His passion for music and composition flourished during his teens, and after his music school professor played Peer Gynt Suite by Edward Grieg in class. Born in 2001 in Barcelona, Manuel Torralba studied piano privately with Pilar Lopez-Comajuncosas and music theory by himself at home, which led to his acceptance in the Conservatory of Badalona, where he took composition classes with Alejandro Civilotti and piano with Lluís Perez Molina.

After graduating from the Conservatory in just three years, he decided to attend the Esmuc conducting studies with Maestro Salvador Brotons, where he spent a year before taking the entrance exam to the Fundació Conservatori del Liceu, where he studied orchestration with Benet Casablancas and Ramón Humet, conducting with Manel Valdivieso and Ricard Oliver, and composition with Benet Casablancas, Xavier Pagués-Corella, and Benjamin Keneth Davies. He is now in his last year before heading to FSU (Florida State University) with a full scholarship and a TA (Teaching Assistant) position in composition.

He has also studied diction and choral conducting with Jeremy Rowe in Cambridge and Dénes Szabó in Hungary. With this last, he participated in various courses and gave some concerts with his choir “Cantemus”. He has taken part in several competitions, where he was a semi-finalist in the Estoril Conducting Composition and Course, and he was awarded a special prize in the 2024 Composition Competition of the Tapiola Choir. His works are published by Brotons & Mercadal (Catalonia) and Choralworks (Finland).

Manuel’s music has been premiered and performed in a number of prestigious venues around the world, including the Palau de la Música Catalana – where he has conducted – Auditori Sant Cugat, La Massa Theatre, Auditori Ferreries (Catalonia) and the Great Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory (Moscow). He has also collaborated with prestigious soloists and conductors, ensembles and orchestras such as Salvador Brotons, Manel Valdivieso, Oscar Boada, Anna Farrés, Taras Yasenkov, Pasi Hyökki, Soichi Konagaya, Dénes Szabó, the Sant Cugat Symphony Orchestra, Cor Vivaldi, the Tapiola Choir, the Chungnam Wind Orchestra, the Moscow State Conservatory Choir and Cantemus/Pro Musica.