Draft:Jose Chafino

José Chafino Mira (Ibi-Spain, 1964), is a Spanish musician, pianist and composer.

Biography
Born in Ibi, Alicante, he studied clarinet with the clarinet musician Benedicto Ripoll Martínez; piano, with Ana Flori at the Oscar Esplá Music Conservatory; and composition, with Javier Darias. He continued his piano studies in the United States, with the pedagogue Peggy Erwin, and experimental composition with the composer Kevin Hiatt. At the New World School of the Arts in Miami, he immersed himself in the study of electronic music and its relationship to cinema. Back in Spain, he permanently joined the Alcoy School of Composition and Creation (ECCA). His work as a composer brought him into contact with Luís de Pablo, Ramón Barce, Cristóbal Halffter, Leonardo Balada, Antón García Abril and Tristan Murail.

In 1993, his first album, El Breve Infinito, was released, a musical work mainly for piano, in which he was accompanied by the only male soprano singer in Spain, José Ramírez Ruíz (also countertenor). It contains 12 songs in which the piano reigns, with songs in Spanish and English performed by José Ramírez Ruiz.

He performs poetic musical works in the book Carta a David Tudor (A Letter to David Tudor), by Javier Darias, in the book tribute to the composer Ángel Cosmos, as well as in the book tribute to John Cage, Oh, Cage. He is the author of the soundtrack for the short film El Columbarium, by Juan José Díaz Cantero, gold medalist at the 9th UNICA International Amateur Film Festival in Duisburg (1995). As a composer of works inspired by the musical tradition of the Valencian region, in 2009 he published a series of music sheet for clarinet and piano.

In 2023, his albums Meditaciones and Meditaciones II were released, each containing twelve songs for solo piano.

Discography

 * 1993 : El Breve Infinito. (sello Ariola)
 * 2023 : Meditaciones (Chafino).
 * 2023 : Meditaciones II