Pre-Christmas violin presentation

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At the invitation of Prof. Christoph Schickedanz, Spanish violin professor Juan Salvador Raya will teach students in the HfMT violin classes as a guest professor on December 11 and 12.

Born in Spain, he has been at the Katarina Gurska School of Music Madrid since 2020, a full professor at the conservatory in his home city of Granada, and has been a guest professor at the conservatories in Vienna (MdW "Fritz Kreisler" Institute, exchange with Berlin concertmaster Prof. Lothar Strauss), Cologne, Weimar, Würzburg, Nuremberg and others. His Andalusian students are now prizewinners at competitions, have been recognized internationally for further studies, e.g. with mentors from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra as well as with concertmasters from the Leipzig Gewandhaus or Bavarian Radio, and have thus been elected 1st concertmasters of German university orchestras.

Juan Salvador Raya received lessons in Granada from Tamara Amirkhanian, teacher of star violinist María Dueñas, among others, and subsequently studied with Axel Wilczok (Staatskapelle Berlin) and Prof. Ulrich Beetz at the Barenboim Academy and Franz Liszt Academy of Music. He has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and concertmaster with artists such as García Asensio, Miguel Colom, Sabine Meyer, Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, Alexander Vitlin, Gerhard Schulz and others. Although he had the opportunity to begin an orchestral career with the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra after his studies, he decided to work as a teacher, initially in Germany. Some of his students from this time became national competition winners, while he received invitations as a juror at the state competition.

Prof. Raya is particularly interested in the technical training of young musicians and its connection to performance. Prof. Zack, mentor to violinist Tobias Feldmann, among others, wrote about his methods: "I was impressed by the level as well as the systematically sound and highly professional teaching of Mr. Raya." His online advice was requested by radio orchestra academy members, prizewinners of international competitions and alumni of Berlin music academies, for example.