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 He pursued musical studies at the Escuela Popular de Bellas Artes and at the National Conservatory of Music. He also took part in master classes in Cuba, France, and Spain with distinguished teachers such as David Russell, Leo Brouwer and José Luis Rodrigo. 

He has participated in numerous national and international festivals in countries such as Mexico, United States, Bolivia, Canada, Spain, France, Italy, the Czech Republic, Germany, Turkey, Norway, and Denmark, among others. 

He currently serves as Rector of the Conservatorio de las Rosas in the city of Morelia, Michoacán. 

Born on September 18, 1987, Muhammed Yıldırır began studying the violin at the age of seven under the guidance of his father, Ali Yıldırır. Performing in the Turkish music orchestras directed by his father, he quickly attracted attention for his self-taught style and charismatic stage presence, earning the title of “Turkey’s youngest virtuoso violinist.” During his formative years, he presented a series of concerts aimed at introducing Turkish music through solo performances and arrangements for violin and piano. At the age of 25, he entered the Guinness World Records by performing Flight of the Bumblebee in 37 seconds, surpassing David Garrett’s previous record of 66 seconds and earning the title of “the world’s fastest violinist.”

Alongside his concert career, Yıldırır studied Composition at Istanbul Technical University, Sound Engineering at Yıldız Technical University, and Film Directing at Marmara University, although he attributes his artistic development primarily to his autodidactic training rather than to academic education. Early in his career, he distinguished himself through international projects and concerts; he later embarked on a Turkish tour with the Russian Red Army Dance Ensemble in a production entitled Muhammed Yıldırır Concerts, involving a cast of 150 performers. He was subsequently invited as a soloist by numerous symphony orchestras across Europe and Turkey, presenting programs that combine Turkish music with the Western classical repertoire, while also integrating jazz, Gypsy music, and his own arrangements into an authentically multicultural musical language.

As an artistic director and consultant, Yıldırır founded and directed the Başakşehir and Beyoğlu Municipal Youth Orchestras, and later established the Hatay Philharmonic Orchestra and the Hatay Philharmonic Association, offering young musicians opportunities with an international scope. In addition to his work with public institutions, he continues to serve as a consultant for numerous private organizations and has organized many music competitions, panels, conferences, and intercultural artistic projects throughout Turkey.

His discography includes Çölde Serap (Mirage in the Desert), released in 2007 and consisting of original compositions influenced by Carnatic music, and The Carnival, released in 2025, which blends Gypsy, classical, Turkish, tango, and klezmer traditions. He is also the creator and host of the TRT television program Virtuosity with Muhammed Yıldırır.

In recognition of his virtuosity and intercultural vision, Yıldırır was the only Turkish violinist invited by L. Subramaniamto perform at the 35th edition of the Lakshminarayana Global Music Festival, which over the past three decades has hosted legendary artists such as Roby Lakatos, Vadim Repin, Yehudi Menuhin, Mstislav Rostropovich, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Stéphane Grappelli, Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque, Herbie Hancock, Al Jarreau, George Duke, Ravi Shankar, Anoushka Shankar, Béla Fleck, and Billy Cobham.

He has represented Turkey at festivals in India, Italy, France, Romania, Germany, and many other European countries. Furthermore, together with Roby Lakatos and L. Subramaniam, he conceived the Cross-Cultural Brotherhood Project, presenting concerts and events both in Turkey and across Europe.

Today, Muhammed Yıldırır continues to pursue his artistic career actively, hosting internationally renowned artists in the festivals in which he participates and that he organizes, while simultaneously creating new opportunities for young musicians. He performs on a historic 1779 Ferdinand Gagliano violin.

Born in Ankara, pianist Dilan Dereli began her piano studies in 2001 with the Polish pianist Halina Andrejewska. In 2004, while studying at TED Ankara College, she successfully passed the talent examinations for the Ankara State Conservatory of Hacettepe University, beginning her academic training under the guidance of Professor Yeşim Alkaya. She graduated at the top of her high school class and completed her undergraduate degree ranking third in her graduating class.

