Salvador Chuliá Hernández

Salvador Chuliá
Colour publicity shot of an elderly, unsmiling Chuliá with receding hair
Chuliá c. 2015
Born(1944-05-19)19 May 1944
Catarroja, Valencia, Spain
Died5 August 2025(2025-08-05) (aged 81)
Occupations
  • Conductor
  • Composer
  • Academic teacher
  • Conservatoire director
  • Writer
Organizations
SpouseMaría del Carmen
Children3

Salvador Chuliá Hernández (19 May 1944 – 5 August 2025) was a Spanish composer and conductor. He conducted several bands, composed more than 400 works and served as professor and later director of the Conservatorio Municipal "José Iturbi" de Valencia from 1978 to 2014. He composed music for orchestra and wind bands, such as Díptico sinfónico and Tríptico elegíaco for a percussionist and orchestra, also chamber music and vocal music. He authored textbooks about harmony and composition.

Life and career

Chuliá was born in Catarroja, Valencia, on 19 May 1944.[1] He received initial musical instructions from his uncle, Francisco Chuliá, who was a guitar maker and lute player.[2] He attended the Sociedad Musical L'Artesana de Catarroja. He then studied saxophone, piano, composition and conducting at the Conservatorio de Valencia and the Conservatorio de Murcia, achieving advanced degrees in saxophone, composition and orchestral conducting.[1]

Chuliá was director of the bands of Benifayó, of the Unión Artística Musical de Navajas, the group La Artesana of Catarroja and of the Academia General del Aire in San Javier.[1] He founded and conducted the Grupo de Metales Catedralicios de Valencia,[3] who premiered many of his compositions.[1] He conducted as a guest in halls including the Palau de la Música de València, the Teatro Principal and the Ateneo Mercantil de Valencia, the Auditorio y Palacio de Congresos de Castellón and the Teatro Principal in Alicante, the Teatro Guimerá of Tenerife, the Teatro Fernán Gómez, the Teatro Español and the Teatro Monumental in Madrid, stages in Timmendorfer Strand and Eutin in Germany, and the Salle Gaveau in París.[4]

Chuliá composed more than 400 musical works[5] for orchestra, bands and vocal ensembles. Some of his works have become compulsory pieces at competitions such as Ciudad de Torrevieja in 1983, Onda in 1981, Joan Senent Ibáñez in 1977, Villa de Almussafes and Juegos Florales de Paterna in 1974, and some used at the Concurso Internacional de Trompeta in Paris and the Habanera y Canción Polifónica in Torrevieja.[1][4]

Chuliá taught as professor of harmony and composition at the Conservatorio de Valencia from 1978,[4] and served as its director from 1992 to his retirement in 2014,[3] inspiring generations of students. One of the halls at the Conservatorio is named Sala Salvador Chuliá in honour of him.[6] He authored several texts of music instruction. He was a founding member of the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias de la Música de España. He was also president of the Asociación de Compositores Sinfónicos Valencianos (COSICOVA) from 1995 to 2005.[6][1] He was awarded the 2009 Llíria at the Festival de Bandas.[7] He received the award Lira de Oro from the Sociedad Musical Poblados Marítimos in Valencia in 2010.[8] In 2012 he was elected to the Real Academia de Cultura Valenciana.[7]

Personal life

Chuliá was married to María del Carmen; they had three sons who all became musicians.[2][3]

Chuliá died on 5 August 2025, aged 81.[3][6]

Works

Orchestral

  • Juan Pablo II for trumpet and orchestra (2011)[5]
  • Al maestro Serrano: gran fantasía sinfónica (1974)[9]
  • Concerto pour Maurice André (1995), for trumpet and orchestra[3][10]
  • Díptico sinfónico (1987), for band[9]
  • Fantasía concertante for trumpet and orchestra (2006), for Concours de Trompette Maurice André[10]
  • Naskigo: estampa musical for orchestra (1994)[10]
  • Sinfonía Mediterránea (2008), dedicated to Salvador Giner Vidal[3]
  • Tríptico elegíaco for a percussionist and orchestra (1990), dedicated to his son Salvador[3][10]

