Roberto González-Monjas
| Roberto González-Monjas | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 23, 1988 Valladolid, Spain |
| Genres | Classical music |
| Instruments | Violin |
| Years active | 2008–present |
| Labels |
Sony Classical Claves Records |
Roberto González-Monjas (born February 23, 1988 in Valladolid, Spain) is a Spanish classical violinist and conductor.
Education
He studied at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg with Igor Ozim and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with David Takeno. He has been very much influenced by musical contact with John Corigliano, Ana Chumachenco, Rainer Schmidt, Sergey Fatkulin, Reinhard Goebel, Charles Dutoit, Leonidas Kavakos, Gábor Takacs-Nagy, Christian Tetzlaff, the Hagen Quartet, András Schiff and Ferenc Rados.[1]
Career
Since the 2013/14 season, Roberto González-Monjas is the concertmaster of the Orchester Musikkollegium Winterthur and Primarius of the Winterthurer Streichquartett in a 50% capacity. He devotes the other 50% to the concertmaster position at the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He is also a Violin Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and the Joint Artistic Director at the Medellín Philharmonic Academy in Colombia, as well as working with other educational institutions such as the New World Symphony in Miami and the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra.[1]
He regularly plays with artists such as Kit Armstrong, Janine Jansen, Andreas Ottensamer, Nicolas Altstaedt and Fazil Say[2] as well as Ian Bostridge, Yuja Wang, Alexander Lonquich und Daniil Trifonov.[3] He has also played with Ana Chumachenco, Lukas Hagen, Alessandro Carbonare, Christian Zacharias, Gautier Capuçon, Dénes Várjon, Wen-Sinn Yang und Wolfgang Boettcher and worked with composers such as John Corigliano, Lera Auerbach, Richard Dubugnon and Fazil Say.[1]
He has played as a guest concertmaster with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble, the Manchester Camerata, the Bavarian Kammerphilharmonie and the Camerata Salzburg.[3]
He has conducted and played as a soloist with well-known orchestras such as the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre de l'Opera de Bordeaux Aquitaine, the New World Symphony, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León (of which he is an Artist-in-residence), the Orquesta Filarmónica de Medellín and the Berliner Barocksolisten.[4]
He plays a Giuseppe Guarneri ‘filius Andreae’ violin from around 1710. Its purchase was made possible thanks to five families from the city of Winterthur and the Rychenberg Foundation.[2]
Discography
His debut recording features Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart′s Haffner Serenade and Othmar Schoeck′s Serenade Op. 1 with the Musikkollegium Winterthur, and was released in October 2017 by Claves Records.[5] He also contributed to Reinhard Goebel′s recording of Johann Sebastian Bach′s Brandenburg Concerti with the Berliner Barocksolisten for Sony Classical.[3]
References
- 1 2 3 Roberto González-Monjas. In: Website of Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.
- 1 2 Roberto González Monjas. In: Website of Musikkollegium Winterthur (German).
- 1 2 3 Roberto Gonzáles-Monjas, Violine. In: Website of Pentecost Festival at Château Brunegg.
- ↑ Roberto González-Monjas. In: Website of Verbier Festival (archive version of August 17, 2017).
- ↑ (2017) Mozart & Schoeck – Serenades – Roberto González Monjas, Violin & Direction. In: Website of Claves Records.