Biography

After a long period of teaching himself electric bass, guitar and mandolin, Pablo studied double bass at the Conservatorio Profesional de Música in Murcia in 2003 with David Monrabal.

Between 2009 and 2011 he studied towards a master’s degree in orchestra performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Rinat Ibragimov. He currently studies with Evgeny Kolosov of the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, Moscow.

Pablo has collaborated with professional orchestras, such as the Netherland Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de la Región de Murcia, Il Concerto Academico (Spain) and the Ensemble Concertante Maria Lisa Carolis (Italy).

As well as playing in orchestras and chamber ensembles, Pablo enjoys a variety of popular and traditional folk music.

Education

Guildhall School of Music and Drama
London, UK

Conservatorio Profesional de Musica
Murcia, Spain

Quickfire Questions

What is your earliest musical memory?
I think my first musical memory is when I was four or five years old, I was watching on TV a Mark Knopfler concert with Eric Clapton also. I had a stripe on my head as he used to do and I was pretending I was playing guitar with a tennis racquet trying to imitate exactly as he was doing.

If you could play another instrument, what would it be?
I would like to play five string banjo, sitting in a rocking chair in front of my little cabin near the bluegrass hill…

What’s on your playlist right now?
Black Sabbath, Tchaikovsky, Iron Maiden, Donizetti, Tony Bennett and Bill Evans, Hamad Jahmal, Rory Gallagher, Handel, Oscar Peterson, Rinat Ibragimov playing Bottesini, a bit of Carnatic music from South India…