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Queen Sofía College of Music

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Type
  
Private

Principal
  
Paloma O'Shea

Campus
  
Urban

Province
  
Community of Madrid

Established
  
1991

Location
  
Madrid, Spain

Phone
  
+34 915 23 04 19

Queen Sofía College of Music

President
  
HRH The Queen Sofía of Spain

Address
  
Calle Requena, 1, 28013 Madrid, Spain

Notable alumni
  
Eldar Nebolsin, Arcadi Volodos, Leticia Moreno, Alexandre Da Costa

Profiles

The Queen Sofía College of Music (Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Spanish) is a private music college founded in Madrid, Spain, in 1991 by Paloma O'Shea. It is part of the Albéniz Foundation.

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History

The school was founded by Paloma O'Shea in 1991 in Madrid, in order to provide young Spanish musicians with a solid artistic education without the need to study abroad in other European countries.

Programs

The purpose is to train first-rate musicians, and all the necessary resources are made available to students and teachers with this end in mind. The school offers individually tailored instruction to ensure that each student gets the training that he or she needs. However, the school does not award academic degrees of any kind.

Alumni

  • Pablo Ferrández (cello - international soloist)
  • Sol Gabetta (cello - international soloist)
  • Kirill Gerstein (piano)
  • Stanislav Ioudenitch (piano - international soloist)
  • Jozef Kapustka (piano - international soloist)
  • Denis Kozhukhin (piano - international soloist)
  • Plamena Mangova (piano - international soloist)
  • Claudio Martínez Mehner (piano - piano docent)
  • Leticia Moreno (violin - international soloist)
  • Eldar Nebolsin (piano - international soloist)
  • Jong Hwa Park (piano - international soloist)
  • Luis Fernando Pérez (piano - international soloist)
  • Juan Pérez Floristán (piano)
  • Vadim Repin (violin - international soloist)
  • Vestards Šimkus (piano)
  • Tatiana Samouil (violin - international soloist)
  • Arcadi Volodos (piano - international soloist)
  • Former and present staff

  • Dmitri Bashkirov (Piano)
  • Teresa Berganza (Voice)
  • Zakhar Bron (Violin)
  • Gerard Caussé (Viola)
  • Galina Eguiazarova (Piano)
  • José Luis García Asensio (Violin)
  • Frans Helmerson (Violoncello)
  • Tom Krause (Voice)
  • Alfredo Kraus (Voice)
  • Duncan McTier (Doublebass)
  • Ivan Monighetti (Violoncello)
  • Diemut Poppen (Viola)
  • David del Puerto (Analysis)
  • Marco Rizzi (Violin)
  • Antoni Ros-Marbà (Orchestra)
  • Natalia Shakhovskaya (Violoncello)
  • Hansjörg Schellenberger (Oboe)
  • Jacques Zoon (Flute)
  • Rainer Schmidt (Violin, Chamber Music)
  • Heime Müller (chamber music)
  • Marta Gulyas (chamber music)
  • Ludwig Streicher (Doublebass)
  • Alasdair Tait (Chamber music)
  • Rainer Zepperitz (Doublebass)
  • Radovan Vlatkovic (French Horn)
  • Facilities

    The school's new campus is in central Madrid near the Royal Palace and Madrid's main opera theatre, Teatro Real. The new building has over 30 teaching and rehearsal rooms, offices, library and a large concert hall.

    References

    Queen Sofía College of Music Wikipedia