Javier Comesaña

Described by the "Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung" as ‘an intelligent and open-minded musician, capable of finding new ways of making music’, Javier Comesaña is the winner of the sixth edition of the Jascha Heifetz International Competition in Vilnius and of the Prinz von Hessen Prize awarded by the Kronberg Academy in June 2021. He also holds the title of winner of the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition. In December 2024, he was awarded the Medal of Honour by the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation Spain, in recognition of his career.
His main teachers were Yuri Managadze and Sergey Teslya. He subsequently studied with Marco Rizzi at the Reina Sofía Higher School of Music in Madrid and with Antje Weithaas at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. He has also attended masterclasses given by, amongst others, Mihaela Martin, Miriam Fried, Silvia Marcovici and Christoph Poppen. In 2019 and 2021, she was awarded the title of Most Deserving Student of her department by Her Majesty Queen Sofia.
As a chamber musician, he trained with Heime Müller, Marta Gulyás and Günter Pichler at the Madrid Chamber Music Institute. He has been invited to perform at numerous prestigious festivals, venues and institutions, such as the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, the Unione Musicale in Turin, the Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti in Rome, the Associazione Scarlatti in Naples, the Lucca Classica festival, the BBVA Foundation’s Musical Season, the Spanish Music Festival in Cadiz, the Nights in the Gardens of the Real Alcázar, and the Musical Autumn of Soria. In 2021, he received a diploma as a member of the Most Outstanding Piano Ensemble from Her Majesty Queen Sofia, for his performance of Schubert’s Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, ‘The Trout’. Given his interest in chamber music, he is currently also a violinist with the Michelangeli Trio, with whom he regularly performs in Italy and Germany.