Peregrí Portolés Chulvi was born in Borriol - Castelló, Spain, in 1963. He studied music at the “Conservatorio Superior de Música de Valencia” with M. Rosa Gil. He is prize of honour in the elementary, middle and high grades. He was given a scholarship several times and he had the opportunity to expand his studies and receive advice from teachers and guitarists of recognition.
He performed his first concert at the age of eight and since then he performed concerts all over the country as well as on the radio and television, as a soloist and with different groups of musicians emphasizing the duos formed with Clara Llop, pianist, and Nèlia Sanxís, flautist. He was awarded in different national and international contest like: “II Concurs regional” in Vila-real, “V Certamen Nacional Manuel Palau” in Valencia, “IX I XI Certament Internacional Francisco Tárrega” in Benicasim. The yeard 1977 and 1979 he was the youngest finalist in the history of the contest “IV Mostra Juvenil per a solistes” in Barcelona, “III Concurs Nacional de joves interprets” in Saville, among others contests.
Since 1985 he is the guitar teacher of the “Conservatori Professional de Música de Tortosa”, and he is fully dedicated to the pedagogical task.
In the field of composition he is the composer of different works for solo guitar and for different instruments groups, as well as pedagogical studies. He has published musical works for: guitar; two and more guitars; flute, guitar and piano; guitar and string quartet; music trios; with the editorials “La mà de guido”, “Perifèria music”, “Chanterelle” and “Brotons & Mercadal”. With this last editorial he is publishing the collection of then volumes of the method “Escola de guitarra”.
Lastly, he has won the second prize in the composition competition “Internationaler Kompositionswettbewerb im Saarland 2010” in Germany, with the musical work for three guitars “Temps de juventut”, published by the editorial “Chanterelle”.