Pablo Barragán Hernandez
| Date of birth: | 31.07.1987 |  |
| Instrument: | clarinet | |
| Nationality: | Spanish | |
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| Prize: | 1st Prize, EMCY Prize | |
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Pablo was born in Marchena (Seville). He studied in the Conservatorio Superior de Música Manuel Castillo de Sevilla (Spain) with the professors Antonio Salguero and Antonio García Herrera. Furthermore, he realised his clarinet and chamber music studies in the Academia de Estudios Orquestales of the Fundación Barenboim-Said with the professors Matthias Glander, Ildefonso Moreno, Gregor Witt and Julia Deyneka. Pablo has assisted to master classes with Sabine Meyer, Vicente Alberola, J. Enriq Lluna or Vladimir Ashkenazy. In 2009, he got a scholarship by the Fundacion Caja Madrid for postgraduate studies and later on moved to the city of Basel (Switzerland), where he is currently taking part in the clarinet class of Professor François Benda in the Hochschule für Musik Basel. In Chamber Music he has realised studies and master classes with the professors Anton Kernjak, Ferenc Rados, Sergio Azzolini, Felix Renggli, Benjamin Engeli, Wolfram Christ and Radovan Vlatkovic, as well as he has taken part in festivals like the Basel Kammermusik Festival or the Podium Musikfestival Esslingen. In 2011 he got the Master Performance of Arts Diploma. Currently he is continuing his studies in the Solisten Diplom (Soloist Diploma) with Professor F. Benda.
Pablo made his debut as a soloist in the Musiksaal of Stadtcasino-Basel, with the Sinfonieorchester Basel (Symphonic Orchestra Basel) and under the baton of Gabriel Feltz, performing the Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra (Op. 57) by C. Nielsen. He has also given concerts in the III Festival Nacional de Música Noches de San Pedro (Spain), in the Encuentro de Música y Academia de Santander in 2011, in Sala Pereda del Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria, in the Paraninfo del Palacio de la Magdalena de la Universidad Menéndez Pelayo and in the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona in the XVI edition of Ciclo de Conciertos El Primer Palau.
In April 2011 he was awarded 1st Prize and EMCY Prize in the 75th Concurso Permanente de Jóvenes Intérpretes de Juventudes Musicales de España taking place in the Centro Cultural Miguel Delibes in Valladolid. In 2012 he won the Orpheus Chamber Music Prize 2012 with the Spiral Trio at the Orpheus – Swiss Chamber Music Competition.
As a member of different symphonic and chamber ensembles, he has worked under the baton of maestro Daniel Barenboim in the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and the Ensemble Members of Divan Orchestra, with Yoel Gamzou in the International Mahler Orchestra, with Yaron Traub in the Orquesta Sinfónica in the Academia de Estudios Orquestales Barenboim-Said, with Michael Thomas in the Orquesta Joven de Andalucía and with Pedro Halffter in the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla. Pablo has also worked with other conductors such as Pablo González, Enrique Mazzola, Pierre Boulez, Heinz Holliger, Juan Luis Pérez, Arturo Tamayo and Howard Griffiths. Together with these orchestras and ensembles he has performed in some of the most prestigious concert halls and theatres around the world such as the Teatro de la Maestraza (Sevilla), the Kursaal (San Sebastián), the Teatro alla Scala (Milan), the Auditorio Santa Cecilia (Rome), the Musikverein (Vienna), the Mozarteum and the Salzburger Festspielhaus (Salzburg), the KKL (Luzern), the Royal Albert Hall (London), the Salle Pleyel (Paris), the New Opera House (Oslo), the Berwald Hall (Stockholm), the Waldbühne, the Staatsoper, and the Philharmonie (Berlin), the State Conservatoire P. I. Tchaikovsky Hall (Moscow) and the Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), amongst others.
