Joaquín was born in Madrid, and received his first violin lessons from Sergio Castro and Anna Baget. He studied at the Basque Higher Center for Music with Keiko Wataya and, beginning in 2016, at the Queen Sophia Higher Conservatory of Music in Madrid under Zakhar Bron and Yuri Volguin. Since 2019 he has been a pupil of Diet Poppen, Head of the Viola Dept. He has taken masterclasses with Mimi Zweig, Daniel Dodds, Natalia Prishepenko, Mari Tampere, Martin Biever, Bartosz Bryla, Vera Martínez Mehner, Lara Lev, Christoph Poppen and Miriam Fried.
Joaquín won1st Prize in the Inter-centre Melómano Contest and the Llanes International Music Contest.
He has performed at the San Sebastián Quincena Musical, the Bilbao Musika Festival and the Musethica International Festival. He has also played with the Adolfo Salazar and Musikene Symphony Orchestras, and made appearances at the Kutxa Concert Hall in San Sebastián and the Juan March Foundation in Madrid. As a student at the Queen Sophia Higher Conservatory of Music in Madrid, he has performed with the KPMG Schubert Group, the Stoneshield Quartet and the Freixenet Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Plácido Domingo, Peter Eötvös, Víctor Pablo Pérez, Andrés Orozco Estrada and Jaime Martín. He is a member of the Queen Sophia Music School Camerata under the direction of Anne-Sophie Mutter.
Joaquín plays a Jacques Fustier viola on loan from the Albéniz Foundation.
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- I am most inspired musically when I am excited and dream about the future.
- If I had to choose a book when stranded on a desert island, it would be E. H. Gombrich’s A Little History of the World.
- I think the hardest thing about being a musician is that you can never stop practicing if you want to keep up your skills.
- The program for my perfect concert would include Prokifiev’s Piano Sonata no. 5 and Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
- What I love about Nostrum Mare Camerata is how carefully everyone prepares before a concert and the repertoire we play. It’s filled with pieces everybody enjoys.