Antonio Gandía

ANTONIO GANDÍA Currently considered one of the best young Spanish singers. He starts his musical studies in his town Crevillente (Alicante) in 1995 and in 1996 is accepted in the Valencia’s Conservatory “Joaquin Rodrigo”. In 1998, Gandía got into “Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía”, in the Singing’s Cathedra Fundación Ramón Areces conducted by Alfredo Kraus, attending to a masterclass of Renata Scotto, Ileana Cotrubas y Elena Obraztsova. In 1999, inside of the activities as a pupil of this school, he sang in the Lázaro Galdiano Museum and in the Auditorio Nacional of Music of Madrid. The same year he won the 1st prize in the last edition of the Alfredo Kraus International Singing Competition, which was conducted by Enrique García Asensio in the Winners competitions gala in RTVE, with