Carlos Ramos Castro

Born in Segorbe, Spain, in 1999. From 2021 to 2023, he studied at the Reina Sofía School of Music’s Fundación Damm Oboe Chair with professor Hansjörg Schellenberger.

He began his piano studies at the age of 6 but he later changed to oboe. He studied at the Segorbe Musical Society with Daniel Gomez Asensio, at Segorbe’s Alto Palancia Conservatory with Juan Francisco Plasencia Civera, earning the End-of-Degree Extraordinary Award in 2017, and at the Music Conservatory of Castilla-La Mancha with Aitor Llimerá Galduf. He has also attended improvement courses by great professors such as Francisco Salanova, Bartolome Raga, Vicente Llimerá, Washington Barella, Miriam Pastor, Ivan Podyomov, Salvador Barbera, as well as masterclasses by Joan Enric Lluna and Heinz Holliger, among others.

He has been a member of Barcelona’s Young Symphony Orchestra, the Youth Orchestra of the Generalitat Valenciana and the Youth Orchestra of Castilla-La Mancha. He has been recently accepted into the list of instrumentalists of the National Youth Orchestra of Spain and has performed with Albacete’s Municipal Band.

As a student of the School, he has been part of the Freixenet Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Juanjo Mena; the Fundación EDP Camerata, conducted by Paul Goodwin; the Sinfonietta, conducted by Zsolt Nagy and the Françaix Ensemble, the Cosan Quintet and the Fundación Mutua Madrileña Ensemble.