The Malaga violinist and conductor José Manuel Gil de Gálvez, who recently performed a concert to celebrate Columbus Day with the support of the Obra Cultural de la Fundación Universitaria Iberoamericana (FUNIBER) and the Universidad Europea del Atlántico (UNEATLANTICO), has been appointed as a full member of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), in recognition of his merits and work.
The RSA is a long-standing and classic London society founded in 1754, to which famous people such as Charles Dickens, Benjamin Franklin, Stephen Hawking, Karl Marx, Adam Smith, Marie Curie, Nelson Mandela and David Attenborough, among others, have belonged. ‘We provide platforms, opportunities and networks for all those who share our vision to connect, participate, share ideas and experience’ they state on their website.
Gil de Gálvez is a multifaceted artist who approaches music from different perspectives: performance, pedagogy, dissemination, management and research, with the violin, his instrument, and orchestral conducting as the common thread. Since 1996 he has been First Violin and leader of the prestigious Spanish string orchestra Concerto Málaga.
As a conductor, he made his debut at the Teatro Nacional de El Salvador and achieved great success conducting the Orquesta Filarmónica Nacional de Venezuela at the Teatro Teresa Carreño in Caracas.
As a researcher and disseminator, he is a member of the Editorial Board of the magazine Descubrir la Historia, of the Spanish Society of Musicology and a regular contributor to the specialised magazine Melómano and the newspaper La Opinión de Málaga, with countless publications, both scientific and dissemination, mainly aimed at the appreciation of music of Hispanic roots and inspiration.
The artist conducted the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de El Salvador to commemorate the Spanish National Day in two concerts held on 11 and 13 October, organised by the Obra Cultural de la Fundación Universitaria Iberoamericana (FUNIBER) and the Universidad Europea del Atlántico (UNEATLANTICO), the Ministry of Culture of El Salvador, the Spanish Embassy and the Fundación Hispania Música.