In 2008, she studied with Professor Aquiles Delle-Vigne at the Summer Academy of the Mozarteum University Salzburg, and in 2010 she continued her studies with Professor Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden in Nancy, France. In 2011, she spent one month at the Gümüşlük Festival Academy as part of the Gümüşlük International Classical Music Festival, studying with Ilya Itin, Peter Katin, Misha Dacic, Julian Gorus, Gülsin Onay, and İbrahim Yazıcı. Throughout her academic career, she also participated in masterclasses given by Oxana Yablonskaya, Mehmet Okonşar, and İdil Biret, and studied privately with Hatıra Emrahlı. During her middle and high school years, she attended courses in music theory, music history, and improvisation with the renowned Turkish composer İlhan Baran.

In 2012, she joined the Doğuş Children’s Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Rengim Gökmen, performing concerts in Ankara and Eskişehir.

In 2013, she spent a year as an Erasmus student at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, studying piano with Klaus Sticken, chamber music with Johannes Kropfitsch, and piano accompaniment with David Arronson. In 2015, she performed in a live concert broadcast on TRT 3 Radio Ankara as part of the Bartók International Music Festival, while also contributing to the organization of the festival.

After graduating, from 2015 to 2018 she taught vocal accompaniment and piano at the Ankara University State Conservatory, while also working as a stage pianist. During her conservatory years, she gave recitals and chamber music concerts in numerous cities including Ankara, Istanbul, Konya, and İzmir. In September 2019, she completed her master’s degree with highest honors, continuing her studies with Professor Yeşim Alkaya Yener.

In 2020, she met soprano Burcu Hancı for the first time, with whom she performed in Bodrum. In November 2021, she performed three works by Muammer Sun for voice and piano with Burcu Hancı as part of the Muammer Sun Memorial Concert organized by the Hacettepe University State Conservatory. In March 2022, she recorded these three works for voice and piano together with soprano Burcu Hancı and bass-baritone Burak Bilgili at the Arter Art Gallery. The album was released on all digital platforms by Gloss Music.

In May and June 2023, she performed for the first time at the Pera Palace Hotel with Burcu Hancı and bass Teyfik Rodos during the award ceremony of the 5th Denizbank First Screenplay and First Film Competition, and later gave a concert with Burcu Hancı at Kadir Has University. In November 2022, she joined the Agora Symphony Orchestra, performing with the renowned Italian tenor Alessandro Safina at the ATO Congresium. In May 2023, she took part in the “Coffee Concerts” at the Süreyya Opera House together with Burcu Hancı.

In September 2023, she was invited to Bayburt, where she performed with Burcu Hancı and Serhan Bali at the “Harman Sonu” event organized by the Kenan Yavuz Ethnography Museum. In the same month, she appeared as a guest on the radio program Başrolde Kadınlar (“Women in Leading Roles”), produced by Zeliha Tekin Şahin and hosted by Sinem Yıldırım Yalçın on TRT 3 Radio. She also participated as a guest artist in a concert by the Eskişehir Metropolitan Municipality Symphony Orchestra in Istanbul under the direction of Rengim Gökmen, together with Zülfü Livaneli, Görkem Ezgi Yıldırım, Zeynep Halvaşi, and Teyfik Rodos. In December of the same year, she once again performed at Alessandro Safina’s concert in Ankara.

In November 2024, together with architect Övgün Ateşoğlu, she founded the Muse Art Collective in Adana with the aim of bringing new vitality to the art world. Following the highly acclaimed inaugural concert with Burcu Hancı, she presented the collective’s second concert in January 2024 with Teyfik Rodos. On March 8, International Women’s Day, she performed with renowned cellist Jamal Aliyev at Galeria Deniz of Denizbank. On March 23, she was invited by the Eskişehir Metropolitan Municipality Symphony Orchestra to perform with Zülfü Livaneli.

On March 27, she performed with Burcu Hancı and narrator-baritone Serhan Bali at the Decollage Art Space in Suadiye. On April 4, she presented her program Schubertiade with Serhan Bali at the Muse Art Collective, and on April 7 she performed the same program at the Mozarthaus in Ankara. Throughout the year, she organized a total of six concerts under the Muse Art Collective label, concluding the season, by public demand, with a concert together with Burcu Hancı and Teyfik Rodos.

In July 2024, she appeared as a guest on the program Classics at Sea, conceived and hosted by Serhan Bali and Can Erol, where she performed Debussy’s Estampes. In August, she performed with Burcu Hancı and Burak Bilgili at the Coffee Concerts at the Istanbul Archaeological Museums, presenting the same program later that day in Üsküdar at the invitation of the municipality. In September, she gave a concert with Serhan Bali at the Nesin Mathematics Village. In October 2024, she performed with mezzo-soprano Nesrin Gönüldağ at the “Shining People Conference” organized by Oggusto in Istanbul.

