Award for HfMT organists

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Victor Baena, concert exam student under Prof. Pieter van Dijk and Prof. Wolfgang Zerer, won second prize and the prize for the best performance of a Spanish composition at the "Francisco Salinas" organ competition in Burgos

In connection with this competition success, Victor Baena received invitations to give concerts in Burgos, Avila, Santiago and Barcelona. In June 2019, he won first prize at the Schnitger Organ Competition in Alkmaar, the Netherlands.

Biography

Víctor Baena was born in 1995. He began studying guitar at the age of 12 with Enrique del Rosal and piano with Carmen Rubio Fominaya at the Arturo Soria Music Conservatory in Madrid.
He later became interested in the interpretation of early music, especially music written for organ and harpsichord, so he decided to study organ with Anselmo Serna, harpsichord and basso continuo with Denise De La-Herrán and chamber music with Jesús Sánchez.
He attended master classes for organ and harpsichord with Montserrat Torrent, José Luis González Uriol, Andrés Cea Galán Lorenzo Ghielmi, Jacques Ogg, Elisabeth Joyé , Menno van Delft and Bernard Foccroulle.

Víctor Baena has given many concerts in various countries such as Spain, Germany, Holland, Italy and Belgium. In 2017, Víctor participated as a continuo player in concerts in the Marienkirche Stralsund, the Lutherse kerk of The Hague and the Muziekgebouw aan 't Ij (Amsterdam) as part of the project Pracht en Praal of the Sweelinck Baroque Orchestra of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam under the direction of Jos van Veldhoven.
Víctor completed his bachelor and master studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Pieter van Dijk, Matthias Havinga and Louis Robilliard. At the same conservatory he took lessons in basso continuo and improvisation with Miklós Spányi and completed his clavichord studies with Menno van Delft.

Victor Baena is currently studying concert organ at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama with Prof. Pieter van Dijk and Prof. Wolfgang Zerer.