Natacha Correa Larrea

Born in Urrao (Colombia) in 1989. Since 2019, she studies at the Reina Sofía School of Music’s International Institute of Chamber Music with professors Hansjörg Schellenberger, Radovan Vlatković, Gustavo Núñez, Jacques Zoon and Pascal Moraguès. She has been granted scholarships by Fundación Santo Domingo and Fundación Albéniz.

She began her clarinet studies at the age of 13 at the Batuta Antioquia Foundation with José Antonio García and Laura Payome. From 2007 to 2014 she studied at the EAFIT University in Medellín, where she was assistant researcher in several music projects. From 2015 to 2019 she studied at the Reina Sofía School of Music’s Clarinet Chair with professor Michel Arrignon. In 2017 Her Majesty Queen Sofía handed her the Mention to the most outstanding chamber group in the category of wind ensembles, as part of the O Globo Quintet.

She has attended masterclasses by Marco Bonfigli, Javier Asdrubal Vinasco, Francesc Navarro, Sabine Meyer and Reiner Wehle. She has participated in the Claribogotá, ClarinEafit and Clarisax festivals, the Clariguatapé clarinet camp in 2012 as well as in the International Clarinet Course in Prades in 2013. She has been a member of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Antioquia and the Iberacademy Orchestra. She has also taken part in different productions with the EAFIT Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony of Medellín and the Symphony Orchestra of Colombia. In the 2018-2019 season she was selected by the National Association of Performers to tour Spain.

As a student of the School, she has been part of the Freixenet Symphony Orchestra, conducted by András Schiff, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Plácido Domingo and Víctor Pablo Pérez. She has also been a member of the Sinfonietta under the baton of Jorge Rotter, and that of the Harmonie and Fundación Mutua Madrileña ensembles. She is currently part of Madrid’s International Institute of Chamber Music’s Globo Ensemble.