In November 2024, she founded the chamber music ensemble “Terra Trio” together with violinist Bensu Ünsal and cellist Ezgi Yağmur Bilgin, inspired by the depth of nature. The trio gave its debut concert at the Mozarthaus in Ankara and today includes contemporary Turkish music in its programs.

In December 2024, they performed with soprano Burcu Hancı and tenor Çınar Onur Öner at Re22 Culture and Art in Antalya. Their first concert of 2025 took place at the Erimtan Museum with Burcu Hancı and Burak Bilgili. They subsequently performed with Serhan Bali at the Mozarthaus in Ankara and with the Terra Trio in Ankara and Bursa. In March, they participated in the program Virtuosity with Muhammed Yıldırır, hosted by the renowned violinist Muhammed Yıldırır. In May, they took part in the “Film Music” project with violinist Can Özhan, performing in Adana and Antalya.

Alongside her performing career, Dilan Dereli has taught piano at the Early Music Education Department of Bilkent University since 2017 and is also a faculty member at Prodigies Music. Since 2017, she has additionally been a certified NLP trainer and holds a degree in Media and Communication from Anadolu University.

He has received awards in several national and international music competitions, both as a soloist and in classical chamber ensembles. He has collaborated with various Italian and international orchestras.

From 2012 to 2014, he served as principal bassoonist of the Houlencourt Soloists Chamber Orchestra in Brussels. He maintains an intense concert activity as both soloist and chamber musician for musical associations and institutions in Italy and abroad.

Antonio Cicero is a bassoon virtuoso not only within the traditional classical repertoire, but also in jazz, swing, and especially tango, a musical language in which he has worked successfully for more than ten years.

In January 2012, he founded the Sestetto Armonia for strings and bassoon, with which he explored the repertoire of Astor Piazzolla, releasing the CD Pasion de Bassoon, dedicated to tango repertoire and Latin music, which achieved great critical and public acclaim. In 2014, he founded the Quartetto Atipico Danzarin, dedicated to the promotion of traditional tango music.

In 2016, he recorded the album An Italian Tale in duo with Luciano Troja, featuring original compositions by Troja, for the label Almendra Music.

His musical projects have been praised by specialized critics for their quality and originality, and have also attracted considerable media attention on Radio Tre, Radio Classica, Radio Mozart Italia, and Radio Nacional Clásica.

In 2021, he released two albums dedicated to tango. On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Astor Piazzolla, he recorded the album FagotTango for the prestigious Argentine label Acqua Records, in duo with Fabrizio Mocata, a project that received enthusiastic praise from both critics and audiences.

For the same label, he also released the album Un tango para vos in duo with Fabricio Gatta, an Argentine composer who created a new repertoire of original tangos for piano and bassoon.

Da Sur a Sur is a recent recording with Trio Atipico and Elisa Lorena, dedicated to the tradition of sung tango. He has also recently released a new album.

Since July 2022, he has been the Artistic Director of the Filarmonica Laudamo, the oldest concert association in Sicily.

Self-taught since childhood, and graduated in Jazz Composition from the Conservatorio Corelli di Messina, he studied for many years with Salvatore Bonafede, as well as with Franco D’Andrea, James Williams, Shirley Scott, Dan Haerle, Phil DeGreg, and Richie Beirach.

He has released more than 15 CDs as leader and co-leader. He has performed throughout Italy, Europe, and the United States in specialized festivals and concert series, including Casa del Jazz, the Bari Piano Festival, Curva Minore, the Klaipeda Jazz Festival, the Athens Biennale, the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, Chris’ Jazz Café in Philadelphia, the Italian Cultural Institute London, and the Maybeck Recital Hall.

For more than twenty years, he has collaborated with guitarist Giancarlo Mazzù, performing as a duo across Europe and the United States. Together they have developed a highly personal approach to the Great American Songbook through three albums, receiving numerous accolades, including “Album of the Year” from El Intruso Jazz Magazine Argentinaand All About Jazz Italia, as well as a nomination for the Independent Music Awards.

In 2010, Luciano released the solo piano album At Home With Zindars, which was awarded the prestigious “Record To Die For 2011,” the highest annual recognition from the renowned American magazine Stereophile.

