Manuel Jódar Siles
Clarinet Teacher at Conservatorio Superior de Córdoba
Spain

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.