JAVIER COMESAÑA

Javier Comesaña is the winner of the 6th Jascha Heifetz International Competition in Vilnius and of the Prinz von Hessen Prize awarded by the Kronberg Academy. He also holds the title of Laureate of the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition and has received the Medal of Honour of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation Spain in recognition of his career.

His principal teachers were Yuri Managadze and Sergey Teslya. Subsequently, as the most outstanding student of his class, he studied with Marco Rizzi at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid and with Antje Weithaas at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. In addition, he has taken part in masterclasses led by Mihaela Martin, Miriam Fried, Silvia Marcovici and Christoph Poppen, among others.

He has been invited to perform at numerous prestigious festivals, venues 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 Scarlatti in Naples, the Lucca Classica Festival, the BBVA Foundation Music Series, the Cádiz Festival of Spanish Music, Noches en los Jardines del Real Alcázar and the Otoño Musical Soriano Festival. Given his strong interest in chamber music, he is also currently the violinist of the Trio Michelangeli, with whom he performs regularly in Italy and Germany.

As a soloist, he has appeared under the direction of conductors such as Pablo González, Vasily Petrenko, David Afkham, Andrew Manze, Alejandro Posada and Álvaro Albiach, and with leading Spanish orchestras including the Spanish National Youth Orchestra (JONDE), the Spanish National Orchestra (OCNE), the RTVE Symphony Orchestra, the Barcelona Symphony and National Orchestra of Catalonia, the Galicia Symphony Orchestra, the Castile and León Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville; as well as internationally with ensembles such as the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, the Hanover State Opera Orchestra, the Poznań Philharmonic, the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, the Milan Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, Camerata Bern, the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss and the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester.

Javier currently plays a violin built by Claude Pierray, dating from around 1720.