Inditex Extends its Collaboration with the School by Sponsoring its Composition Department

Madrid, February 25, 2025. – Inditex has extended the scope of its collaboration with the Reina Sofía School of Music with the signing of a new agreement that extends its sponsorship to the Composition Department. Inditex has been a patron of the School since 1997 through study grants for its students. This extension of its support reaffirms the group’s commitment to the School and its mission of training new generations of musicians.

The agreement was signed by the founding president of the School, Paloma O’Shea, and the CEO of Inditex, Óscar García Maceiras. The event was also attended by Julia Sánchez and Marjorie Netange, CEO and development director of the Reina Sofía School respectively; together with José Arnau, vice president of Inditex, who joins the Board of Trustees of the School, and Raúl Estradera, director of communication and institutional relations at Inditex.

The Composition Department of the Reina Sofía School of Music, directed by Professor Fabián Panisello, plays a fundamental role in the development of emerging talents in the field of musical creation. In the 2024/2025 academic year, it is made up of six students: Diego Arévalo (Madrid, Spain, 1994); Onir García (La Piedad, Mexico, 1987); Daniel Alejandro Cristóbal (Salta, Argentina, 1995); Pablo Domínguez (Ciudad Real, Spain, 2000); Sevan Gharibian (Yerevan, Armenia, 2000) and Andrés Felipe Poveda (Bogotá, Colombia, 1994).

“Our School is very grateful to Inditex for this new support of the Composition Department. It is a long-standing patron that has always been mindful of the learning and development of its scholarship students. Today, they endorse their support for education and innovation, promoting the talent of our composition students so that they can enrich the contemporary musical repertoire with their work,” said Paloma O’Shea.

For his part, the CEO of Inditex stressed: “As a fashion company, creativity and the pursuit of emotion and beauty occupy a central place in Inditex’s DNA. We admire the work of the Reina Sofía School of Music, an international benchmark for the quality of its training, and we are grateful to take this new step in our collaboration with this Department of musical innovation and talent development of new composers.”

With this alliance, Inditex reinforces its commitment to education, a fundamental pillar of its social responsibility strategy. The Reina Sofía School of Music, for its part, takes a further step in its mission to train the best musicians and composers of the future, always with the conviction that music has a great transformative power for people and societies.