JUAN LAGO (SPAIN)

Since the beginning of his career, Spanish-born pianist Juan Lago has attained
numerous prizes in the foremost piano competitions in Spain. Most recently, he
has been awarded at the XXIII Concorso Internazionale “Valsesia-Musica” in
Varallo, Italy; the XX “Cidade de Ferrol” Piano Competition; the IX Premio
Internazionale Pianistico “A. Scriabin” in Grosseto, Italy; and the VI “Compositores
de España” International Competition of Las Rozas de Madrid. As a consequence of
these successes, Juan Lago performed his first European tour and his first
recording of an album for “Radio Clásica,” Spanish National Radio, featuring works
by Beethoven, Scriabin, and Bartók.
Juan Lago has performed in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, the Netherlands,
Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, England, Russia, Latvia, Turkey, United States,
China, South Korea and all major cities in Spain as a recitalist, chamber musician
and as concerto soloist playing under conductors such as Ovidiu Balan, Emin
Guven Yasliçam, José Ramón Encinar, Ernest Martínez Izquierdo, Joachim Jousse,
José Luis Martínez and Francisco de Gálvez among others, as well with orchestras
such as the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana (Italy), “Mihail Jora” Philharmonic
Orchestra of Bacau (Rumania), Çukurova State Symphony Orchestra (Turkey),
Istambul Chamber Orchestra (Turkey), and the Spanish Orquesta de la Comunidad
de Madrid, Orquesta de Córdoba, Orquesta de Valencia and Orquesta Sinfónica de
Málaga.
Lago has appeared as a master artist at the Washington International Piano
Festival (Washington, D.C., U.S.A.); the Festival del Mediterráneo at the Palau de les
Arts (Valencia, Spain), directed by Zubin Mehta; Talent Music Summer Courses
(Brescia, Italy); Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne (Germany); Musical
Krasnogorsk (Moscow, Russia); Schubertiaden Schnackenburg (Germany); Festival
de Vila-seca (Spain); Alion Baltic International Music Festival or Semaine
Internationale Piano et musique de chambre (Blonay, Switzerland).
As an avid chamber musician, Juan Lago has collaborated with violinists Vasco
Vassilev, Alissa Margulis and Santiago Juan, violist Santiago Cantó, cellist
Alexander Buzlov and Iván Balaguer and pianist Belén Navarro.
He has presented lectures at Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal), Hochschule für
Musik und Tanz Köln (Germany), Hochschule für Musik Aachen (Germany),
Gulangyu Conservatory of Xiamen (China), Latvian Academy of Music, Riga (Latvia)
or Conservatorio José Iturbi of Valencia (Spain).
Juan Lago is the Founder and Artistic Director of Campillos International Piano
Competition since 2007, Piano Department Director of Valencia International
Performance Academy and Festival (VIPA) and Artistic Director of Malaga
International Piano Festival (FIPMA). In addition, he is the Artistic Director of the
“Amadeus” piano concert series.
He is often invited to serve as a jury member in competitions like Cantù (Italy), S.
Rachmaninoff (Moscow, Russia), F. Chopin (Hartford, CT. USA), Parnassós
(Monterrey, Mexico) and many others.
Since 1999, Juan Lago has served as professor of piano at the “José Iturbi”
Conservatory of Valencia, where he became piano department Chair in 2010. He
has also been teaching piano performance at the Talent Music Master Courses in
Brescia, Italy, since 2017. Currently Juan Lago is teaching piano at the Qatar Music
Academy by the Qatar Foundation. His students have been awarded numerous
times in international and Spanish competitions.
Lago holds a Master’s degree in Performance and Musical Research from the
Valencian International University; an Artist Diploma from the Amsterdam
Conservatorium, where he studied under the tutelage of Professor Jan Wijn; a
Bachelor’s degree from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid, where he
studied with Professor Ana Guijarro, and a degree from the Conservatorio Superior
de Málaga (Professional Degree), where he studied with Professor Juan J. Peralta.
He has also been influenced by pianists Gyorgy Sebok, Eugen Indjic, Stanislav
Pochekin, Imre Rohmann, Claudio Martínez Mehner and Leonel Morales.