Salvador Brotons, who was made the principal flautist of the Orquestra Ciutat de Barcelona in 1977, left Spain to go to study at the Florida State University, a public research university in Tallahassee, Florida, through the Fulbright Scholarship, from which he received his degree in Music.
Ten years later in 1977, he was then made the principal flautist of the Orquestra Ciutat de Barcelona. Later in 1985, Brotons left Spain to go to study at the Florida State University through the Fulbright Scholarship, from which he received his Doctorate in Music. 
