Miquel Àngel Múrcia’s background includes a a PhD in History. Considered a “great exponent of the electroacoustic in Europe” thanks to his enormous and incipient electroacoustic music, audiovisual, chamber music, and ensemble premieres in recent years in several European countries. He has received commissions from many countries and, among his many works premiered the most outstanding are the ones for the “Magritte Museum” in Belgium during the period 2009–2010. He has also premiered at many leading festivals, such as the SIMA FountCourt (France, Dijon), in 2011 and at the “Talent Festival” part of the prestigious Berlinale (Berlin). He has actively taken part in the 17th, 18th and 19th (2010-2012) “Meeting Point International Festivals” and his music has been included in the regular program of Phonos Barcelona, and Carnegie Ensemble Contemporary (USA 2012). Moreover, he is working to reissue a critical study of the romantic musical composer Josep Melcior Gomis. He is part of the Spanish Association of Electronic Music.