Judith Jáuregui

Piano
Biography

Personality, refinement and brightness define pianist Judith Jáuregui. British magazine International Piano has portrayed her as ‘creative intuition’, ‘an imaginative artist, a strikingly individual performer who has impressed European audiences with her maturity of expression’. Likewise, in the words of the German magazine Piano News, ‘it is not only the impeccability of her performance that counts, but rather the impression of listening to a pianist who really has something to say’.

In recent years she has been received on leading stages, including the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, the Palau de la Música in Barcelona, the Southbank Centre in London, Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, Flagey in Bruxelles, Konzerthaus Berlin, Suntory Hall Tokyo, NCPA Beijing, Teatro Mayor in Bogotá, Schloss Elmau in Germany, Murten Classics in Switzerland, the Festival International de Piano de La Roque d’Anthéron in France and the Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada, amongst others.

She has collaborated with the Britten Sinfonia, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Sinfonie Orchester Biel Solothurn, the Neubrandenburger Philharmonie, the PFK Prague Philharmonia, Das Neue Orchester Köln, the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonie Hradec Králové, the Slovak Sinfonietta, the OFUNAM in Mexico and the Simón Bolívar Orchestra of Venezuela, besides the principal Spanish orchestras such as the Spanish National Orchestra, Spanish National Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, the Basque National Orchestra, the Castille and Leon Symphony, the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, the Real Filharmonia de Galicia or the ADDA Simfonica, having the opportunity to work with conductors like Andrey Boreyko, Gabriel Bebeselea, Kaspar Zehnder, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Marc Soustrot, Diego Matheuz, Lina González Granados, Víctor Pablo Pérez, Virginia Martínez, Josep Vicent, Jaime Martín, Ramón Tebar, Jaume Santonja, Erik Nielsen, Günter Neuhold or Jan Willem de Vriend.

Born in San Sebastian in northern Spain, Judith Jáuregui has a multicultural background  derived from her Basque mother and her Mexican father, who grew up in France. After initial studies in San Sebastian with Laurentino Gómez and Cristina Navajas and a debut recital at the age of just 11, she ended her education in Madrid and Salamanca with Claudio Martínez Mehner and with the distinguished Russian pianist Vadim Suchanov at the Richard-Strauss Konservatorium in Munich.

Involved in chamber music, her latest alliances are alongside the Mandelring Quartett, the Signum Quartett and the Gerhard Quartet, the violonist Soyoung Yoon and the cellist Nadège Rochat.

Her previous discography her extensive repertoire: from her latest album ‘Die romantische Seele’ (Ars Produktion – 2020) with music by Robert and Clara Schumann that was nominated to the Opus Klassik Awards in the category Soloist of the Year, to the five previous recordings with which she delved into composers such as Liszt, Chopin, Debussy, Falla, Mompou, Szymanowski or Scriabin.