This multi-award-winning pianist and composer was born in 1969 in Seville to a prestigious flamenco family boasting a long line of legendary performers. Dorantes absorbed the roots of flamenco at home, but also studied piano at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música of Seville from a very young age. Consequently, Dorantes has always searched for a synthesis of traditional flamenco and classical and avant-garde music. His first major, and most famous, composition, "Orobroy," premiered at the French Festival d'Art Flamenco de Mont de Marsan in 1996, and was subsequently perfo...