José María Sánchez-Verdú (born 1968 in Algeciras) is a Spanish composer. Sánchez-Verdú graduated in Orchestra Conducting, Musicology and Composition at Madrid's Royal Conservatory and has a degree in Law from Universidad Complutense. He studied composition in 1992 under Franco Donatoni in Siena. He finished his postgraduate studies under Hans Zender at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt from 1996 to 1999. Since October 2001 he lectured on Composition at the Robert-Schumann Musikhochschule in Düsseldorf and since 2008 also at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragon (Zaragoza).