Paul Fernandez
Benlloch
began his piano and violin studies in Valencia, where he studied with Ignacio Millán, Rafael Salinas, Nino Kereselidze or Denis Lossev.
In 2016, he moved to Helsinki, where he completed his Bachelor of Music at the Sibelius Academy, in the class of Erik T. Tawaststjerna and Hui-Ying Liu. Later, he pursed further his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, in the class of Claudio Martínez Mehner and Nina Tichman and Andreas Staier.
He has given recitals in some of the most renowned halls in Spain and abroad and has been awarded in several national competitions. He has also participated in several important festivals in Spain and abroad, such as: IMS Prussia Cove, Encuentro de Música y Academia de Santander, Beethovenhaus Bonn Trondheim Kammermusikfestival, Ensems (Valencia) or Aino Ackté Kamarimusiikkifestivaal. Likewise, he has collaborated as a chamber musician with players such as Kari Kriikku, Calogero Palermo, Rafal Jezierski, Vicente Huerta or Paco Varoch, among others. He has also played as a soloist along with Kammerorkester Basel and has performed on tour with Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
Since 2019, he is co-director of the Festival Ágora - L'Horta Nord, a young music festival focused on chamber and contemporary music in Valencia.
He has also participated in master classes taught by teachers such as Robert Levin, Leonidas Kavakos, Thomas Adès, Andreas Staier, Steven Isserlis, Tamás Vásáry, Ralf Gothóni, Péter Nágy, Gabriela Montero, among many others.
Pau finished his Master studies at the FHNW Hochschule für Musik Basel, in the class of Claudio Martínez Mehner and Anton Kernjak, as currently pursues a degree in historical keyboards and improvisation at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Edoardo Torbianelli and Nicola Cumer.
In 2016, he moved to Helsinki, where he completed his Bachelor of Music at the Sibelius Academy, in the class of Erik T. Tawaststjerna and Hui-Ying Liu. Later, he pursed further his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, in the class of Claudio Martínez Mehner and Nina Tichman and Andreas Staier.
He has given recitals in some of the most renowned halls in Spain and abroad and has been awarded in several national competitions. He has also participated in several important festivals in Spain and abroad, such as: IMS Prussia Cove, Encuentro de Música y Academia de Santander, Beethovenhaus Bonn Trondheim Kammermusikfestival, Ensems (Valencia) or Aino Ackté Kamarimusiikkifestivaal. Likewise, he has collaborated as a chamber musician with players such as Kari Kriikku, Calogero Palermo, Rafal Jezierski, Vicente Huerta or Paco Varoch, among others. He has also played as a soloist along with Kammerorkester Basel and has performed on tour with Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
Since 2019, he is co-director of the Festival Ágora - L'Horta Nord, a young music festival focused on chamber and contemporary music in Valencia.
He has also participated in master classes taught by teachers such as Robert Levin, Leonidas Kavakos, Thomas Adès, Andreas Staier, Steven Isserlis, Tamás Vásáry, Ralf Gothóni, Péter Nágy, Gabriela Montero, among many others.
Pau finished his Master studies at the FHNW Hochschule für Musik Basel, in the class of Claudio Martínez Mehner and Anton Kernjak, as currently pursues a degree in historical keyboards and improvisation at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Edoardo Torbianelli and Nicola Cumer.