TERESA CATALAN (1951). Born in Pamplona (Navarra), she completed her musical studies at the “Pablo Sarasate” Conservatory in that city, studying under professors such as Fernando Remacha, Luis Morondo, Juan Eraso, Luis Taberna, and Pilar Bayona, among others. She culminated her composition training with courses in Sociology and Musical Aesthetics by Ramón Barce, and Contemporary Composition Techniques by Agustín González Acilu.

She holds a Master’s degree in Aesthetics and Musical Creation and a PhD in Philosophy of Art from the University of Valencia. She also earned a diploma in composition from the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena (Italy) under Franco Donatoni (1988).

Her works are regularly performed in various countries across Europe and the Americas. She has received numerous commissions from major institutions, performers, and orchestras, including the Navarra Symphony Orchestra, the Basque National Orchestra (Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi), the National Orchestra and Chorus of Spain, the City of Heidelberg, the Pamplona Chamber Choir, the Ministry of Culture, the Associazione Amici della Musica de Anghiari (Arezzo, Italy), the Pamplona City Council, Hungarian Radio (Budapest), etc.

She is the author of several treatises and numerous articles on musical technique and sociology, and has published books, records, and scores in Spain, Hungary, and Germany.

Highly active in the promotion and dissemination of music, she has organized various courses, encounters, lectures, concerts, and festivals (such as the Veruela Courses, the Pamplona 82 Encounters, the Navarra Festivals, and the Basque New Music Festivals, among others). She currently serves on the Social Council of the Public University of Navarra.

She is an elected full member of JAKIUNDE, the Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters of the Basque Country, Navarra, and Aquitaine.

By public examination, she achieved the rank of Professor of Composition at the Royal Higher Conservatory of Music of Madrid (RCSMM), where she has been named Professor Emerita. She also collaborates with the doctoral program “Music and its Science and Technology,” joint run by the RCSMM and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

She has received numerous awards, including: the European Year of Music Prize (1985), the National Music Prize (2017), the Career Achievement Award from the “Pablo Sarasate” Conservatory (2019), the Prince of Viana Culture Prize (2021), the Eusko Ikaskuntza Prize for Humanities, Culture, Arts and Social Sciences (2022), the “Periodistas de Navarra” (Navarra Journalists) Prize (2022), the Fernando Remacha Honorary Prize (2023), and the Euskadi Musika Bulegoa Sariak Prize (2023).

Furthermore, she has been awarded the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Civil Merit (2011), the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts (2021), the Gold Medal of the Royal Higher Conservatory of Music of Madrid (2023), and the Emiliana de Zubeldía Medal in Hermosillo (Mexico) in 2026.