He was born in Valencia (Spain) in 1990. Since 2024, he has been a student at the Reina Sofía School of Music, in the “Zubin Mehta” Conducting Chair, with the support of Aline Foriel-Destezet, under the guidance of Professor Nicolás Pasquet, Chair Holder, as well as Jordi Francés and Miguel Ángel Cañamero. He holds scholarships from the Clicollege Foundation and the Albéniz Foundation. In 2025, he received from Her Majesty Queen Sofía the Diploma as the most outstanding student in his Chair.
He began his musical studies at the age of five in Valencia, learning piano, percussion, cello and French horn, and enrolled at the “Joaquín Rodrigo” Higher Conservatory of Valencia to study conducting with Manuel Galduf. As a cellist, he won First Prize at the Janáček Competition in Brno and was Associate Principal Cello of the Staatskapelle Weimar. He later completed a Master’s in Orchestral Conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar with Nicolás Pasquet and Eckhart Wycik, and has worked as an assistant to Dominik Beykirch, Bertrand de Billy, Stanley Dodds, Pablo González, Joana Carneiro, Jordi Francés and Nicolás Pasquet.
Winner of Second Prize at the Juventudes Musicales Conducting Competition held in Valladolid in 2025, Javier Huerta has conducted the Orquesta de Extremadura, Euskadiko Orkestra, the Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra and the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa. During the current season he will make his debut with the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta de Córdoba and Oviedo Filharmonía, and will conduct the Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra in its New Year’s Concert, the Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra as part of its Jóvenes Músicos series, and the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville.
Javier receives support and mentorship from Ibermúsica Artists.