Claudio Martínez Mehner

Born in Bremen (Germany) in 1970, he began his musical education at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid with professors Amparo Fuster, Pedro Lerma, and Joaquín Soriano. He combined his studies with his activities as a violist in the National Youth Orchestra of Spain, and as a violinist and harpsichordist in the chamber orchestra of the German School of Madrid. He completed his studies at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in Germany, the “Fondazione per il Pianoforte” in Como, Italy, and the “Peabody Conservatory” in Baltimore, where he studied primarily with Dmitri Bashkirov, Vitalij Margulis, and Leon Fleisher. He has attended masterclasses by Murray Perahia, Fou Ts’ong, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and Mstislav Rostropovich.
He was a finalist in the Santander International Piano Competition and has won first prizes in the international competitions “Fundación Chimay” in Belgium, “Pilar Bayona” in Zaragoza, and “Dino Ciani” in Milan. In 1992, he received the Diploma for the Most Outstanding Student of his Professorship from Her Majesty Queen Sofía.
His activity as a soloist has led him to perform throughout Europe, the United States, Russia, Central America, Korea, and Japan with orchestras such as the Munich, Moscow, Prague, and Teatro alla Scala Philharmonic Orchestras, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Radio Svizzera Italiana, Norddeutsche Rundfunk, and most of the Spanish orchestras.
He has been an assistant professor at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid with Dmitri Bashkirov. In addition, he has been an interim professor at the conservatories of Salamanca and Aragón and at the Katarina Gurska School. He is currently a professor at the Musikhochschules of Basel and Cologne and an associate professor at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid. He also teaches courses throughout Spain, Europe, Asia, and the United States.