Antón Roch

His real name is Antonio García Rubio. Although born in Orihuela in 1915 is considered in 1915 is considered Murcia because he has almost always lived in Murcia working as a violinist and later as a composer. His studies began in the Conservatory of Murcia with Mariano Sanz. Later he went to Paris and followed the courses of L'Ecole Normale de Musique and the Institut du Violon with Jorge Enesco. He also attended Nadia Boulanger's classes and other courses with Carol Flesch, a great teacher and author of L'art du violob. He received guidance from Milstein, Prihod and Goldberg, who was concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He lived with Ginette Nevers, who was the First Prize of the Warsaw International Competition. On his return to Murcia he began his activities as a concert performer and teacher at the Murcia Conservatory. During the first years of the postwar period he appears forming a duet with Manuel Massotti Littel and offer concerts by Radio Murcia and in the city itself. He was the founder of the Beethoven Quartet. He began composing belatedly with pieces for violin and later composes suites, concerts, symphonies, works for piano, an octet and ballets. It is influenced by Enesco, Brtók and Prokofiev. Also by Hindemith. In 1964 he won the Málaga Prize with his work Homenaje a Prokofiev, being premiered by the Málaga Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Gutiérrez Lapuente. It is a suite for an imaginary ballet and it is written in a language that uses old and new procedures elaborated with his personal criterion and at the service of a clear melodism. He has also composed a Symphony and a Concerto for string and metal. His piano pieces have been edited by Unión Musical Española and have been incorporated into the curricula of several countries. He died in 1987.

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