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BIO

Alongside his work as a symphonic percussionist, collaborating with orchestras such as ONE, ORCAM, OSM and OCG, and his work as a teacher since 2021 as Professor of Percussion at the RCSMVE (the institution where he studied his higher degree in Percussion under Tomás Arboledas), he focuses his professional activity on chamber music and the various ensembles in the projects listed below.

VAN3uard Percussion since 2016, U Circle Breakers since 2018, Clammy (with Óscar Escudero, Belenish Moreno and Oriol Parés) since 2020, Quadraphonics (with Víctor López, Javier Herreros and Valentín Rejano) since 2021 and SoundsWood (with Marta Fitzisimmons) since 2023.

Together with Agustín Jiménez and Víctor López, he founded VAN3uard Percussion, a percussion trio committed to innovating the concert format. The formats they currently perform are: DR3aming and RADIX.

In contemporary music, his participation as a guest member of Neopercusión in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 is worth highlighting, alongside Juanjo Guillem and Rafa Gálvez, with whom he went on to study the Master’s in Performance at Alfonso X El Sabio University (UAX).

In the world of contemporary music and jazz, in recent years he has shared the stage with Ernesto Aurignac in the projects he leads as a composer and saxophonist, performing with musicians such as Michael Olivera, Reinier Elizarde “El Negrón” and Moisés P. Sánchez, among others.

As a soloist, his awards include the Soloists Competition of the Granada Higher Conservatory 2017 (RCSMVE – 1st Prize) and 1st Prize at the Young Performers Competition of the Granada Provincial Council. With VAN3uard Percussion he has won 3rd prize at the Catarroja International Percussion Competition and 2nd prize at the Antón García Abril International Chamber Music Competition (2018). VAN3uard Percussion was also a finalist ensemble at the IPCL 2022 in Luxembourg.

néstor
pamblanco

BIO