Jorge Grundman

Jorge Grundman is a New Age and Classical composer born in 1961 in Madrid, Spain. He has the only target to write emotive music to collect funds for humanitarian causes.

• After composing initial pieces for a school contest at age 14, he later studied at the Royal Advanced Conservatory of Music in Madrid. His piano training was with Carmen Ledesma, while music theory (sol-fa) and choral group instruction came under the professorship of Joaquin Soriano. This classical training laid the foundation for the rest of Grundman?s musical career. By age 17, he had become a key member of power pop groups ETC and Fahrenheit 451, as both a singer and a keyboardist. Shortly thereafter, Fahrenheit 451 was recognized as one of the most promising of the bands critics called "Movida Madrilena". Together with other famous touring bands -- Nacha Pop, Secretos, Mama, Alaska y Los Pegamoides, Pistones and others -- they launched the most celebrated music show of that time in Madrid, called ?The Spring Concert at the Architectural School in Madrid.? Grundman subsequently recorded with Fahrenheit 451 for independent labels, and collaborated with other bands like Pistones and Episodio.

• In 1980, he joined Fahrenheit 451's drummer Oscar Bergon and renowned film composer Mario de Benito to form the first power pop group called Tr?pico de C?ncer; they recorded the notable album "Detr?s del Espejo" for Virgin Records in Spain. Grundman sang, played keyboard and composed some of the tracks on the album, which was recorded and mixed at Air Studios in London by Nigel Walker. However, by the time the single "Yo lo Intentaria una Vez Mas" went to #1 on Spain's FM radio playlists, Grundman had already exited the band seeking new directions and freedom from the major label marketing machine. Distancing himself from the pop music industry, he began his University teaching career in 1985 and started to privately compose music at home. While there were some dark periods during Grundman's transition to composing more personally-meaningful music, they were lifted by moments of light and inspiration. First, in the joyous birth of his first daughters, Sara and Rebeca, and, second, in famed New Age radio DJ Ramon Trecet's decision to air Grundman's new compositions despite the fact that they were simply on tape and not professionally formatted. While continuing to teach, he composed the celebrated "Los Hijos del Frio" ("The Sons of the Cold") which is acclaimed as one of the most famous electronic tunes of MP3.com, where it was published in January 2001.

• It was #1 in the New Age charts 27 times, remaining in the Top 40 for six months alongside other leading New Age artists like Enya and Suzanne Ciani. Grundman resides in Spain with his family, continuing to compose music and teach at the university. He founded Non Profit Music to facilitate donating proceeds from his music sales to Doctors Without Borders in Spain. In June 2004, the U.S. version of his first solo album, "We Are the Forthcoming Past, Take Care of It" was released through Los Angeles-based Only New Age Music with and incredible success for an unknown artist.

• It raised the TOP 4 in the New Age artists at USA radio charts and was multiwarded with the nomination of the Best Contemporary Instrumental Album of 2004 by the New Age Reporter Awards and as a Finalist of the 2005 Narcissus Award as The Best in Body, Mind and Spirit.

• His latest project?is the composition of Three String Trios with three movements each one to be included in the book "With the Nine Senses" (Con los nueve sentidos) to collect funds for Medicus Mundi in Spain.The next album of Grundman, which has no title still, will be released during 2006 in USA.