Carlos Surinach has been played on NTS shows including Phil's Jazz Dis-Junction, with Toccata For Percussion Instruments first played on 5 November 2017.

Carlos Surinach (Carles Suriñach) (Barcelona, Spain, March 4, 1915 - New Haven, Connecticut, United States, November 12, 1997), pronounced [suɾi'ŋak], was a Catalan Spanish-born composer and conductor.

He was born in Barcelona, where he held conducting posts at the Barcelona Philharmonic and the Gran Teatre del Liceu. He studied composition with Enrique Morera at the Barcelona Conservatory, then went to Germany, where he studied in Berlin with Max Trapp, and also with Richard Strauss, taking five of Strauss's seminars. In 1948 his opera…