Pablo has been invited by EMCY to perfom two chamber music concerts as part of the Victoria International Arts Festival in Malta in June 2012.Find out more about Pablo on his website: www.pablobarragan.es
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Repertoire
Solo:B. Kovacs, Hommage à Falla
B. Kovacs, Hommage à Bartók
O. Messiaen, Abyss of Birds
G. Miluccio, Rhapsodie for solo Clarinet
T. Olah, Sonata for solo Clarinet
K. Penderecki, Prelude for solo Clarinet
I. Stravinsky, Three Pieces for solo Clarinet
With piano:
A. Berg, Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano (Op. 5)
L. Bernstein, Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
J. Brahms, Sonata for Clarinet and Piano No. 1 in F minor (Op.120, No.1)
J. Brahms, Sonata for Clarinet and Piano No. 2 in E flat Major (Op. 120, No. 2)
C. Debussy, Rhapsodie for Clarinet and Piano
C. Debussy, Petite Pièce for Clarinet and Piano
J. Françaix,Theme with Variations for Clarinet and Piano
P. Hindemith, Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in B flat Major
A. Honegger, Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano
W. Lutoslawski, Five Preludes and Dances for Clarinet and Piano
B. Martinu, Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano in B flat Major
A. Messager, Solo de Concours for Clarinet and Piano
K. Penderecki, Three Miniatures for Clarinet and Piano
F. Poulenc, Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
M. Ravel, Pieza en forma de habanera
G. Rossini, Introduction, Theme and Variations
C. Saint-Saens, Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in E flat Major (Op. 167)
S. Brotons, Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (Op. 46)
C. M. Weber, Duo for Clarinet and Piano in E flat Major (Op. 48)
Chamber music:
L. van Beethoven, Trio for clarinet, violoncello and piano in B flat Major (Op. 11)
L. van Beethoven, Octet in B flat Major (Op. 103)
A. Berg, Chamber Concerto for piano, violin and thirteen winds
B. Bartok, Contrastes for violin, clarinet and piano
J. Brahms, Quintet for clarinet and string quartet in B minor (Op.115)
J. Brahms, Trio for clarinet, violoncello and piano in A minor (Op.114)
M. Bruch, Eight Pieces for clarinet, viola and piano (Op. 83)
E. Denisov, Quartet for clarinet, violoncello, trombone and piano, DSCH
A. Dvorak, Serenade for winds, cello and bass in D minor (Op. 44)
M. Glinka, Trio for clarinet, violoncello and piano No. 4 in B flat Major (Op. 11)
G. Kurtag, Trio for clarinet, viola and piano, Hommage à Robert Schumann (Op. 15d)
W. A. Mozart, Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet in A Major, K. 581
W. A. Mozart, Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano in E flat Major, K. 499
W. A. Mozart, Serenade for thirteen woodwinds in B flat, Gran Partita, K. 36,1
O. Messiaen, Quartet pour la fin du temps for clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano
K. Penderecki, Quartet for clarinet and string trio
F. Poulenc, Sonata for two clarinets
F. Poulenc, Sonata for Clarinet and Bassoon
M. Ravel, Introduction and Allegro for sextet
C. Saint-Saens, The Carnival of the Animals
A. Schönberg, Chamber Symphony No. 1 (Op. 9)
P. Schönfield, Trio for clarinet, violin and piano
F. Schubert, Octet in F Major (Op. 166)
R. Schumann, Trio for clarinet, viola and piano, Märchenerzählungen (Op. 132)
I. Stravinsky, The Soldier’s tale (both versions, for trio and for septet)
C. M. Weber, Quintet for clarinet and string quartet in B flat Major (Op. 34)
C. M. Weber, Duo for clarinet and piano in E flat Major, Gran Dúo Concertante (Op. 48)
C. M. Weber, Six Lieder for voice, clarinet, bass clarinet, violin and violoncello (Op. 14)
With orchestra:
M. Bruch, Concerto for clarinet, viola and orchestra in E minor (Op. 88)
A. Copland, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra
C. Debussy, First Rhapsodie
J. Françaix, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra
W. A. Mozart, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra in A Major, K. 622
C. A. Nielsen, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra (Op. 57)
G. Rossini, Introduction, Theme and Variations
L. Spohr, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra No. 1 in C minor (Op. 26)
L. Spohr, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra No. 2 in E flat Major (Op. 57)
C. M. Weber, Concertino for clarinet and orchestra in E flat Major (Op. 26)
C. M. Weber, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra No. 1 in F minor (Op. 73)
C. M. Weber, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra No. 2 in E flat Major (Op. 74)
If you are interested in working with Pablo, please get in touch with the EMCY Office.
