Javier Castiblanque

He trained at the Conservatory in his hometown – Campo de Criptana – with Professor Ana María Alcaraz; at the R.C.S.M. in Madrid, with Joaquín Gericó; at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, with Jaime Martín and Averil Williams; at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart, with Jean-Claude Gerard; at the Academy of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Munich), with Benoît Fromanger, Philippe Boucly, and Natalie Schwaabe; and at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, with Michael Martin Kofler.

He has been awarded in international competitions such as Prague and Kobe (Japan). As a teacher, he has been invited to give classes in Flute and Chamber Music in Austria, Lithuania, Belgium, and Italy, as well as in much of Spain. He has been a guest professor for the Young Orchestra of Andalusia and the National Youth Orchestra of Catalonia.

He is Professor at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música “Victoria Eugenia” in Granada, where he has been teaching since 2005; he collaborates in several editions as a professor-coordinator in the flute specialty of the Master’s Degree in Musical Interpretation at the International University of Andalusia. At the age of 17, he performed as a soloist with the National Youth Orchestra of Spain, interpreting Mozart’s Flute Concerto in G Major. He has also performed as a soloist with the City of Almería Orchestra, the chamber orchestra of the “Caprichos Musicales de Comillas” Festival, the Chamber Orchestra of the R.C.S.M. of Granada, The Soloists of London, and the Verum Symphony Orchestra.

He has given numerous piano recitals in various cities in Spain, England, Germany, Italy, and Japan. In 2005, he was awarded, along with pianist Tomoko Takahashi, the prize for the best concert of the year by the “Freunde Junger Musiker” association in Cologne. He forms a duo with José Luis Morillas, a guitar professor at the RCSM of Granada, with whom he has collaborated in various audiovisual productions and concerts in Slovakia and Iceland.

He has been a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Spain, the Ibero-American Youth Orchestra, the European Union Youth Orchestra, the United World Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, and the Pacific Music Festival (Japan). He has collaborated with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, Les Dissonances, the National Orchestra of Spain, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and National Orchestra of Catalonia, the Cadaqués Orchestra, the Galicia Symphony Orchestra, the City of Granada Orchestra, and the City of Almería Orchestra, among others. He is a member of the BandArt orchestra. This has led him to perform in venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Musikverein in Vienna, and the Royal Albert Hall in London, and to work with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Lorin Maazel, M. Jansons, C. M. Giulini, A. Previn, Sir Colin Davis, V. Ashkenazy, and M. Tilson-Thomas.