GUEST TEACHERS
Luis Arias Fernández
Born in Madrid, he began his musical studies at the age of six at the CEDAM Academy, later continuing at the Professional Conservatory of Music in Ferraz with R. Pareja and J. Rovira. He completed his training at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid with Ana Guijarro, and spent four years at the Reina Sofía School of Music studying under Galina Eguiazarova, Marta Gulyas, and Luis Fernando Pérez, with the support of various institutions such as Ibercaja, Fundación Albéniz, AIE, Juventudes Musicales de Madrid, and the Madrid Regional Government.
Throughout these years, he has received guidance from renowned musicians including Ferenc Rados, Joaquín Soriano, Mikhail Voskresensky, Claudio Martínez-Mehner, Peter Donohoe, Radovan Vlatković, and Jacques Zoon, among others.
He is frequently invited to collaborate with a wide variety of musicians and ensembles, having performed in some of Spain’s most important concert venues such as the National Auditorium of Music, Teatro Real, Teatros del Canal, Palau de la Música in Barcelona, and Auditorio Edgar Neville, as well as internationally in countries including Mexico, France, Israel, Germany, Sweden, and Serbia.
For several years, he has combined an intense teaching activity with performance. He has taught at the Pablo Sarasate Conservatory in Pamplona and the Castile and León Higher Conservatory of Music. He currently balances his performing career with teaching positions at the Aragón Higher Conservatory of Music and the Reina Sofía School of Music.
Jonathan Müller
Jonathan Müller completed his higher music studies at the University of Music Karlsruhe, under the guidance of Professor Reinhold Friedrich. In parallel, he broadened his training by attending numerous masterclasses led by renowned trumpet players such as Håkan Hardenberger (Malmö), Kristian Steenstrup (Aarhus), Klaus Schuhwerk (Basel), Jouko Harjanne (Helsinki), Hannes Läubin (Munich), Luis González (Barcelona), and Uwe Köller (Graz).
Jonathan has been awarded several times in the “Jugend musiziert” competition. In 2006, he won First Prize and a Special Prize at the “Carl-Schröder” Competition in Sondershausen (Thuringia). In 2010, he was the only trumpet player to reach the third round of the German National Music Competition (Deutscher Musikwettbewerb), and as a result, received a scholarship from the organisation and made several recordings. Likewise, in 2011, he was the only German trumpet player to reach the third round of the prestigious ARD International Music Competition. He has also been awarded scholarships by institutions such as the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.
In terms of orchestral experience, Jonathan trained in various youth orchestras, including the Youth Orchestra of Baden-Württemberg, the German National Youth Orchestra, and the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester. This led him to become a member of the Orchestra Mozart, under the direction of Claudio Abbado. He has also collaborated with major orchestras such as the hr-Sinfonieorchester, NDR-Sinfonieorchester, BR-Sinfonieorchester, and the Spanish National Orchestra, among others.
Since 2013, he has held the position of Principal Trumpet with the prestigious Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig.
As a soloist, he has performed with orchestras including the Nürnberger Symphoniker, Staatskapelle Halle, Thüringer Symphoniker, Vogtland Philharmonie Greiz/Reichenbach, Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, Münchner Kammerorchester, and the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester.
Óscar Fernando Trujillo Gómez
Trumpet professor at the University of Caldas, director of the Redentorista Conservatory, and holder of a Bachelor’s degree in Music from the University of Caldas and a Master’s degree in Music with a focus on trumpet from EAFIT. He is a trumpet player, composer, and conductor.
He began his musical training through the Caldas Departmental Band Programme and has received further instruction in Venezuela, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Brazil. He was awarded a scholarship by the Mazda Foundation for Art and Science.
His compositions have won multiple national awards, including the National Band Contest of Paipa (2010, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021), the Pedro Ignacio Perilla National Band Competition (Anapoima, 2014), the Ramón Jaramillo Jurado National Band Contest (Rionegro, 2015), the National Competition for Original Band Music (San Pedro, 2017), and the Mono Núñez Festival of Colombian Andean Music (2018). His arrangements and compositions have been performed by a wide range of prestigious ensembles, such as the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba, Zaragoza Wind Ensemble, Dominican Philharmonic Orchestra, Youth Symphony Orchestra of El Salvador, Orléans Symphony Orchestra, University of Wisconsin Wind Symphony, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Totó la Momposina, Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra, Colombian National Symphony Orchestra, and the Caldas Symphony Orchestra, among others.
He was a member of the Kanna Jazz Brass Ensemble, with which he recorded two albums and won the National Pasillo Festival. He was a semi-finalist in the 2nd Latin American Eric Aubier Trumpet Competition. He has also served as trumpet professor at the Technological University of Pereira and was principal trumpet of the Caldas Symphony Orchestra for 15 years.
In 2019, he toured Europe with his ensemble 5 pa’l mundo, including a recital at the Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona, performing a programme consisting entirely of his own compositions.
As a conductor, he has led the Caldas Symphony Orchestra, the Municipal Band of Manizales, the University of Caldas Symphonic Band, the University of Caldas Brass Ensemble (which he founded), and currently conducts the Redentorista Conservatory Wind Band.
