Taller Sonoro is the result of a group of musicians’ longing who back in the year 2000 decided to take their creativeness towards a common goal. From the very beginning the master lines of the project were defined: not only would they ‘play contemporary music’ but they would also do it as an activity from which composers, musicians and audience would enjoy themselves through a fulfilling experience.

The basic lines of Taller Sonoro’s production have always been the collaboration with young composers and also the interpretation of their music from a point of view which combines concepts such as unity and a ‘team approach.’ Both their singular mise-en-scène and the advantage they take from this turn their performances into an experience in which the attention of the listeners is drawn to the players while their music interest is focused on the musical language being spoken.

All this time, the different projects carried out by Taller Sonoro have visited events such as the Contemporary Music Festivals of Seville and Granada, and other important venues like Córdoba, Almería, Santander (‘Menendez Pelayo’ International University), Madrid (Queen Sofia Museum Hall of Music), San Sebastian (Kursaal, Quincena Donostiarra) or the Second Edition of the Contemporary Music Festival of Molina de Segura, Murcia. Activities abroad include the World Saxophone Congress XIII (Minnesota, the USA) and XIV (Ljubljana, Slovenia), also the OPUS 5.1 Festival in Bordeaux –France-as well as ‘Spirals’ Festival at The Invalides Cathedral, Paris. Finally in Germany we can mention our concerts in Frankfurt (Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst) and at the Cervantes Institute of Berlin.

Taller Sonoro also includes a pedagogical activity mainly carried out as the resident group of the ‘Manuel de Falla’ Master Grade in Composition in the City of Cadiz. Here, the main line of work (as said above, the deepest possible collaboration between players and composers) finds its highest expression with the premiere of the pieces of music wrought by the composition pupils of the School of Music. This work is also enrichened with the active attendance and presence, in the same role of resident group, at the International Course of Analysis and Composition, during the years 2004, 2005 and 2006, all of them held at Villafranca del Bierzo, León. These Courses were directed by Cristóbal Halffter and took place as part of the International Festival of Organ in the City of León. More recently, Taller Sonoro has also imparted specific courses dealing with the interpretation of Spanish Contemporary Music and performed concerts about the mentioned subject at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, in Frankfurt (Germany).

As an activity including new technologies, Taller Sonoro edits a trimestral e-magazine as part of their website. This e-magazine shows the work which is being presently done by each player, composer or listener. Articles, research, summaries and all kinds of news about music can also be found there, as well as scores and a space open to everybody who, either directly or indirectly, wishes to be linked to present music and to the personal way in which Taller Sonoro understands this work