Since 2011, Luciano has worked closely with Blaise Siwula and Rocco John Iacovone, veterans of the New York jazz and improvised music scene, performing and recording numerous times in the United States and releasing albums on the labels NoFrills Music, Unseen Rain, and Silver Horn.

In 2016, he released the album of original compositions inspired by the songs of Giovanni D’Anzi, An Italian Tale(Almendra), in duo with classical bassoonist Antonio Cicero. Since then, the duo has performed with great success in numerous jazz and classical concert seasons throughout Italy.

He is co-founder and musical director of the Pannonica Workshop, an innovative ensemble of Sicilian jazz and classical musicians active for more than twenty years, particularly devoted to the music of major contemporary American composers.

Since 2015, he has collaborated with the “Laboratorio Suono & Ritmo” founded by Giovanna La Maestra and Francesca Billè, working on projects fostering cohesion between musicians and young people with disabilities, with whom he participated in the Zclam Festival in Paris.

From 2013 to 2022, Luciano served as Artistic Director of the Filarmonica Laudamo, the oldest concert association in Sicily. Within this historic institution, in 2015 he founded the Filarmonica Laudamo Creative Orchestra, collaborating, among others, with Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso, the ICP Orchestra, Blaise Siwula, R.J. Iacovone, Salvatore Bonafede, Dave Burrell, and Marco Cappelli.

In 2023, he released the solo piano album To New Life, recorded live at the Maybeck Recital Hall for Almendra Music, which received outstanding reviews from specialized critics, including the remark by Ian Patterson in All About Jazz: “A contender for solo piano album of the year.”

He began his trumpet studies in Montserrat (Valencia, Spain) and graduated from the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Valencia, where he studied with Vicente Prats and received the Extraordinary Honor Prize upon completion of his studies. He also received several other awards for trumpet performance, including the First Prize “Mariano Puig.”

In 2015, he earned a PhD in Music from the University of Valencia for his research on the use of mutes in trumpet performance.

He has performed as a soloist with major orchestras and musicians around the world and has recorded several CDs as a soloist with various chamber ensembles.

In 2015, he toured Asia for Toyota as a member of the “Convent Garden Soloists Orchestra.”

He is a permanent soloist with the Grup Instrumental, the Valencia Symphony Orchestra, and Valencia Brass, among others, and collaborates frequently with the Grup Instrumental.

He is professor at the Conservatorio Superior de Música Salvador Seguí de Castellón, where he also serves as director of the academic institution.

A trumpeter of remarkable talent and professionalism, he has built an important career and become a prolific musician, internationally recognized for his work in the classical genre.

She graduated with highest honors in Piano from the Conservatorio Superior de Música Joaquín Rodrigo de Valencia, where she studied with pianists Marisa Blanes and Jaume Bertomeu.

She attended advanced masterclasses with renowned pianists including Brenno Ambrosini, Guillermo González, Mario Monreal, Luciano González Sarmiento, Ramiro Sanginés, and Jorge Luis Prats, among others.

In 2005, she earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the University of Valencia.

In 2017, she completed a Master’s Degree in Cultural Management at the Open University of Catalonia.

In the field of chamber music, she has extensive experience as an accompanist for opera singers. She currently performs in duo with oboist Miguel Morellá Giménez, with whom she has undertaken numerous tours throughout Spain, including the world premiere performances of works by composers belonging to the Valencian Association of Symphonic Composers (COSICOVA) at the Palau de la Música de València. She has recently formed the Dumka Trio together with David Fons and Carmina Morellá, performing in renowned chamber music festivals in Spain and Italy.

As an educator, she teaches at the Conservatorio Superior de Música Salvador Seguí de Castellón, where she is also a member of the institution’s management team.

José Manuel Cuenca studied piano and clarinet at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Córdoba, completing his studies on both instruments with the Extraordinary End-of-Degree Prize.

He has developed an extensive artistic career in Spain, Belgium, Poland, Germany, Cuba, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, Andorra, the United States, Venezuela, Austria, Brazil, Croatia, Hungary, Greece, Ukraine, Denmark, Italy, Turkey, Sweden, Lebanon, Syria, Portugal, Switzerland, the Philippines, and Japan, performing in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, the National Auditorium and the Teatro Real, the Hacettepe Auditorium in Ankara, the Southbank Centre “Purcell Room,” the Auditorium of the Andrés Segovia House Museum on the occasion of its inauguration, the Palau de la Música de València, the Guitar Palace in Japan, among others.

