Sara Ramos Contioso (Barcelona, 1974) is a Spanish composer, professor of Composition at Seville Conservatory and researcher at Granada University. Her academic career is based on a solid training background which was developed with Manuel Castillo in Seville; Willem Dagstra in the Conservatori Liceu in Barcelona, and the musicologists Antonio Martín Moreno and Francisco Giménez in Granada. She holds academic awards in Composition and Music History (1998), a DAAD grant at Humboldt University of Berlin (2007) under the tutelage of Prof. Danuser and the Extraordinary Doctorate Award (2019) with an international thesis on the study of "The Spanish requiem in the twentieth century". As a composer, she has an extensive catalogue and she frequently premieres in concert halls all over Spain. She is focused in the composition of religious music and the study of its symbolic and expressive possibilities with examples as the wind quintet "Deus audit me quotidie", the requiem "Cants d'Absencia" , two parables for solo instruments (trombone, organ) and the commission for a string quartet with a mystical nature (commissioned by the Haas Library, UPF Barcelona 2024). She is an active member of the Society of Music Analysis in London, and the director of the Hebdomada Sancta congress in Seville which is focused in the repertoire of processional music in Andalusian Holy Week. For further information see https://sararamoscontioso.com/biografia/