Roberto González-Monjas

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Roberto González-Monjas (born February 23, 1988 in Valladolid , Spain ) is a Spanish violinist and conductor .

education

He studied at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with Igor Ozim and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with David Takeno. He was strongly influenced by musical contacts with John Corigliano , Ana Chumachenco , Rainer Schmidt , Sergei Fatkulin, Reinhard Goebel , Charles Dutoit , Leonidas Kavakos , Gábor Takacs-Nagy, Christian Tetzlaff , the Hagen Quartet , András Schiff and Ferenc Rados .

career

Roberto González-Monjas has been the first concertmaster of the Musikkollegium Winterthur since the 2013/14 season with a workload of 50% and first violinist of the Winterthur string quartet. He is also 50% concertmaster of the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He also teaches violin at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and as Joint Artistic Director of the Medellín Philharmonic Academy in Colombia, and works with educational institutions such as the New World Symphony in Miami and the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra .

He regularly plays with artists such as Kit Armstrong , Janine Jansen , Andreas Ottensamer , Nicolas Altstaedt and Fazil Say as well as Ian Bostridge , Yuja Wang , Alexander Lonquich and Daniil Trifonov , has also worked with Ana Chumachenco, Lukas Hagen , Alessandro Carbonare, Christian Zacharias , Gautier Capuçon , Denes Varjon, Wen-Sinn Yang and Wolfgang Boettcher and has worked with composers such as John Corigliano, Lera Auerbach , Richard Dubugnon and Fazil Say.

He played as concertmaster with the Philharmonia Orchestra London , the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra , Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble , the Manchester Camerata , the Bavarian Chamber Philharmonic and the Camerata Salzburg .

He has led well-known orchestras such as the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra , the Orquesta de l'Opera de Bordeaux Aquitaine , the New World Symhpony , the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León , with which he is Artist in Residence , the Orquesta Filarmónica de Medellín and the Berliner Baroque soloists and played with them as a soloist.

He plays a violin made by Giuseppe Guarneri filius Andreae from around 1710, the purchase of which was made possible by five Winterthur families and which is made available to him by the Rychenberg Foundation .

Recordings

Recordings of Mozart's Haffner Serenade and serenades by Othmar Schoeck with the Musikkollegium Winterthur on Claves Records and Bach's Brandenburg Concerts with the Berlin Baroque Soloists under Reinhard Goebel on Sony Classical .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Roberto González-Monjas. In: Website of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama , London.
  2. ↑ a b c Roberto González Monjas. In: Website of the Musikkollegium Winterthur .
  3. ↑ a b c Roberto Gonzáles-Monjas, violin. In: Website of the Whitsun Festival Schloss Brunegg
  4. ↑ Roberto Gonzalez-Monjas. In: Website of Villa Pennisi in Musica, Acireale.
  5. ↑ Roberto González-Monjas ( Memento from August 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: Verbier Festival website .
  6. ↑ (2017) Mozart & Schoeck - Serenades - Roberto González Monjas, Violin & Direction. In: Claves Records website .
personal data
SURNAME González-Monjas, Roberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish violinist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Valladolid , Spain