Roberto González-Monjas | |
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Born |
Valladolid, Spain |
February 23, 1988
Genres | Classical music |
Instruments | Violin |
Years active | 2008–present |
Labels |
Sony Classical Claves Records |
Roberto González-Monjas (born February 23, 1988 in Valladolid, Spain) is a Spanish classical violinist and conductor.
He studied at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg with Igor Ozim and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with David Takeno. He has been very much influenced by musical contact with John Corigliano, Ana Chumachenco, Rainer Schmidt , Sergey Fatkulin, Reinhard Goebel, Charles Dutoit, Leonidas Kavakos, Gábor Takacs-Nagy, Christian Tetzlaff, the Hagen Quartet, András Schiff and Ferenc Rados.
Since the 2013/14 season, Roberto González-Monjas is the concertmaster of the Orchester Musikkollegium Winterthur and Primarius of the Winterthurer Streichquartett in a 50% capacity. He devotes the other 50% to the concertmaster position at the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He is also a Violin Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and the Joint Artistic Director at the Medellín Philharmonic Academy in Colombia, as well as working with other educational institutions such as the New World Symphony in Miami and the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra.