Pablo Barragán

Clarinettist Pablo Barragán is renowned for his refined sound, coupled with his refined technical skills, his stage charisma and a boundless curiosity in the exploration of his programmes. Pablo trained in Seville with Antonio Salguero and at the Barenboim-Said Foundation with Matthias Glander.

Awarded the Prix Crédit Suisse Jeunes Solistes in 2013 and special prize at the ARD Competition in Munich in 2012, among other international awards, Pablo has worked with the Brucknerhaus Orchestra Linz, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Kölner Kammerorchester, the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, the Radio Televisión Española Symphony Orchestra, the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra and the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, among others. He has also worked with internationally renowned conductors such as Anja Bihlmaier, Thomas Dausgaard, Daniel Raiskin, Clemens Schuldt, Christoph Poppen, Paolo Carignani, Alvaro Albiach, Adrian Pravaba, Yannis Pousporikas and Gabriel Feltz.

In chamber music, his collaborations with Andrei Ionita, Noa Wildschut, Timothy Ridout, Alexey Stadler, Viviane Hagner, Kian Soltani, Stephen Waarts, Tobias Feldmann, Nathalia Milstein, Ivan Karizna, Elena Bashkirova, Beatrice Rana, Emmanuel Pahud, Liya Petrova, Marc Bouchkov, Adrien La Marca, Amadeus Wiesensee, Quatuor Modigliani, Quartetto di Cremona, Schumann Quartett, Kebyart Ensemble and many more. He is a frequent guest at festivals such as Rheingau Musikfestival, Classiche Forme, Festival Martha Argerich or Krzyzowa Music Festival, performing in prestigious halls from London's Wigmore Hall to Zurich's Tonhalle.

In the 2023/24 season he will appear as soloist with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Córdoba, in a season opening concert conducted by Álvaro Albiach and performing Carl Nielsen's Concerto Op.57, also with the Brasov Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Paul Meyer, with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga, conducted by Yannis Pousporikas, among others. Together with the Franz Lizst Chamber Orchestra, he will also perform and conduct the Chamber Concerto by K.A. Hartmann.

In the field of chamber music, he will give recitals, together with his frequent collaborators Noa Wildschut and Frank Dupree, at Konzerthaus Dortmund, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and NFM Wroclaw, among others. Other notable appearances include those at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Kölner Philharmonie, as well as at the Teatro Ristori in Verona and the Auditorium C. Pollini in Padua with the Trio Sitkovetsky and Amici della Musica in Florence with the Cremona Quartet. Pablo will also be present at international festivals such as the Chamber Music Festival in Jerusalem, Kaposfest in Hungary, Beethovenfest in Bonn, as well as at the Monteleón Festival in León and Musika-Musika in Bilbao. In spring Pablo will also join the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival Ensemble on a tour of South America.

Pablo's curiosity and creative drive are also reflected in the selection of repertoire for his album BOUNDLESS, released in February 2022, in which he has brought together the diverse sonic universes of sonatas by Weinberg, Bernstein, Poulenc and Prokofiev for the Aparté label. In his next recording for the Accentus Classics label, to be released in Spring 2024, the clarinetist joins forces with Noa Wildschut and Frank Dupree to explore the works of Paul Schoenfield, Béla Bartók, Claude Vivier and Ernest Bloch.

Since 2020 Pablo Barragán is professor of clarinet at the Academia Barenboim - Said in Seville and is regularly invited to give masterclasses all over Europe at centres such as the Escuela Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Royal Irish Academy of Music, the Conservatorio Superior de Valencia or the University of Lübeck.

Pablo is an exclusive artist of Buffet Crampon and Légère Reeds.