Jorge Grundman started his musical training when he was 12 years old and wrote his first composition being 14. He began his studies in solfeggio, piano and choir at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música of Madrid with Carmen Ledesma and Professor Joaquín Soriano. He has continued his training until these days, taking a Ph.D. in Arts by Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, a master´s degree in Musical Creation and Interpretation at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and Real Conservatorio Superior de Música of Madrid; a degree in Sciences and History of Music at Universidad de la Rioja; a degree in Sound and Image Engineering at Universidad Politécnica of Madrid and a degree in Computer Technologies at the Universidad Pontificia of Comillas. He has also received master classes from Jesús López Cobos and José Luis Temes and conducting master classes from maestro Navarro Lara.
As a musicologist, Grundman has led the diffusion of consonant contemporary music and has premiered in Spain works by Vladimir Martynov, Michael Hurd, Gerald Finzi, Astor Piazzolla, Marjan Mozetich or Giovanni Sollima, among others. He is co-founder of the Non Profit Music Chamber Orchestra, together with the Violinist Ara Malikian. He has collaborated in world premiere recordings of works by Ernesto and Rodolfo Halffter and Julián Bautista with the Orquesta de Extremadura and his conductor Jesús Amigo; as also in the diffusion and rediscovering of the work of Bohemian composer Adalbert Gyrowetz (1763-1850) or late composer Robert Kahn (1865-1951) with the B3 Classic Trio.
Grundman is also Proffesor at the Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería Técnica de Telecomunicación of the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid since 1985, where he teaches subjects related to architectural acoustics, sound systems, sound engineering or sound production in the degree of Sound and Image - Technical Telecommunicating Engineering.
There are near thirty recordings published with his music from 1981 and he have worked on projects in cinema and television, both in Spain and abroad. His works have been performed and broadcasted mainly in the United States, Canada, France, United Kingdom, China, Japan, Brazil and Spain. Grundman has won many awards such as the Narcissus Awards of the United Stated in 2005 and the NAR 2004 as “Best Contemporary Instrumental Album” for his work We are the forthcoming past, take care of it. Also he has received awards from Boston Metro Opera for his monodrams God's Sketches for String Quartet, Soprano and Mallets and Four Sad Seasons Over Madrid for Soprano, Violin, Piano and String Orchestra. His music has been recorded for Warner Music, Chandos Records, Sony Classical, Virgin Records, RCA and other independent record labels, and it is published by Music Sales Classical.
Among the performers, orchestras and conductors of his pieces there are prestigious soloists such as Brodsky Quartet, Ara Malikian, Gili Schwarzman, Torleif Thedèen, Vicente Cueva, Christoph Otto Beyer, Albert Guinovart, Josu Okiñena, Daniel del Pino, Susana Cordón, Jiří Bárta, B3 Classic Trio, the Arbós Trio, Tito García, Eduardo Frías, Iagoba Fanlo; orchestras and ensembles like the Sydney Contemporary Orchestra, Ensemble Kuraia, Catalan Chamber Orchestra, Navarra Symphony Orchestra, The Winchester Orchestra of San José, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ecuador, the Spanish Chamber Orchestra, the Non Profit Music Chamber Orchestra or the Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid; and conductors like Pedro Halffter, Guy Braunstein, Joan Pàmies, Javier Ulises Illán and Víctor Pablo Pérez. His works have been premiered in venues such as the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, the Teatro de la Zarzuela, the Teatros del Canal, the Auditorio Conde Duque, the Auditorio del Palacio de Cibeles, the Catedral de Bilbao, the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the National Theater of Brasilia, the Rathaussal Hall of Wasserburg, the Great Hall of the University of Sydney, the Trinity Cathedral of California, the West Valley College Theater of California, the Foz Palace of Lisbon or the La Dolorosa Church in Quito, to name a few.
In April 2011 Grundman is commissioned by the XVII Festival Internacional de Música of Toledo and writes his sonata for flute and piano called Warhol in Springtime, very successfully premiered at such festival. His sonata for violin and piano, What Inspires Poetry, dedicated to the composer Marjan Mozetich, is broadcasted on many American radio stations, becoming one of the XXI century contemporary Spanish pieces most broadcasted in the United States.
In 2011, the Ukrainian pianist and composer Nikolai Kapustin accepts the dedication of Grundman´s work A Walk across Adolescence for violin, cello and piano. The piece is premiered that same year at Toledo by Daniel del Pino, Roman Patocka and Jirí Bárta and has been recently recorded for Play it Again, last recording by the Arbós Trio.
In 2018 he was commissioned to write an hommage to Primo Levi for to conmemorate the centenary of his birth which will be premiered closing the XXIX International Festival of Sacre Art at Madrid on April, 2019. The work is named Cantata Levi for Violin, Soprano and Chamber Orchestra and is based on Levi's work Se questo è un uomo.
Also, in 2019 and to hommage the 50 anniversary of the inmolation of Jan Palach and Jan Zajíc in Praque, he has writen the work Jan & Jan for Choir and Symphonic Orchestra which will be premiered on May, 2019 at the National Auditorium of Madrid.
Among his latest outstanding works are “A Mortuis Resurgere: The Resurrection of Christ” for Soprano and String Quartet, and the opera “Cinco horas con Mario”, based on the novel of the same title by Miguel Delibes.
In 2016 the radio stations of Chicago, New York, and Hawaii, WFMT, WCNY Classical FM, KHPR/KKUA/KANO respectively, dedicated a two-hour monographic program to the composer.
In 2017, the integral of his piano works is published on the Sony Classical label and performed at Carnegie Hall in New York and his partita written in tribute to the Victims of the Holocaust "Shoah for Solo Violin and Sacred Temple" on the Non Profit Music label.
Finally, in 2018, the XXVIII International Festival of Sacred Art has dedicated two monographic concerts to Grundman: Shoah for Solo Violin and Sacred Temple, which was held on March 9 at the Salón de los Pasos Perdidos of the Congress of Deputies, and on February 17 at the Church of San Millán and San Cayetano took place the absolute premiere of the orchestral version of A Mortuis Resurgere: The Resurrection of Christ for Soprano and Orchestra with the interpretation of Susana Cordón and the Chamber Orchestra of Spain under the baton of Javier Ulises Illán. Also in 2018 the composer have been commissioned by the Community of Madrid to write a tribute to Primo Levi to commemorate the centenary of his birth, which will be premiered at the closing of the XXIX International Festival of Sacred Art in Madrid. The work is called Cantata Levi for violin, soprano and chamber orchestra and is based on Levi's work Si esto es un hombre.
In addition, in 2019 and to remember the 50th anniversary of the immolation of Jan Palach and Jan Zajíc in Prague, Grundman wrote the work Jan & Jan for symphony orchestra and choir that was premiered in May 2019 at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid.
His scores are published internationally by Wise Music Classical and the Non Profit Music Foundation.
