July 2012 Meet the composer with an interview and the premiere of my Rhyme XXIII for soprano and piano at Programa de Mano on spanish TVE. Susana Cordón, soprano and Daniel del Pino, piano, plays this lied after Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. if you wish access only to this section, please scroll up to minute 11:40. June 2012 View now online God's Sketches for String Quartet, Soprano and Mallets and Surviving a Son's Suicide for String Quartet with Brodsky Quartet, Susana Cordón and Jaime Fernández Soriano in the premiere at National Auditorium of Madrid, broadcasted by spanish TVE at Los Conciertos de La 2.
April 2012 Featured on the cover of Fanfare Magazine. Read an exclusive interview and the review of my forthcoming work God's Sketches with Brodsky Quartet, Susana Cordón and Jaime Fernández Soriano. In addition the album has been recently reviewed by SA-CD with five stars and Positive-Feedback magazine. Also it is featured on the blog of New York Classical Contemporary Classical Comunity Sequenza21. Many thanks to all of them for spreading my humble work. Here are some of the comments you can find "...grave and powerful emotional content...", "...he has the gift of empathy and a moving way of expressing this musically...", "...I encourage music lovers to investigate this album....", "...pizzicato polyrhythms at a technically virtuosic pace and tight ensemble by the Brodsky, with interpolated bowed themes of great lyrical beauty...", "...From a listening standpoint I actually find Jorge Grundman's music quite new, exciting and unique...", "...The music is sad, slow and lyrical....", "...which to my ears is pure genius...", "...I was blown away by a new CD that drifted in the other day called God’s Sketches by the Brodsky Quartet featuring the work of the Spanish “music writer” Jorge Grundman....", "...somewhat reminiscent of Gavin Bryars’s orchestrations. I can see why you like it and hope to hear more of this piece..." Finally, ArkivMusic recommeds the SACD! February 2012
Performed by Trío Arbós and released by Non Profit Music Foundation the album "Play It Again" is now available worldwide. Together with works by Kenji Bunch, Marjan Mozetich, Elena Kats-Chernin, Paul Schoenfield and Chick Corea is included my latest work for piano trio named "A Walk across Adolescence". This work is dedicated to ukranian composer Nikolai Kapustin and accepted by him: "...Now I know three of your works and all of them are so beautiful for my ears that now I am dreaming to write something even if distantly resembling...thank you very very much for your invaluable gift!..."
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