ABOUT David Valdés
SESSION TITLE: Histoire du Soldat Revisited: The Original Concept.
David Valdés studied at The Royal Academy of Music in London, where he gained his Postgraduate Diploma in Performance and his LRAM. He was awarded the Princedom of Asturias Government Scholarship three times in a row, was a finalist at the International Keyboard Percussion Competition sponsored by the Yamaha Foundation of Europe, and was runner-up for the Deutsche Bank Pyramid Awards.
David plays regularly with symphony orchestras and early music ensembles in Spain, Portugal, France, Poland, Russia, Germany and the UK. He has translated into Spanish Method of Movement for Marimba (L. H. Stevens) and www.percorch.com. He has published a new critical edition of the percussion part of Histoire du Soldat using the original manuscript and sketches as the main sources. David has also published several early 19th-century works for tambourine and fortepiano, together with manuals on historical tambourine techniques. He is the founding member of Les Musiciens Domestiques duo.
