Javier Comesaña
Winner of the VI Jascha Heifetz Competition and the Prinz von Hessen-Preis of the Kronberg Academy, described by the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung as ‘an intelligent and open musician, capable of finding new ways of making music’.
Spaniard, born in 1999, he is the winner of the VI Jascha Heifetz Competition and the Prinz von Hessen-Preis of the Kronberg Academy. Described by the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung as ‘an intelligent and open musician, capable of finding new ways of making music’, after graduating from the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, where he was awarded twice asbest student of his course and the Diploma as Most Outstanding group from Queen Sofia herself, he is currently attending the Master’s course at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, in the class of Antje Weithaas. In September 2021, he also won the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Hannover. As a chamber musician, he has performed with various ensembles in halls such as the National Auditorium of Music, the Teatro Real and the Casino de Madrid, while as a soloist he has played with conductors such as David Afkham, Pablo González, Andrew Manze and Álvaro Albiach, Modestas Barkauskas, Ivan Monighetti or Borja Quintas and orchestras such as the NDR Radiophilarmonie, Orquesta Nacional de España in Madrid, Camerata Bern, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester or the Freixenet Symphony Orchestra.
Javier currently plays an instrument by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini from 1765, generously loaned by the Fritz Behrens Stiftung.