JAVIER COMESAÑA

Described by the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung as “an intelligent and open-minded musician, capable of finding new ways of making music”, Javier Comesaña is the winner of the 6th Jascha Heifetz International Violin Competition in Vilnius and the recipient of the Prinz von Hessen Prize, awarded by the Kronberg Academy in June 2021. He is also a laureate of the International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition. In December 2024, he was awarded the Medal of Honour of the Yehudi Menuhin Spain Foundation in recognition of his artistic achievements.

His principal teachers have been Yuri Managadze and Sergey Teslya. He later studied with Marco Rizzi at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid and with Antje Weithaas at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. He has also participated in masterclasses given by Mihaela Martin, Miriam Fried, Silvia Marcovici and Christoph Poppen, among others. In 2019 and 2021, he received the distinction of Most Outstanding Student in his department from Her Majesty Queen Sofía of Spain.

A passionate chamber musician, he studied with Heime Müller and Marta Gulyás before continuing his training with the legendary Günter Pichler at the Madrid Chamber Music Institute. He has been invited to perform at prestigious festivals, concert halls and institutions including the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, Unione Musicale in Turin, the Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti in Rome, the Associazione Alessandro Scarlatti in Naples, the Lucca Classica Festival, the BBVA Foundation Concert Series, the Cádiz Spanish Music Festival, Noches en los Jardines del Real Alcázar and the Otoño Musical Soriano Festival. He has also shared the stage with distinguished musicians including Tabea Zimmermann, Christian Tetzlaff, Martin Helmchen, István Várdai and Lukas Geniušas. In 2021, he received the award for the Most Outstanding Piano Ensemble from Her Majesty Queen Sofía of Spain for his performance of Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, The Trout by Schubert.

As a soloist, he has performed under the baton of conductors including Pablo González, Vasily Petrenko, David Afkham, Andrew Manze, Otto Tausk, Alejandro Posada and Álvaro Albiach, appearing with leading Spanish orchestras such as the Spanish National Youth Orchestra (JONDE), the Spanish National Orchestra, the RTVE Symphony Orchestra, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and National Orchestra of Catalonia (OBC), the Galicia Symphony Orchestra, the Castile and León Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra, as well as internationally with the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Hannover State Opera Orchestra, Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, Camerata Bern, Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris.

Javier currently performs on a violin made by Claude Pierray, dating from around 1720.