He has performed as a soloist with the Caldas Symphony Orchestra, CIMA International Music Festival, Municipal Band of Manizales, Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music, Caldas Chamber Orchestra, Valle Departmental Band, University of Caldas Symphonic Band, Manizales International Music Festival, among others.
He is currently trumpet professor at the University of Caldas, founder and director of the Redentorista Conservatory, and director of the ensemble 5 pa’l mundo, with which he has released two albums featuring his own compositions. He also actively collaborates in various music education initiatives throughout Colombia and Latin America.
Reinhold Friefrich
Since winning Second Prize at the ARD Competition in Munich in 1986, Reinhold Friedrich has performed on some of the world’s most prestigious stages. His repertoire ranges from the most contemporary works for solo trumpet to the earliest compositions for the instrument, including the baroque trumpet and the keyed trumpet. He made his debut at the Berliner Festwochen performing Sequenza X by Luciano Berio, and in 1994 he appeared at the Musikverein in Vienna, playing the Haydn Keyed Trumpet Concerto.
He has been principal trumpet of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra since its founding, and serves as artistic director of its Brass Ensemble.
He has performed with Capriccio Basel, the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, and the Vienna Academy Orchestra, specialising in period instruments. He has premiered works by composers such as Wolfgang Rihm, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Rebecca Saunders, Hans Werner Henze, Nicolaus A. Huber, and Adriana Hölszky. His wide-ranging repertoire includes works such as Eirene by Herbert Willi and Nobody Knows de Trouble I See by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, the latter earning an ECHO Klassik award.
As a soloist, he has performed with ensembles such as the Berliner Barock Solisten, La Stagione Frankfurt, the Vienna and Basel Chamber Orchestras, the Bamberg and Vienna Symphony Orchestras, the Radio France Philharmonic, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and all the ARD orchestras. He has worked under esteemed conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Semyon Bychkov, Dennis Russell Davies, Peter Eötvös, Reinhard Goebel, Martin Haselböck, Philippe Herreweghe, Christopher Hogwood, Eliahu Inbal, Krystjan and Neeme Järvi, Dmitri Kitayenko, Sir Neville Marriner, Ingo Metzmacher, Jonathan Nott, Kazushi Ono, and Hans Zender, among others.
His recent chamber music collaborations include performances with Eriko Takezawa (piano), Robyn Schulkowsky (percussion), Martin Lücker and Sebastian Küchler-Blessing (organ). Since 2013, he has performed with the ensemble L’éventail de Jeanne, alongside Claudio Bohórquez (cello), Sascha Armbruster (saxophone), and Eriko Takezawa (piano).
He has performed in Japan, Mexico, Israel, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland, and Switzerland with groups such as the Lucerne Festival String Ensemble, Berliner Barock Solisten, Jenaer Philharmonie, and the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen.
His recent engagements include Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 with the Philharmonie Baden-Baden (where he was artist-in-residence) conducted by Sir András Schiff. In May 2017, he premiered a new trumpet concerto written for him by Benjamin Yusupov. He has also served as an artistic advisor to the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Juilliard School in New York, guiding the production of a recording and a concert series focused on the music of Giovanni Gabrieli.
He will also perform alongside Dorothee Mields with the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra of Leipzig, as well as with the Erfurt Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès, Camerata of Israel, and the Taiwan Symphony Orchestra. With the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, he will premiere the trumpet concerto Aerial by HK Gruber.
His extensive discography reflects the breadth of his work, including award-winning recordings such as Russian Trumpet Concertos (ECHO Klassik) with the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christoph Mathias Mueller, a recording with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by George Benjamin, and the world premiere of Pietà, a trumpet concerto by Christian Jost (Coviello Classics). He also recorded Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 with the Berliner Barock Solisten, conducted by Reinhard Goebel (Sony).
Reinhold Friedrich is a professor in Karlsruhe and Hiroshima (Japan), and an honorary professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He gives masterclasses worldwide, and many of his former students hold teaching posts at institutions such as the universities of Hanover, Paris, Essen, Detmold, and Budapest, or perform with leading orchestras in Berlin, Munich, Paris, Madrid, Brussels, Leipzig, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Moscow, Tokyo, and Rio de Janeiro.
He currently holds the IF International Foundation Trumpet Chair at the Reina Sofía School of Music.
Margarita Kozlovska
Margarita Kozlovska is a Ukrainian pianist based in Spain, who combines a prolific concert career with teaching roles at some of the country’s most prestigious music academies.
She achieved early success, winning several regional and national competitions in her native Ukraine. Over the course of her career, she has received awards at international piano and chamber music competitions in cities such as Rome, Budapest, Białystok, and Ischia, and has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Filharmonia Podlaska, Filharmonia Podkarpacka, and the Málaga Philharmonic Orchestra.