Together with his brother Francisco Cuenca, he has released eight albums, primarily devoted to Spanish music, published and distributed by Dial Discos S.A. of Madrid. They have also produced a live video recorded at the Guitar Palace in Japan and a DVD recorded at the Fazioli Gallery in Paris by Searstar-Music TV.

He was awarded the 2001 Culture Prize by the City Council of Linares in recognition of his contribution to culture. Likewise, the weekly newspaper Linares Información awarded him the “Linarenses sin Fronteras” Prize in 2004, alongside important artists such as Raphael.

In May 2005, he was appointed Honorary Professor of the Huarte de San Juan Institute of Linares under the patronage of Dr. Perucho, the internationally renowned scientist who discovered human oncogenes.

In 2007, he received the “Dulce de Membrillo” Honorary Mention from the María Górriz Women’s Association of Puente Genil (Córdoba). In 2009, the City Council of Puente Genil granted him the title of Favorite Son and the Gold Medal of the city. In 2010, he received the Andrés Segovia Medal from the foundation bearing the name of the celebrated guitarist from Linares.

Almudena Roca was born in 1995 in Cartagena, Murcia. From an early age, she was drawn to the world of dance and began her studies at the Professional Dance Conservatory of Murcia, where she advanced rapidly through the curriculum and completed her degree ahead of schedule, graduating with honors in Spanish Dance and Flamenco in 2012.

She won First Prize in Spanish Dance and Flamenco at the Tiempo de Danza Competition in Murcia and was awarded a scholarship by Virginia Valero, director of the Conservatorio Superior de Danza María de Ávila, to pursue her studies there. In 2017, she graduated from the same institution with a Higher Diploma in Choreography and Performance of Spanish Dance and Flamenco.

During this period, Almudena had the opportunity to study with teachers such as Elvira Andrés, Óscar Jiménez, Isabel Bayón, José Maldonado, Pedro Córdoba, David Coria, Antonio Pérez, Virginia Valero, Eva López Crevillén, Gonzalo Zaragoza, Guadalupe Mera, and Ángel Martínez Roger, among many others.

She combines her professional career with academic work, obtaining a Master’s Degree in Flamencology from the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya in September 2018. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Art History at the University of Murcia.

In 2019, she joined the Compañía María Pagés, performing in productions such as De Sheherazade, Yo Carmen, Una Oda al Tiempo, Siete Golpes y un Camino, and Memoria del Clavel. She is also part of the Compañía Jesús Carmona alongside Oscar de Manuel in the production Bailando con Carmen, as well as the Compañía Marco Flores for the audiovisual project Un cuerpo es, produced by LaCostaProduce.

She performs as a solo dancer with pianist José Manuel Cuenca in productions such as Sentimiento Andaluz, Fuego en la Sangre, Pasión Andaluza, and Homenaje a Federico García Lorca, at times sharing the stage with baritone Luis Santana and actors Emilio Gutiérrez Caba and Maria Galiana. She also performs as a solo dancer with flamenco guitarist Carlos Piñana.

Throughout her career, she has distinguished herself as a soloist with the José Antonio Ruiz Flamenco and Dance Company, the Antonio Márquez Company, the Sangre y Raza Company, the Compañía Lírica Zarzuela! Spanish Musical under the direction of Carlos Vilán, the Clara Ramona & Co Company under the direction of Nino and Isaac de los Reyes, the Ballet Flamenco del Cante de Las Minas de La Unión under the artistic direction of Javier Latorre, Ángel Manarre, Ángel Rojas, and Carlos Rodríguez, as well as the Spanish Ballet of Murcia under the direction of Carmen and Matilde Rubio.

Joaquín Palomares is regarded by music critics as one of the finest Spanish violinists of our time. He graduated with honors in Violin and Chamber Music from the Conservatories of Valencia and Brussels, where he studied under Alos, Léon-Ara, Kleve, de Canck, and van den Doorn. He further refined his training with the virtuosos V. Klimov, D. Zsigmondi, and Aaron Rosand (heir to the tradition of Auer, Jascha Heifetz, and Efrem Zimbalist), from whom he absorbed a virtuoso-romantic style recognized by both national and international critics. The Spanish newspaper El Paísdescribed him as “a violinist of extraordinary technique, with a powerful and incisive sound, who has always imposed the unquestionable law of the virtuoso,” while the Stuttgarter Zeitung referred to him as “a virtuoso-poet with a Latin temperament.”

