Fernando Arias

Professor of cello at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, Fernando Arias combines his pedagogical vocation with an intense concert career, both as a soloist and in chamber music.

As a soloist, he has played with orchestras such as the Orquesta de Radiotelevisión Española, the Orquestra de Barcelona i National de Catalunya, the Orquestra Simfònica del Vallés, the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, etc., under the conduction of maestros such as Lawrence Foster or Álvaro Albiach and on stages such as the Auditorium Nacional, Palau de la Música de Catalunya, etc.

Likewise, he regularly offers recitals in the most important halls of Spain and in countries as diverse as Germany, the United States, Russia, Japan, France, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Portugal, Serbia, Tunisia or Mozambique.

Especially interested in chamber music, he shares the stage with artists of the stature of David Kadouch, Antje Weithaas, Anthony Marwood, or the Cosmos and Quiroga quartets, and more usually with the VibrArt Trio, of which he is a member and founder, together with Miguel Colom and Juan Pérez Floristán.

Among his discographic works, it is worth highlighting the recording for Sony Classical of the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto, the complete Brahms sonatas for cello and piano together with the pianist Luis del Valle (Columna Música), his album with the VibrArt Trio with works by Schubert and Shostakovich (Solè Recordings) and his latest released CD, “Slavic Soul” with pianist Noelia Rodiles, with works by Dohnanyi, Janacek and Shostakovich (Eudora Records).

His recent and upcoming engagements include soloing the cello concertos by Vivaldi, Haydn, Beethoven (Triple Concerto), Saint Saens, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Schostakovich, Ibert or Gulda.

Within the pedagogical facet of him, Fernando Arias is frequently invited to give magisterial lessons of cello and chamber music both in Spain and abroad. From 2012 to 2015 he was part of the teaching team of the Yellow Barn festival (Vermont, United States). He is Adjunct Professor of Cello at the Reina Sofía School of Music and in 2019 he won the Cello Chair of the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid by opposition.

Fernando Arias began his musical studies with Arantza López, and continued them with Ángel Luis Quintana, Michal Dmochowski and Natalia Shakhovskaya at the Reina Sofía School of Music, where he received from the hands of Her Majesty Queen Doña Sofía the title of "Most Outstanding Student ". He completed his training with Eberhard Feltz and in Jens Peter Maintz's class at the Universität der Künste Berlin.