Ua koho ka Royal Academy of Fine Arts o San Fernando i ka mea haku mele ʻo José Luis Turina i mea hoʻonaʻauao helu no ka ʻāpana Mele, ma ka hālāwai i mālama ʻia i nehinei, Pōʻakahi, Malaki 28. Ua noi ʻia kāna moho e ka mea hoʻokani piano ʻo Joaquín Soriano, ka mea hoʻokele kiʻiʻoniʻoni a me ka mea kākau kiʻi ʻo Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón a me ke mele mele ʻo José Luis García del Busto, nāna i heluhelu i ka 'laudatio'.
Ua aʻo ʻia ʻo José Luis Turina (Madrid, 1952) ma nā conservatories ʻo Barcelona a me Madrid, e aʻo ana i ka violin, piano, harpsichord, orchestra conducting and composition, a me nā mea ʻē aʻe. Ma 1979 ua loaʻa iā ia kahi haʻawina mai ke Kulanui o Sepania ma Roma, e hāʻawi ana iā ia i ka manawa e aʻo ai i nā papa hoʻomaikaʻi haku mele i aʻo ʻia e Franco Donatoni.
I loko o kāna hoʻokumu koʻikoʻi, ma waena o nā mea ʻē aʻe, ʻo José Olmedo - kumu kumu hoʻokani pila - a me Salvatore Sciarrino.
ʻO ka hāʻawi ʻia ʻana o ka IV International Prize for Musical Composition Reina Sofía (1986), no kāna hana ambisious no ka orchestra Ocnos, i hoʻokumu ʻia ma nā mele a Luis Cernuda, he mea hoʻoikaika i kāna ʻoihana. He limahana hana, ua loaʻa iā ia nā komisina mau mai nā hui aupuni a me nā hui honua.
Ua hoʻomohala ʻo José Luis Turina i kahi hana didactic maikaʻi mai ka puni o ke aʻo ʻana a me ka hoʻokele. He kaukaʻi ʻo ia ma nā conservatories o Cuenca a me Madrid a ma ke Kula ʻo Reina Sofía o Music, ua aʻo i nā papa a me nā hālāwai kūkā ma Sepania - International Festival of Contemporary Music of Alicante, School of Advanced Musical Studies of Santiago de Compostela, etc.– a ma nā kikowaena like ʻole ma ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa e like me Manhattan School of Music a i ʻole ke Kulanui ʻo Colgate.
Ua paʻa ʻo ia i ka hoʻomaikaʻi ʻana i ke ʻano o ke aʻo ʻana i nā mele, ua lawelawe ʻo ia ma ke ʻano he kākāʻōlelo ʻenehana i ka Ministry of Music and Performing Arts i loko o ke kahua o ka LOGSE. Mai 2001 a 2020 ʻo ia ka luna hoʻokele no ka National Youth Orchestra o Sepania a, ma hope, pelekikena o ka Spanish Association of Young Creators. He lālā ʻo ia no ka ʻaha mele ʻo Inaem a me ka ʻaha kūkā noʻeau o ka National Music Auditorium.
Noho pū ka moʻomeheu a me ke ʻano hou i ka ʻōlelo mele o Turina, ʻo ia kekahi o nā loea maikaʻi loa i nā mele Spanish o kēia wā.
He kanaka hoʻonaʻauao kūpono ʻo ia o ka Academy of Fine Arts Santa Isabel o Hungary (Seville) a me kā mākou Lede o Angustias (Granada). Ua ʻike ʻia kāna talena a me kāna hoʻolaʻa ʻana me nā makana e like me ka National Music Prize mai ka Ministry of Education and Culture (1996) a i ʻole ke Gold Medal mai ka Madrid Royal Conservatory of Music (2019).
