Clarinetist Pablo Barragán performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe, from the Philharmonie in Berlin, to the Bayerischen Rundfunk in Munich, the Laieszhalle in Hamburg, the Tonhalle Zürich, the Auditori Barcelona and to the Athenaeum in Bucharest. Pablo’s curiosity always leads him to new interpretive discoveries with orchestras such as the Sinfonieorchester Basel, Hamburger Symphoniker, the Orquesta de Radio Television Española, the Slovak Philharmonie and Chamber Orchestra, Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra, or the Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra. He collaborated with musicians such as Martha Agerich, Viviane Hagner, Kian Soltani, the Schumann and Novus Quartets, and at festivals such as Lucerne Festival, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Klosters Music, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and the Bratislava Music Festival. Together with Juan Pérez Floristán (piano) and Andrei Ioniţă (cello) he recorded a highly praised debut recording of the Brahms clarinet trios and sonatas on the Spanish label IBS in 2018.
Pablo received the Prix Credit Suisse Jeunes Solistes in 2013. He is a prizewinner in numerous international competitions including the ARD Music Competition 2012, the Juventudes Musicales de España 2011 and the European Music Competition for Youth 2011 (EMCY). Barragán studied at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid and at the Barenboim-Said Foundation in Berlin. In 2009, he went to the Basel Academy of Music, where he studied in the master class of François Benda. As a representative of D’Addario & Silverstein and as professor of the Orchestra Joven de Andalucía, he gives masterclasses in his home country to promote young talent. Since 2020, Barragán is professor of clarinet at the Barenboim-Said Foundation.