Curiculum Vitae
Jorge Giménez was born in Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, in
2001.
Education:
He began his cello studies at the age of four. He studied a Bachelor Degree in
Violoncello Performance at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de las Islas
Baleares, Spain, with Prof. Emmanuel Bleuse. He graduated in June 2019 and
received the Extraordinary End of Degree Award.
From August of 2019 to May of 2021 he studied with Amit Peled at Peabody
Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. He graduated in May
of 2021 and received the James Winship Lewis Memorial Prize in Performance
“for his outstanding accomplishments and contributions to the musical and
educational life at Peabody.”
During his time at Peabody Institute, he was granted with the “Excellence in
Music Leadership Full Scholarship” from The Johns Hopkins University.
Currently he is pursuing a Master’s Degree in Violoncello Performance at
Koniklijk Conservatorium Brussel, Belgium, with Jeroen Reuling. On September
he will become an artist in residence at the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Music
Chapel, where he will start a 3 year program in the class of Gary Hoffman. At
the same time he will finish his Master’s Degree at KCB.
In 2011 he began to take classes regularly with Maria de Macedo in Madrid,
until 2019.
Some masterclasses and courses that he has participated in throughout his
years of formations include several courses of the Franz Schubert Foundation,
in Porto, Portugal, with professors Lluis Claret, Amit Peled, Claudio Bohorquez
and Marc Coppey; the week-long cello forum CelloMad 2015, in Madrid, with
Jens Peter Maintz; in 2016, Troels Svanne, and in ‘CelloLeón 2017’, in León,
with Amit Peled; masterclasses with Gary Hoffman in Madrid and Lisbon, at the
“Verao Classico” course, where he also has had masterclasses with Adrian
Brendel in 2018 and with Frans Helmerson and Kyril Zlotnikov in 2020.
In 2020 he received masterclasses from Cecylia Barczyk, Emmanuel Feldman
and Alban Gerhardt at Peabody Institute.
Other professor that he has had masterclasses with are Paul Badura-Skoda,
Daniel Müller-Schott, Clive Brown, Guy Danel, Christoph Henkel, Amparo
Lacruz, among others.
In March of 2022 he has participated in the Schiermonnikoog Festival for Young
Talents, where he had masterclasses with Gary Hoffman and Jeroen Reuling.
Awards:
Throughout his career, he has been awarded in many national and international
competitions, being the last of them, Juventudes Musicales de Madrid
Scholarship award (2019), 1st prize at Mount Vernon Virtuosi Cello Competition
(2020), 1st place at KPIMC (2020), 2nd prize at the “Gustav Mahler Prize Cello
Competiton 2021” , 2nd prize at Park Na competition for violin and cello (2021).
Performance experience:
Jorge has performed with orchestras as a soloist in Spain since 2015, such as
the OSIB, and in the U.S., the MVV orchestra. He has performed the concertos
of Haydn in C, Haydn in D and Dvorak as a soloist. In December of 2021 he did
a tour of four concerts as a soloist where he performed the concerto in D by
J.Haydn with the MVV orchestra, as part of the 1st prize of the competition he
won in 2020. In 2018 and 2019 he performed in the European Music
Foundation Stringsfest Festival and ̈Enrique Granados ̈ Festival. Since 2017
he is a guest artist at the Deia International Music Festival where he performs
with different renowned artists and chamber music formations as well as cello-
piano recitals. Since 2017 he performs regularly as scholar in the OSIB and in
2022 he has obtained the 2nd place in the orchestra bursary. In October of 2021
he was invited as a guest professor by the string department of the CSMIB to
give masterclasses to the violoncello students.
Renowned artists that he has collaborated with are: Krzysztof Penderecki,
Marin Alsop, Amit Peled, Asier Polo, Josep Colom, Chee-Yun Kim, Emanuel
Pahud, Vasko Vasilev, Mikhail Zemtsov, Marc Coppey, Joan Enric Lluna, Gilles
Apap, Jean-Pierre Lecaudey, Jesse Malin, Benjamin Schmid, Daniel Röhn,
among others.