A Gran Canaria-born composer and music teacher whose choral, symphonic and symphonic-choral work occupies a central place in contemporary Canarian music.
Juan José Falcón Sanabria (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1936-2015) was a composer and music teacher, recipient of the 1994 Canary Islands Fine Arts and Performance Prize.
Open biographyThe RACBA identifies him as a composer and music teacher, with creative activity from the second half of the 1950s. His career developed along three complementary lines: teaching, choral direction and composition. His official archive summarises a career sustained by teaching, creation and the founding of choirs.
In 1994, the Government of the Canary Islands described him as a composer whose originality was giving universal dimension to Canarian musical creation. His relevance is also measured by the choirs he founded, his teaching in Las Palmas and a catalogue that his official website counts at more than seventy titles.
His compositional language begins in tonality, passes through atonality and dodecaphonism and ends up exploring rhythmic and sonic textures. The sources link him to choral, chamber, symphonic and symphonic-choral music, with an expressionist bias and strong attention to Canarian nature.
This profile gathers a selective set of representative works: Capricho Canario, Poema Coral del Atlántico, Agáldar, Elan, Sinfonía Urbana, Celebración del sonido, Itálica, Helios, Obertura Hespérides and La hija del cielo.
His legacy is that of a composer who expanded Canarian music toward a symphonic and choral horizon with international reach, with works performed, recorded and taught from the Canaries outward.
His Canarian connection runs through Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the conservatory, the university, the choirs he founded and music created for civic and island milestones.
Obra temprana del compositor, citada en su biografía oficial como parte de su arranque creativo.
Estrenada en 1973, figura entre las obras emblemáticas del catálogo del compositor.
Obra sinfónica de referencia dentro de su catálogo y de su proyección pública.
La interpretación en el Auditorio Nacional de Madrid consolidó la recepción pública de su obra.
Obra sinfónica encargada para la inauguración del Auditorio Alfredo Kraus.
Ópera sinfónico-coral de gran formato que inauguró la temporada 2007/2008 del Teatro Pérez Galdós.
Nace en Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Comienza sus estudios de armonía, contrapunto y fuga con José Moya.
Su biografía oficial sitúa en este año el arranque de su actividad compositiva documentada.
Funda la Coral Alba Vox en el Instituto Isabel de España.
Recibe el Premio Canarias de Bellas Artes e Interpretación.
Estreno de la ópera sinfónico-coral que inauguró la temporada 2007/2008 del Teatro Pérez Galdós.
El Gobierno de Canarias lamenta su muerte y subraya su legado musical.