Chamber music

  • Adagio sentimental for oboe and piano (1974)[10]
  • Amoretes for oboe and piano (1982)[10]
  • Conciertos para trompeta y órgano, studies, Jugueteando (2012); Els valencians (2014), Díptic per a Joaquín y Ernesto (2014), Breve fantasía, DoMiSi, Mosaico valenciano (2014), Introducción y polca (1992), Els educandos[10]
  • Euterpe for piano (1982)[10]
  • Festival for trumpet and organ (1988)[10]
  • Homenaje a José Iturbi, fantasia for piano (1995)
  • Homenaje a mi padre for ensemble (2014)[10]
  • Moviments per a piano (1990)[10]

Vocal music

  • Bautismos que no bautizan (1993)[9]
  • Duerme mi niño (Canción de cuna) for soprano and piano (1993)[10]
  • Petenera andaluza, after a poem by Federico García Lorca[10]

Works for wind band

  • Episodios sinfónicos (1988)[9]
    • Canción de cuna
    • Destellos
    • Jota
  • Espíritu valenciano, symponic suite (1977)[10]
  • Moviments cíclics per a banda (1981)[9][10]
  • Sinfonía Valentina (2005), for Certámen Internacional de Valencia[9]
  • Suite migratoria (2008), for the Concurso de bandas de música de la Comunidad Valenciana de Cheste[9][10]
  • Tres secuencias sinfónicas (2005), for the Concurso de bandas de música de la Comunidad Valenciana, Cheste 2005[9][10]

Writings

  • Apuntes de Armonía. Vol. Primera parte: teoría y práctica (2nd ed.). Valencia: Piles. 2003. ISBN 978-8-49-502662-0.
  • Apuntes de Armonía. Vol. Segunda parte: teoría y práctica. Valencia: Piles. 2002. ISBN 978-8-49-502667-5.
  • Apuntes de Armonía. Vol. Tercera parte: teoría y práctica. Valencia: Piles. 2006. ISBN 978-84-95026-92-7.
  • Lecturas. Repentización y transposición - 125 títulos - teoría y práctica. Valencia: Piles. 1991. ISBN 978-84-17195-67-0. OCLC 435943499.
  • Chuliá Hernández, Salvador (1999). La música de cámara y su entorno. Vol. LXIV. Annals de la Real Acadèmia de Cultura Valenciana. pp. 123–130. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  • Pons Server, Juan; Chuliá, Salvador; Climent Barber, Josep; Climent, José; Roncero, Vicente (2013). Solfeo manuscrito. Valencia: Piles. ISBN 978-8-48-854869-6. OCLC 871801150.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Jurado: Salvador Chuliá Hernández". cibm-valencia.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 August 2025.
  2. ^ a b Seco, Aurelio M. (1 September 2011). "Salvador Chuliá: "No es necesario viajar fuera de España para formarse musicalmente"". codalario.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 August 2025.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Roca, Nacho (6 August 2025). "Muere Salvador Chuliá, Hijo Predilecto de Catarroja y referente de la música valenciana". Las Provincias (in Spanish). Catarroja. Retrieved 6 August 2025.
  4. ^ a b c "Salvador Chuliá Hernández 1944-2025". filosofiadelamusica.es (in Spanish). 2025. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
  5. ^ a b Ros, Mónica (21 October 2011). "Juan Pablo II, en tres movimientos". Levante (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 August 2025.
  6. ^ a b c "Fallece el compositor valenciano Salvador Chuliá a los 81 años". Actualidad Valencia (in Spanish). 6 August 2025. Retrieved 6 August 2025.
  7. ^ a b "Salvador Chuliá Hernández". Real Academia de Cultura Valenciana (in Spanish). 4 December 2013. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
  8. ^ "Poblados Marítimos homenajea a Salvador Chuliá". Federación de Sociedades Musicales de la Comunidad Valenciana (in Spanish). 18 May 2010. Archived from the original on 28 January 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2025.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h "Salvador Chuliá Hernández". musicafestera.com (in Spanish). 2025. Retrieved 14 August 2025.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "Libros y Partituras / Chuliá, Salvador". trinomusic.com (in Spanish). 2025. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
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