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Ferrández Castro, Pablo

1991, Madrid, Spain. Started his studies with Professors Arantxa López and Asier Polo. Since the 2004-2005 academic year he studies at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía with Professor Natalia Shakhovskaya, Head of the Violoncello Chair. He enjoys a tuition scholarship from the Educational Council of the Comunidad de Madrid and the Asociacíón de Intérpretes o Ejecutantes. As student of the School he is a member of the Freixenet Symphony Orchestra and hs been soloist under the baton of Mestro Péter Csaba. He is also a member of the Siemens Chamber Orchestra that has been conducted by Maestro Jesús López Cobos. Pablo Ferrández has also participated in master classes with Professors Philippe Müller, Antonio Meneses and Ivan Monighetti as well as in chamber music lessons with Professors Peter Frankl, Walter Levin, Ralf Gothoni and Menahem Pressler. Has received from Her Majesty the Queen the distinction to the “The Most Outstanding Quartet” of the Strings Quartet Department tutored by Professor Rainer Schmidt during the 2006-2007 academic year. Pablo Ferrández has also participated in the Santander Encounter of Music and Academy in July 2007. In March 2008 was First Prizewinner at the Violoncello International Competition in Liezen, Austria. He plays a 1829 Alexandro D’Espine violoncello on loan from the Maggini Foundation.