Luis María González began Bachelor’s degree in Music
Performance at the “Rafael Orozco” Superior Conservatory of
Music in Cordova and finished his studies at the Superior
Conservatory of Music in Malaga with honors in the Álvaro Ariza’s
class. He was then admitted to begin his Master’s studies in Music,
Performance and Heritage at the Paris-Saclay University and the
Versailles Conservatory (CRR-VGP) in the class of Vincent David,
again finishing with honors. In June 2021, he completed his
advanced diploma at the CRR of Versailles in the class of Nicolas
Arsenijevic. With his saxophone quartet Gaman Ensemble, he
finished his Master’s degree in Chamber Music at the CNSMDP
with honors in David Walter’s class in 2022. Recently, he
successfully recorded his first album with this same quartet at the
Manuel de Falla auditorium in Granada, Spain, under the label IBS
Classical.

He has won ten first prizes in different international competitions and has performed in
some of the most important concert halls and festivals in the world, including the Weill Recital
Hall of the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Salle Cortot and the National Center of Art and
Culture Georges-Pompidou of Paris, or the Radio-France Festival in Montpellier. His profound
interest in music expands to all aspects musical production, from composition to performance;
additionally, he has had the honor of premiering works dedicated to him by the composers: Félix
Ibarrondo, Seducing (2019), Maël Bailly, De un umbral vacante al otro (2020), Orlando Bass,
GSTK (2022) and in terra (2023), and David Soley, Laberinto VIIb (2023).
Throughout his career, he has been awarded with several scholarships by different
organizations to carry out different projects; he studied at the Institut Supérieur des Arts de
Toulouse with Philippe Lecocq and Hugo Schmitt. Today, the Foundations Marie Fournier,
Adami, Legs Jabès, Daniel and Nina Carasso, PSL University and the France Foundation,
actively support his artistic career. Furthermore, Luis María plays a H. Selmer S. II Jubilée
baritone saxophone funded by the Mécénat Musical Société Générale and the Meyer Foundation.
Beyond his love for music, he is fascinated by the human brain. Currently enrolled as a
doctoral student at the University of Granada, he is researching the fields of neuropsychology and
musicology. He is professionally engaged with highly sensitive persons (HSP), is a member of
the Spanish Association of the Professionals of the High Sensitivity (APAS), and an adherent of
Françoise Dorocq’s DOLCE pedagogy for teaching children, adolescents, and adults with
disabilities. In 2023, he published a book on the practice of interpretation as a creative process in
the saxophone repertoire at Dykinson publishing house (Q1 of the SPI). Luis María is currently
enrolled in a Master’s degree of Saxophone Pedagogy at the CNSMDP.
Since 2022, Luis María has been a professor of Saxophone at the Conservatoire à
Rayonnement Départemental Marcel Dupré of Paris. He is also a brand artist for Henri Selmer
Paris saxophones, as well as for JLV Sound Paris saxophone ligatures, and he holds the position
of solo saxophonist in the Almería Symphonic Orchestra (OCAL) in Andalusia.