Kua tohua e te Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando te kaitito waiata a José Luis Turina hei tohunga mo te wahanga Waiata, i roto i te huihuinga i tu inanahi, Mane, Maehe 28. Ko te kaiwhakatangitangi piana a Joaquín Soriano i tono, ko te kaiwhakahaere kiriata me te kaituhi a Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón me te tohunga puoro a José Luis García del Busto, nana i panui te 'laudatio'.
I whakangungua a José Luis Turina (Madrid, 1952) i te whare tiaki o Barcelona me Madrid, i ako i te violin, piano, harpsichord, orchestra conducting and composition, me etahi atu. I te tau 1979 i whakawhiwhia ia ki te karahipi mai i te Academy of Spain i Roma, i whai waahi ki te ako i nga karaehe whakapai titonga i whakaakona e Franco Donatoni.
I roto i tana hanganga whai mana, me etahi atu, ko José Olmedo -kaiako whakahiato - me Salvatore Sciarrino.
Ko te whakawhiwhinga o te IV International Prize for Musical Composition Reina Sofía (1986), mo ana mahi whakahirahira mo te orchestra Ocnos, i ahu mai i nga rotarota a Luis Cernuda, i whakanui i tana mahi. He kaimahi whai hua, kua whakawhiwhia ia ki nga komihana mai i nga umanga o te motu me te ao.
Kua whakawhanakehia e José Luis Turina he mahi whakamihi mai i te taiao o te whakaako me te whakahaere. He ahorangi ia i nga whare tiaki o Cuenca me Madrid me te Reina Sofía School of Music, i whakaako i nga akoranga me nga huihuinga i Spain - International Festival of Contemporary Music of Alicante, School of Advanced Musical Studies of Santiago de Compostela, etc.– me nga pokapū rereke i te United States penei i te Manhattan School of Music me te Whare Wananga o Colgate.
I whakapau kaha ia ki te whakapai ake i nga tikanga o te whakaako waiata, i mahi ia hei kaitohutohu hangarau mo te Manatu Waiata me nga Toi Toi i roto i te anga o te LOGSE. Mai i te tau 2001 ki te 2020 he kaiwhakahaere toi ia mo te National Youth Orchestra of Spain, a, i muri mai, he perehitini o te Spanish Association of Young Creators. Kua noho ia hei mema mo te kaunihera waiata Inaem me te kaunihera toi o te National Music Auditorium.
Ko nga tikanga me te ao hou e noho tahi ana i roto i te reo puoro o Turina, ko ia tetahi o nga tino tohunga mo nga puoro Spanish o naianei.
He tohunga mohio ia mo te Academy of Fine Arts Santa Isabel o Hungary (Seville) me to Our Lady of Angustias (Granada). Ko ona pukenga me tana ngakau nui kua whakawhiwhia ki nga tohu penei i te National Music Prize mai i te Manatu o te Matauranga me te Ahurea (1996) me te Metara Koura mai i te Madrid Royal Conservatory of Music (2019).
