From Spain, Pablo Ferrández

A winner at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition and an exclusive Sony Classical artist, Pablo Ferrández is one of the most in-demand instrumentalists of his generation. He has been hailed as a “new cello genius” by Le Figaro, and El Pais says of the cellist, “Ferrández has the lot: technique, mettle, spirit, authority as a soloist, expressivity and charm.”  

His debut album for Sony Classical, “Reflections” (2021), received the Opus Klassik Award. In fall 2022, Ferrández released his second album, featuring the Brahms Double Concerto, performed with Anne-Sophie Mutter, the Czech Philharmonic under Manfred Honeck, as well as Clara Schumann’s Piano Trio, performed with Mutter and Lambert Orkis.

Recent highlights include appearances with Los Angeles Philharmonic at Hollywood Bowl, Czech Philharmonic, Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Oslo Philharmonic, Seoul Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Vienna Radio Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Israel Philharmonic and Rotterdam Philharmonic. Ferrández toured last season with Anne-Sophie Mutter and the London Philharmonic under Ed Gardner, with Munich Philharmonic under Myung-whun Chung, and with the Antwerp Symphony under Elim Chan.

He is also frequently invited to internationally acclaimed festivals such as Verbier, Salzburg, Dresden, Dvořák Prague Festival, Grant Park and Jerusalem, among others.

Born in Madrid in 1991, to a family of musicians, Ferrández entered the prestigious Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía when he was 13 to study with Natalia Shakhovskaya. After that, he completed his studies at the Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson and became a scholar of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation.

Ferrández plays the Stradivarius “Archinto” 1689, on a lifetime loan from a member of the Stretton Society.   

Pablo Ferrández will join violinist Anne Sophie Mutter and pianist Yefim Bronfman in an SCP Chamber Music recital on May 7.