Alongside her solo work, she maintains an intense concert schedule, appearing in international concert series and festivals such as Poznań Poetów Festival (Poland), Chopin w barwach jesieni (Antonin, Poland), Fortepianowe Mozaiki (Łódź, Poland), AETYB Congress 2022 (Málaga, Spain), CREA Competition 2022 (Estepona, Spain), and the New Voices Competition (Seville, Spain). She has also performed at venues such as the Teatro de la Maestranza (Seville), Espacio Turina (Granada), and the Teatro Auditorio Felipe VI (Estepona).
She currently works as a Piano Accompanist Professor at both the Double Bass Chair (Unidad Editorial) and the Trumpet Chair of the Reina Sofía School of Music, while also serving as Piano Accompanist at Musical Arts Madrid and the Galamian International Academy in Málaga.
Her collaborations also include work with the Orchestra of Antonio Banderas’ Teatro del Soho and the Opera Choir of Málaga.
Eriko Takezawa
Eriko Takezawa was born in Hiroshima (Japan) and studied in Germany with Naoyuki Taneda and Wolfgang Manz. She graduated with distinction in 1995 and continued her education through masterclasses with J. Uhde, E. Picht-Axenfeld, D. Kraus, and S. Dorenski.
She went on to win several international competitions, including First Prize at the International Piano Competition in Ostuni (Italy) in 1994. This success led to a busy concert schedule, with performances at prestigious festivals and venues across Europe and Asia, including the Schwetzingen Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, and the Lucerne Festival.
Eriko Takezawa is a sought-after chamber music partner for renowned wind soloists such as Reinhold Friedrich, Sergio Azzolini, Ingo Goritzki, Renate Greiss-Armin, and Thomas Indermühle, and is a permanent member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. For many years, she has also been one of the most in-demand accompanists for international competitions and concert projects.
She has achieved remarkable success worldwide as a soloist, particularly with Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1.
In 2014, she received critical acclaim for her performances of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Benjamin Yusupov’s Listen to Our Cry, in their premieres in Israel and Germany.
Eriko Takezawa has worked as a répétiteur at the Musikakademie Basel and taught at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus (Denmark). She has also given classes at MUSIKENE in San Sebastián and at the Hochschule für Darstellende Künste in Frankfurt.
She currently works as a repetiteur at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, where her coaching workshops are in high demand.
She is praised by the media for her lightness of touch, technical brilliance, and captivating musicality, which consistently enchant audiences.
Her numerous acclaimed recordings — including the award-winning CD Mysteries, a collaboration with Simon Höfele (winner of the Deutscher Schallplattenkritikpreis 2018) — are further testament to her outstanding musical career.
Raúl Junquera
Raúl Junquera began his musical studies at the L’Artesana Musical Society of Catarroja, later completing his trumpet degree at the “Joaquín Rodrigo” Higher Conservatory of Music in Valencia under the tutelage of Professor Leopoldo Vidal Estrems. During his studies, Raúl was awarded an Honourable Mention in intermediate level and the Prize of Honour at advanced level by unanimous decision.
He continued his training with Pierre Thibaud, Professor at the Paris Conservatoire.
He has participated in advanced training courses with renowned teachers such as John Wilbraham, Bo Nilsson, Claude Vasse, Håkan Hardenberger, Max Sommerhalder, Andrea Lucchi, Gábor Tarkövi, and Thomas Stevens, among others.
He has served as principal trumpet of the Valencia Conservatory Orchestra, and has collaborated with the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome), the Valencia Orchestra, Madrid Symphony Orchestra, Córdoba Orchestra, City of Granada Orchestra, Asturias Symphony Orchestra, University of Valencia Orchestra, Torrent Orchestra, and the Balearic Islands Symphony Orchestra. From 1994 to 1996, he was principal trumpet of the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, and later became principal trumpet of the Valencia Municipal Band.
He was awarded First Prize in Chamber Music at the Young Performers Competition of Spain, and was a finalist at the Passau International Brass Ensemble Competition (Germany). As a soloist, he reached the semifinals in the Toulon International Competition (France) and the Geneva International Music Competition (Switzerland).
He is currently principal trumpet of the Valencia Orchestra and a Schagerl Artist. He is also the founder of the brass quintet Art of Brass Valencia and the baroque ensemble Trio Cabanilles.
Jesús Sánchez Martínez
He studied with María Suárez Bricio and Mª Teresa Untoria, earning qualifications as a Senior Piano Teacher and Music Theory Teacher. He furthered his training with renowned professors such as Ferenc Rados, Almudena Cano, and Gonzalo Trevijano, among others.
He has performed both as a soloist and in chamber ensembles in various concert halls across Spain. He has also worked as a répétiteur in operas such as Don Pasquale and Dido and Aeneas.
With extensive experience as a dance accompanist and repetiteur, he has collaborated with several conservatories throughout the Madrid and Castilla-La Mancha regions. He is currently a professor at the Castilla-La Mancha Higher Conservatory of Music and teaches at the Faculty of Music of Alfonso X el Sabio University.
Cuenta con una dilatada trayectoria como pianista acompañando de danza, así como de repertorista en varios conservatorios de la Comunidad de Madrid y Castilla-La Mancha. Actualmente es profesor en el Conservatorio Superior de Música de Castilla-La Mancha y de la Facultad de Música de la Universidad Alfonso X Lo Sabio.