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Rosa García Ascot (8 April 1902, Madrid^[1]^[2] – 2 May 2002, Torrelaguna, Madrid) was a Spanish composer and pianist. She was the only woman in the famed Group of Eight, whose members also included Julián Bautista, Ernesto Halffter and his brother Rodolfo, Juan José Mantecón, Fernando Remacha, Salvador Bacarisse and Jesús Bal y Gay. She married Bal y Gay in 1933. Her more notable compositions include Suite para orquesta (Suite for orchestra), Preludio (Prelude), and the Concierto para piano y orquesta (Concerto for piano and orchestra).^[3]
García Ascot was an exponent of Manuel de Falla's music as a concert pianist and is also considered the latter's last disciple. Before studying with de Falla in Madrid, she was a pupil of Felipe Pedrell and then later with Enrique Granados. She spent 10 years in the early part of her career actively touring as a concert soloist and recitalist. Afterwards, her public concerts were relatively few and always in very special circumstances. She died almost a month after her 100th birthday.

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AGUSTÍN MANUEL MARTÍNEZ
Pianist, composer, teacher and lecturer. He specialized in improvisation and Silver Age's Hispanic Repertoire, like monographic Falla works concerts. He is pioneer in Albéniz and Granados Improvisation's transcriptions, (Boileau editions, also Homenaje a Tomás Bretón) doing their premieres and he has created the first constructivist methodology, Piano creativo -Creative piano- (Rivera editions, two volumes) among other publications, offering courses for teachers about this.

Seven times Honors, he wins two oppositions/competitions, University (Musical Education) and Conservatory (Piano), and obtains Superior Degree with distinction, number one of his promotion, at The Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music. He is first prize at Maestro Serrano Piano Competition, Medal at Concours Musical de France, awarded at Torneo Internazionali di Musica, two times first prize at Wenceslao Benítez Poetry Contest and first prize at Alzira National Poetry Competition (Bromera editions).

His students have been awarded more than thirty times at national and international piano competitions having won the first prize twenty times. He teaches Piano, Accompaniment and Singing Repertoire. He has made recordings for Vihuela Label and various TV channels like TVE (documentary about Rodrigo) or International Antenna3 (Madrid Vía Magna Festival concert broadcasted to America). He has worked, inter alia, with Chapuis, Halffter, Jackson, Rosen (postgraduate), Salvatierra, Sadie, Seiger, Tan, Tieles, Tverskaya and Yerokhin. He has offered concerts with several artists, classic and modern music, as Flynn, Fortea Dúo, Parsax Trío, Rosique and Villagar.

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Great spanish composers: Rosa García Ascot