Name: Xabier Casal Ares
Nationality: Spanish
Date of Birth: 15 April 1988
Music institution (s) attended: Conservatorio Superior de Música de Salamanca. Salamanca (Spain), 2007-2011 Conservatoire “Jacques Thibaud”. Bordeaux (France), 2011-2013 Hochschule für Musik und Tanz. Köln (Germany), 2013-2015
Names of Principle Teachers: Andrés Gomis, Marie-Bernadette Charrier, Daniel Gauthier, David Smeyers
Awards: 1st Prize and an Honorable Mention at the ”Ramón Guzmán saxophone contest”, Santiago de Compostela (Spain) 2010. 1st Prize at the VIII National Performing Contest “Intercentros Melómano”, Madrid (Spain) 2010. 3rd Prize at the “Haverhill Symphonia International Soloist Competition” London, 2012. Medaille d’or à L’unanimité 29o Concours Européen pour Jeunes Solistes.
Luxembourg 2012 1st Prize at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Chamber Music Competition.
Berlin 2014
ELIMINATORY ROUND
SEMIFINAL ROUND
