José María Sánchez-Verdú (born 1968 in Algeciras) is a Spanish composer.
He studied composition, conducting, and musicology at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música in Madrid, graduating in 1991, and was a lecturer there from 1991 to 1995. He later undertook postgraduate study in direction (with Arturo Tamayo and W. Rajski) and composition (with Hans Zender). He has worked as a conductor in Spain, Italy, and Germany, and has published a number of articles on musical analysis.
He was awarded Spain's Premio Nacional de Música for composition in 2003.
His opera GRAMMA was premiered at the Munich Biennale in 2006.
He lives in Berlin, and is a lecturer in composition at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf.