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. Furthermore, he has been awarded at the XXIII Concorso Internazionale “Valsesia-Musica” in Varallo, Italy; the XX “Cidade de Ferrol” Piano Competition, Spain; the IX Premio Internazionale Pianistico “A. Scriabin” in Grosseto, Italy; and the VI “Compositores de España” International Competition of Las Rozas de Madrid, Spain.

Juan Lago has performed in Europe, America, Asia and the Middle East as a recitalist, chamber musician and as concerto soloist with orchestras such as the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana (Italy), “Mihail Jora” Philharmonic Orchestra of Bacau (Rumania), Çukurova State Symphony Orchestra (Turkey), and the Spanish Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Orquesta de Córdoba, Orquesta de Valencia and Orquesta Sinfónica de Málaga under conductors Ovidiu Balan, Emin Guven Yasliçam, José Ramón Encinar, Ernest Martínez Izquierdo, José Luis Martínez and Francisco de Gálvez among others.

Lago has appeared as a performer and given master classes at the Washington International Piano Festival (Washington, D.C., U.S.A.); 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); Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK); Festival de Vilaseca (Spain); Alion Baltic International Music Festival (Riga, Latvia); Chetham´s International Piano Summer School (Manchester, UK); 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), Gulangyu Conservatory of Xiamen (China), or Latvian Academy of Music, Riga (Latvia).

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).

He is often invited to serve as a jury member in competitions like Cantù (Italy), S. Rachmaninov (Moscow, Russia), RNCM James Mottram (Manchester, UK), or A. Scriabin (Grosseto, Italy).

Juan Lago has been teaching piano at the “José Iturbi” Conservatory of Valencia, the Talent Music Master Courses University of Brescia, Italy, and the Qatar Music Academy. 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 where he studied with Professor Juan J. Peralta. He has also been influenced by pianists Gyorgy Sebok, Eugen Indjic, Stanislav Pochekin, Imre Rohmann, or Claudio Martínez Mehner.