Upright Bass with Adriana R.

I started musical studies when I was 9 at the Valencia Municipal Conservatory "José Iturbi". In 2013, I was admitted to the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) where I obtained my bachelor in Music Performance studying under professors Jonathan Camps from Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and Andrew Ackerman from Concentus Musicus Wien. Thanks to a Fulbright Grant from The Commission for the Intercultural, Educational and Scientific Exchange between Spain and the United States, I started in 2018 a Master in Music Performance at Butler University, Indianapolis (IN) where I have studied under double bassists David Murray, who is the principal of Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, and Ju-Fang Liu, also principal of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. ​I have been an active member of several youth orchestras, including Spain National Youth Orchestra (or JONDE) and I have also developed a professional career as a collaborator for other groups, such as Orquestra Camera Musicae, Orquesta Simfònica del Vallès, and Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (OBC). As a chamber musician, which is my true passion, I was selected to participate in the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Brunswick, Maine on 2019. I am also interested in improvisation and music from other cultures, and that is why I participated in an educational trip “Musicking Futures in Malaysia” in 2019.  ​I have attended masterclasses from prestigious double bassists in Europe and North America, such as Matthew McDonald and Edicson Ruiz from Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Gary Karr, Kurt Muroki, and others.