Venues
Carnegie Hall · Wigmore Hall · Cadogan Hall · Concertgebouw · Konzerthaus Berlin · Wiener Konzerthaus · Auditorio Nacional · Palau de la Música.
About
A career shaped across the stage, repertoire and musical thought.
Cristo Barrios is a clarinettist, chamber musician, recording artist, researcher and teacher. His trajectory brings together international performance, new music and higher education within a single artistic career.
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An international career built
from the stage.
Recitals, chamber music, new music and recordings establish the scale of a sustained career without turning biography into an inventory.
Chamber music
Brodsky · Arditti · Endellion · Elias · Minetti · Fauré Quartett.
New music
Direct work with Einojuhani Rautavaara, Helmut Lachenmann, Kaija Saariaho, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Pierre Boulez, among others.
Recordings
Recordings for Divine Art, Métier, IBS Classical and Signum Classics, among other labels.
Mariinsky Orchestra · Valery Gergiev
World premiere of Nino Díaz’s Second Clarinet Concerto at the Canary Islands Music Festival.
Academic and institutional profile
An academic trajectory that accompanies —without replacing— artistic practice.
Here, research and teaching function as biographical facts: they verify one dimension of the career and point to the pages where that work is developed in depth.
Research centred on creation, interpretative freedom and sounding realisation.
Institutional distinction from the Royal Academy of Music.
Professor in higher education and advanced performance work.
Teaching and transmission
A teaching activity developed
in higher-education contexts.
Alongside his regular work in Madrid, Cristo has given masterclasses at leading European institutions.
International masterclasses
Selected European institutions where he has taught as a guest.
Amsterdam ConservatoryAmsterdam
Sibelius AcademyHelsinki
Liszt AcademyBudapest
ZHdKZürich
Strasbourg ConservatoireStrasbourg
Norwegian Academy of MusicOslo
Hochschule für Musik KölnCologne
Biography and professional materials
The full trajectory, in the format appropriate to each context.
Biographies, photographs, selected CV and materials for institutions and the press are organised in a separate section.