The Galician violinist Cibrán Sierra Vázquez (Ourense, 1979) trained at universities in Sweden (Gothenburg, B.Mus, Soloist Diploma), the United States (Oberlin College, Artist Diploma), the Netherlands (Amsterdam, M.Mus.) and Switzerland (Basel, Konzertdiplom MH), as well as at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, with professors Deborah Hamburger, Milan Vitek, Per Enoksson, Malin Broman and Keiko Wataya. In the field of performance and chamber music, his teachers Rainer Schmidt (Hagen Quartet), Walter Levin (LaSalle Quartet) and Hatto Beyerle (Alban Berg Quartet), in addition to contact with Ferenc Rados, György Kurtág and John Eliot Gardiner, have profoundly influenced his musical personality. He currently maintains an intense international activity as a performer, mainly as violinist of the Quiroga Quartet, National Music Prize 2018 and one of the most awarded and recognized string quartets of the new European generation, present in the most important halls of the international scene (from Berlin and Salzburg to New York or Los Angeles, passing through Amsterdam, London, Hamburg, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Prague, Warsaw, Stockholm, Beijing, Bogotá and Buenos Aires). In his intense activity as a chamber musician, Cibrán Sierra shares the stage with artists of the stature of Martha Argerich, Veronika Hagen, Jörg Widmann, Valentin Erben, Antje Weithaas, Guido de Neve, Eric Hoeprich, Javier Perianes and a long etc.
He is regularly invited as concertmaster and principal violinist by different symphony, chamber and historical performance groups throughout Europe. He collaborates with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE), the Revolutionary and Romantic Orchestra (ORR) and has worked with conductors of the stature of John Eliot Gardiner, Frans Brüggen, Jordi Savall, Andrew Manze, Sir Colin Davis, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Gustavo Dudamel and Aarón Zapico, among others.
In the autumn of 2020, he joined the prestigious faculty of the Mozarteum University of Salzburg as Professor of Chamber Music, after more than a decade teaching at the String Quartet and Chamber Chair of the Higher Conservatory of Music of Aragon. He frequently collaborates as a professor in the National Youth Orchestra of Spain and in ProQuartet-Paris. He gives lectures, courses and master classes in conservatories, universities and higher academic institutions in Spain, France, Holland, Sweden, Portugal, United States, Colombia… He is the author of the book “The String Quartet: Laboratory for an Illustrated Society” (Alianza Editorial, 2014), has published articles in specialized publications and general press on chamber music, cultural policy and musical education and founded and coordinated during its existence the chamber concert season “Sen Batuta” (Ourense, 2008-2013). He plays the Nicola Amati violin of 1682 “Arnold Rosé”, ceded by the heirs of Paola Modiano.