Manuel Jódar Siles

Clarinet Teacher at Conservatorio Superior de Córdoba

Spain

Légère has been a discovery, my first skepticism dissapeared as soon as I tried them enough time to fit my embouchure, once I adapted, the feeling of quantity and quality of sound were pretty much better than before and there was no turning back. I wish I had found them before.
Excellent product and very kind staff.

He was born in Canena, Spain. He began with Professor Antonio Ferrús in Conservatorio Profesional de Jaén, afterwards completed Higher Degree in Real Conservatorio de Música de Madrid with also Professor Justo Sanz and Jose Luis Estellés. Finally he knew his Maestro Josep Fuster, with which completed Master in Classical and Contemporary Performance at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) in Barcelona. He attended to many Master class of Historical Clarinet Courses with Erich Hoeprich and Carles Riera too. On the other hand, he is titled in Education and New Technologies from the Distance University of Madrid (UDIMA)

He was member of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Spain (OFE), Youth Orchestra of Andalusia (OJA), Symphony Orchestra of RR.CC. from Madrid and collaborated with Orquesta de Córdoba.
<!--more-->
In Chamber Music he has played with Cordoba Wind Quintet and Averroes String Quartet with which he has performed much repertoire for clarinet and string quartet. He has performed plenty of recitals a duo with pianist in Spain, Portugal, Estonia, Bulgaria, Italy and Belgium. It is remarkable too the work “Purple Pieces” for solo clarinet , by Cordovan composer Santiago Baéz which was dedicated to him.

As a soloist, he won 2nd National Clarinet Award of the "National Clarinet Competition of Cullera" (Valencia) and performed Op. 34 by Carl M. von Weber with the CSM Chamber Orchestra "Andrés de Vandelvira ".
He has taught courses as a guest in Spain, Academy of Music and Theater in Tallinn (Estonia), Istituto Musicale Vincenzo Bellini in Catania (Italy), Academy of Dance and Music in Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Royal Conservatoire in Brussels (Belgium), and currently is Director of most important summer course of clarinet "Curso de Clarinete Villa de Canena" and "National Competition of Clarinet Backun Spain".
He was Professor in Conservatorio Superior de Sevilla, Conservatorio Superior de Málaga and currently in Conservatorio Superior de Córdoba.