Following his debut as a soloist at the age of fifteen in Ludwig van Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, he embarked on an international career that has taken him to some of Europe’s and Japan’s most prestigious concert halls, including the Konzerthaus Vienna, the Konzerthaus in Oslo, the Auditorio Nacional de Música, the Teatro Real, and the Palau de la Música de València, among others.

He has performed with some of the world’s most prestigious orchestras, including the Spanish National Orchestra, the RTVE Symphony Orchestra, the Mozart Orchestra of Vienna, the Virtuosi of the Berlin Philharmonic, and the Chamber Orchestras of Łódź and Venice, among others, under the direction of conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Jurowski, and Chernouschenco. He has also appeared at renowned festivals including Santander, Granada, Spoleto, Avignon, and Monte Carlo.

He regularly collaborates with distinguished musicians such as James Levine, Bruno Canino, Aaron Rosand, R. Aldulescu, Claude Delangle, and Franco Petracchi.

He has made numerous recordings, receiving a nomination for the 1999 Gramófono Awards with a CD released on the Milhaud label. His most recent recordings, devoted to the violin concertos of Ludwig van Beethoven, Paul Hindemith, Ernest Chausson, Serebrier, and Montesiones, have been widely acclaimed by specialized critics.

He performs on a Nicolaus Gagliano violin (Naples, 1761) and a Roberto Regazzi violin (Bologna, 2003).

Since 2016, he has served as Full Professor of Piano and maintains an intense concert activity both as a soloist and chamber musician, regularly performing alongside some of the most distinguished contemporary Spanish musicians. After years of important collaborations with several chamber ensembles, including the Grup Instrumental de València, he founded the Trío Iturbi in 2015, with which he performed — among many other projects — the complete Beethoven Piano Trios in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth (2020/2021).

He is a member of highly active ensembles such as the Liber Quartet (together with Javier Eguillor, Jesús Salvador Chapi, and Carlos Apellániz), the Trío Capriccio (with David Fons and David Apellániz), as well as the duo formed with violinist Enrique Palomares. From his many projects with baritone Vicente Antequera (Winterreise, Dichterliebe, El Canto del Minotauro, etc.) emerged in 2012 a performance based on Enoch Arden by Richard Strauss, with which they toured extensively throughout Spain alongside actress Rosana Pastor. Together with pianist Carlos Apellániz, he continues one of his longest-standing artistic projects, the piano duo Apellániz-Oliver, with which they recently created their own version of Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin, inspired by the version performed by the Iturbi brothers at Carnegie Hall in 1938.

He performed for several seasons with the Orchestra of the Valencian Community under the baton of Lorin Maazel and Zubin Mehta. Between 2008 and 2022, he also served as piano soloist with the Valencia Orchestra, performing much of the symphonic piano repertoire with conductors such as Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Michel Plasson, Eiji Oue, Gustavo Gimeno, Walter Weller, Fabio Biondi, and Ton Koopman, among others.

As an accompanist, he has collaborated with internationally renowned soloists such as Gregory Kunde, Nathalie Stutzmann, Matthias Goerne, Gautier Capuçon, Vadim Repin, Simon O’Neill, John Tomlinson, Angelika Kirchschlager, Bo Skovhus, Stefan Vinke, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Waltraud Meier, and Maria José Montiel.

For more than ten years, he served as titular organist of the Historic Organ of Montesa, from which he founded and directed the Montesa International Organ Festival in 2006.

He has recorded for the labels Naxos and Brilliant Classics, as well as for Radio Nacional de España.

He curated the 2020/2021 season of the Palau de la Música de València under the title José Iturbi 125, as well as the exhibition Iturbi, més enllà de Hollywood, organized by the City Council of Valencia to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the Valencian pianist’s birth. He also edited the volume Iturbi, més enllà de Hollywood, published in 2021.

In 2020, he founded the Valencia Iturbi International Piano Festival, promoted by the Diputación de Valencia, becoming its first Artistic Director while simultaneously serving as Artistic Coordinator of the 21st Iturbi International Piano Competition under the artistic direction of Joaquín Achúcarro.

He obtained a Master’s Degree in Research from the Polytechnic University of Valencia in 2012.