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Francisco
Garcia-Fullana was born in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) in 1990. National Prize of Violin
Pablo
Sarasate. Frst prize in the
International Music
Tournament
"TIM 2009-2010" in Verona
26th September 2010. He performed his
first recital when he was eight and when he was nine years old, he
performed
with theBalearic Islands
Symphony Orchestra. Being fifteen, Francisco made his
debut at the National
Auditory of Music in Madrid performing on the Pablo de Sarasate's
Stradivarius.
In May 2007 he gave his first recital in New York
and performed on From the Top, the
classical music radio show hosted by Christopher O'Riley for NPR. In October 2008 he played Mendelssohn
Concert in The Auditorium of the BMW Welt in Munich under Sir Colin Davis.
Last March, 6 2011,
he made his
debut appearance at the Weill
Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. He made his
debut recital in New York in 2007
.In June 2009 he performed a recital for the
Washington Performing Arts Society in Washington. In 2009 he played
Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto with the Spanish Radio Television Orchestra in Madrid.
This
concert was broadcasted by National Spanish Radio and Television. Next
January 28
he will play Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Vancouver Symphony
Orchestra.
Juilliard Bachelor of Music Degree in Violin 2011 as student of Masao Kawasaki, he is currently pursuing his Master of Music Degree at the Juilliard School studying with Mr. Donald Weilerstein and Mr Kawasaki. He began his violin studies with Mr. Bernat Pomar and Teresa Ripoll in Mallorca, when he was four years old. After with Eugen Nichita. Since 1999, with Mr. Manuel Guillén in Madrid. In June 2006, he finished his Bachelor Degree at the Royal Superior Conservatory of Music in Madrid, obtaining “A with honors (100%)”, agreed by all the members of the jury .
Selected by Juilliard
School as one of the " ten exceptional student artists" to participate
in The Starling-DeLay Symposium for Violin
Studies 2011 at Lincoln Center
in New York City.He was also selected to participate in the 13th
annual National Arts Centre Young Artists Program 2011 in Ottawa,
Ontario,
Canada, from June 6 to 25, 2011 with Maestro Pinchas Zukerman. He
has participated in AMFS from 2005 to 2011 and in Santa Barbara
Music Academy of The West 2009. He has attended courses and masterclasses with Midori, Pinchas Zukerman, Gil Shaham, Manuel Guillén, Vartan Manoogian, Masao Kawasaki, Kathleen Winkler Lorand Fényves, Nicolas Chumachenco, Mauricio Fuks, Yossi Zivoni, György Pauk, Cho-Liang-Lin , Ida Kavafian and Joseph Lin in Spain, Switzerland, USA and Canada.
Frst prize in the International Music Tournament "TIM
2009-2010" in
Verona (Italy) 26th September 2010. In March 2006,
he won the 2006
Soloist Competition for the Royal Superior Conservatory of Music in
Madrid and in September of that same year he won the National prize of
Violin “Pablo Sarasate”. In February
2011, he
obtained a First Prize in International Competition for String
Instruments in New York
As a
violinist of
the Stiftung Lyra Foundation he was selected to participate in the 2004
International Margess Gala Concert
in Switzerland, accompanied by the English pianist Charles
Owen, and in 2008 he played as soloist Mendelssohn Concert in the
BMW Welt Auditorium in Munich, under Sir Colin Davis. He played for the
concert that was given in honor of the composer, Antón
García Abril from the Comunidad de Madrid. In November
2004, he was invited as violinist for the Yamaha Meeting celebrated in
Mondariz. On the 10th of June 2005, he performed a recital in the
Spanish Ambassador’s Official Residence in Washington D.C. In the
summer, from 2006 to 2008,he studied at the Aspen Music Festival
and School (Colorado), with professor Masao Kawasaki, and in summer
2009 at Music Academy of
the West with
Kathleen Winkler . He has played with the
Aspen
Chamber Symphony, directed by David Zinman, James Conlon and Sir
Neville Marriner, among others.
On the
3rd of
October 2005, he obtained great success performing Paganini First
Violin Concerto, with the Balearic Islands Symphonic Orchestra in the
Auditorium of Palma de Mallorca. On the 28th of April 2006, he
performed a recital in the National Auditory of
Madrid with Pablo de Sarasate’s Stradivarius. The 21th
December 2006 he performed at the National Auditory of Music in
Madrid (Spain) with de Radio Spanish Television Orchestra. This concert
was broadcasted live by Spanish National Television (TVE).
Prize
María
Paula Alonso de Ruiz Martínez. Prize Miguel
Ángel Colmenero 2007.
For his trajectory as violin student and soloist the Consell of
Mallorca awarded him Priza Jaume II of the Arts, in September 2006. He made his debut
in New York last May 3rd 2007 in a
recital at the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute.
On December 12th , 2007 he performed on From the Top, the classical
music radio show hosted by Christopher O'riley for NPR. Francisco plays the violin "Ex Posselt", a violin Pressenda" 1844, from the Rare Instruments Collection of The Juilliard School of Music.
Currently Francisco is
pursuing his master of
music degree at The Juilliard School of Music, combining his studies
with
participation in different concerts and recitals. Last 14th October he
played Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto in
the opening season concert of
the Balearic Symphony Orchestra in Auditorium Palma de Mallorca, under
Salvador
Brotons. Last April,
he performed a Bach solo violin recital at
Juan March
Foundation's Concert Hall in Madrid, and next January 28t and 29h he will play Sibelius Violin Concerto with
the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
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He has performed as a soloist with the 
On
April 16th 2006,
he played for the Spanish Royal Family in the Cathedral of Palma de
Mallorca, as well as in April 2003, 2004 and 2005. In March
2004, he performed Bach’s E Major Concerto, in front of an
audience of
about 3000 people at the Kreuzkirche, Dresden (Germany). In
October 2003, he shared a concert with the Dresden Philharmonic
Orchestra in the Auditorium of Palma de Mallorca and recorded in 2002
and 2006 for the Spanish Television program “El
Conciertazo” hosted by
Fernando Argenta. In October 2002 he played in a live broadcast of the
classical music radio program “Clásicos Populares”
(National
Spanish Radio) and was invited to perform as soloist with Pablo
Sarasate’s Orchestra, in the concert that honored the great
Spanish
violinist Eduardo Hernández Asiaín, who is a specialist
on Sarasate’s pieces. Since 2003 he has played every year as an
invited
soloist for the Christmas and Easter concerts in the Cathedral of Palma
de Mallorca (Spain). 
On October
2008 he played Mendelssohn Concert in The Auditorium of the BMW
Welt in Munich with conductor Sir Colin Davis. On June 2009 he
performed a recital for the 
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Contact: francisco@franciscofullana.com Cell Phone: +34 639231733 |