Bio
Pablo Tejedor-Gutiérrez (Madrid, 1994) is a cello and gamba player specialising in Historical Performance. As a solo instrumentalist, he won third place at the 2023 Spanish National Early Music Competition (Jeunesses Musicales) and received the 2022 BritishSpanish Society Arts Award. Numerous institutions have also supported Pablo, from the Excellence Scholarship of the Wilsdorf Foundation to the Société des Amis du Conservatoire de Genève or The Henry Wood, The Macfarlane Walker and The Helen Rachel Mackaness Trusts.
Having studied in Spain (Aldo Mata), Switzerland (Bruno Cocset, Guido Balestracci and David Pia) and the UK (Royal College of Music), he has also attended masterclasses with Christophe Coin, Jaap Ter Linden, Sara Mingardo, Antonio Florio, Lucia Swarts, David Watkin, Michael Chance, Jonathan Manson or Kristin von der Goltz.
Pablo currently enjoys a busy career touring internationally, from Bolivia to Italy and from Portugal to Belgium, performing in mythical venues such as the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Teatro Real or the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid as well as in prestigious festivals such as Namur, Chiquitos, Ambronay, Utrecht or Saintes. His performances have been broadcasted by the BBC3, Radio Télévision Suisse and Radio Catalunya.
In an incessant pursuit of inspiration, Pablo has been lucky enough to share the stage in projects with well-known artists such as William Christie, Philippe Herreweghe, Ashley Solomon, Ophélie Gaillard, Geoffroy Jourdain, Martin Gester, Leonardo García Alarcón, Marco Ceccato, Bojan Cicic or Laurence Cummings.
As principal cello, Pablo can be found playing historically-informed creative bass lines (and some solo ones, too) in many different ensembles specialised in repertoire ranging from Baroque to Romantic times, including prominent bands like Le Parlement de Musique or Holland Baroque, but also emerging groups including Ensemble OrQuesta, Istante Collective, Bellot Ensemble, Les Furiosi Galantes, El Parnaso Hyspano or The Queenes Chappell. He has also been selected to be part of youth period orchestras, including Eeemerging+/Ambronay Academy (2021 and 2022), Jeune Orchestre de l’Abbaye and Jeune Orchestre Rameau.
When he is not performing, Pablo researches cultural history topics, having given and published different articles and papers on the Enlightenment (National Archaeological Museum of Spain, Complutense University, Pavia University, Rey Juan Carlos, University), and teaches for different music institutions, notably lecturing on Early Music Treatises and Sources at the Royal College of Music. Pablo was also invited to be a baroque coach for the Basque Youth Orchestra (EGO) by Lina Tur Bonet in Musikene. Besides stages, academia and teaching, he has even taken part as a viol player in a TV series starring Julianne Moore.
Future and recent projects include concerts on the latest recording by Holland Baroque in Germany, a production with Ensemble OrQuesta at the Monteverdi Festival in Cremona, and another one with El Parnaso Hyspano (Grimeborn Opera Festival), collaborating with the Dartington Festival Orchestra (Rachel Podger and John Butt), and the Festival Hector Berlioz in Isère, France, and performing chamber music concerts with La Frescobalda (Festival d’Alba, Abruzzo), and La Tirana (solo recitals at Festival Musique au Paradis, Horniman Museum or Sands Theatre), or solo piccolo cantatas in Switzerland. Pablo is also preparing a recording devoted to the cello and fortepiano works by women composers from the 1860s.
In addition, since 2023, he has been chosen as solo principal cello leader at the Academia Montis Regalis in Mondovì, Italy, where he will work with renowned musicians such as Enrico Onofri, Amandine Beyer, Fabio Bonizzoni. Pablo is also keen to develop a dynamic chamber music activity, and his main groups have exciting plans: Bellot Ensemble has been selected to be part of the Brighton Early Music Festival’s young artist scheme BREMF Live! and Nocturnalia was chosen as a resident group at the Contratemps Festival in St Cugat (Barcelona) and Slovenia.