“Pablo Ferrández is truly extraordinary... he produces a wonderful sound with a very gentle vibrato, both his left and right hands are unerring, and he is a true musician.”
Anne-Sophie Mutter

“Pop-idol magnetism, superb technique and exhilarating musicality reveal a sure star in the making.”
Los Angeles Times

“In Pablo Ferrández, Spain is introducing a new genius of the cello.”
Le Figaro

Pablo Ferrández is a laureate of the 15th Tchaikovsky Competition and a SONY Classical exclusive artist. He has been called a “new genius of the cello” (Le Figaro). He is a captivating artist who “has it all: technique, soul, the charisma of a soloist, expression, and charm” (El Pais).

In March 2021 on the SONY Classical label, he issued his debut album Reflections, which has been highly acclaimed by critics and earned him the 2021 Opus Klassik Award in the Young Artist of the Year category. In the autumn of 2022, he will be issuing his second album with Brahms’s Double Concerto recorded in collaboration with Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Czech Philharmonic led by Manfred Honeck, and with Clara Schumann’s Piano Trio playing alongside Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lambert Orkis.

His most important recent appearances include concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Czech Philharmonic, the Santa Cecilia Orchestra, the Seoul Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Israel Philharmonic, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, as well as residencies with the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, the Tenerife Symphony, and the Orquesta de Valencia.

In the 2022/23 season, he will be returning to the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and he is making his Salzburg Festival debut with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. He is also touring Europe with Anne-Sophie Mutter and the London Philharmonic and will be in Spain with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra led by Elim Chan. He will appear again with the Santa Cecilia Orchestra led by Daniele Gatti, the Konzerthaus Orchestra led by Andris Poga, and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra with conductor Kwamé Ryan. Debuts are also coming with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala and conductor Riccardo Chailly, the Oslo Philharmonic and Vasily Petrenko, the Tonkunstler Orchestra led by Robert Trevin, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Lina Gonzalez-Granados, and the NDR Elbephilharmonie Orchestra under the baton of Erina Yashima.

Ferrández is scheduled to appear in recitals at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Cologne Philharmonie, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Palau de la Música Catalana, and the Sociedad Filarmónica de Bilbao and at the Schloss-Elmau and Sion festivals. He will also be an artist-in-residence of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

As a soloist and chamber music player, he frequently collaborates with artists such as Anne-Sophie Mutter, Janine Jansen, Vadim Repin, Martha Argerich, Denis Kozhukhin, Gidon Kremer, Yuja Wang, Nikolai Lugansky, Beatrice Rana, Maxim Rysanov, Alice Sara Ott, Elena Bashkirova, Luis del Valle, and Sara Ferrández.

Pablo Ferrández was born in 1991 in Madrid to a musical family. At age 13 he entered the prestigious Reina Sofía School of Music, where he studied under Natalia Shakhovskaya. He later completed his studies at the Kronberg Academy under Frans Helmerson and won a scholarship from the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation. He plays the Lord Aylesford Stradivarius (1696) on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation, and the Archinto Stradivarius (1689) on a lifetime loan through the generosity of the Stretton Society.