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Cellist from Spain who attended the conservatory in Madrid and took his formal studies with Enrique Correa. In 1984, he joined the Spanish Radio and Television Orchestra, and remained with them for five years. They performed Jose Luis Turina’s “Ocnos” at Grabado en el Teatro Real on 4^th February 1988. He and Arturo Tamayo co-founded the Spanish Academy for Modern Music. In 1993, he and Margarita Lamberti interpreted Gaspar Cassado Moreu’s “Sonata nello stile antico spagnuolo”.

He relocated to The Netherlands and has since been a member of Camerata Amsterdam, The Holland Wind Players, the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra.

In 1994, Camerata Amsterdam unveiled European Treasures Vol. 1: Josef Myslivecek. The Netherlands Radio Symphony and Orchestra and Groot Omroepkoor released Olivier Messiaen 4: Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ in 1994. On 27^th October 2002, Krzysztof Penderecki conducted the Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra in a program that included his own “Concerto for cello and orchestra nr. 2” (with Arturo as soloist), Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Symphony nr. 7”, and Witold Lutoslawski’s “Trauermusik”. In February 2003, The Holland Wind Players were invited by the Fond du Lac Concert Association in Wisconsin, U.S., for a couple days of music, food, and drink.

Arturo revisited his roots in April 2006 when he joined Arturo Tamaya and Jornadas de Musica Contemporanea de Cordoba for a concert of music by Luis de Pablo and Igor Stravinsky. In 2007, he was the featured soloist on the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic and Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra compilation, Julius Rontgen: Complete Cello Concertos. The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, along with Groot Omroepkoor and Vlaams Radio Koor, reprised Olivier Messiaen’s La Transfiguration de notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ on 27^th September 2008. Fittingly, Arturo and the Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus made the cut on the anthology, Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992.

On 28^th May 2010, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, in tandem with Groot Omroepkoor and the Nationaal Kinderkoor, performed Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem.

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