Born in Valencia, Josep Puchades i Escribà began his studies in his hometown, continuing his training at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid, Yale University (USA), where he obtained a Master of Music and an Artist Diploma, as well as a postgraduate degree at the Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), studying with Luis Llácer, Jesse Levine, Tokyo String Quartet and Thomas Riebl respectively.
Passionate about chamber music, he is currently the violist of the Quiroga Quartet, National Music Prize 2018, with which he regularly performs in the main concert halls, cycles and international festivals, also making award-winning recordings. He combines his work as a performer with teaching, having been a professor at the R.C.S.M. of Madrid and the C.S.M. of Aragón. He is currently a viola professor at Musikene, the Higher School of Music of the Basque Country, and is invited to teach classes at various conservatories and youth orchestras.
Of his orchestral activity, it is worth mentioning his ten years as a member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Lucerne Festival Orchestra, as well as co-principal viola of the Orquesta de la Comunidad Valenciana, Palau de les Arts. He regularly performs with conductors of the stature of Claudio Abbado, Seiji Ozawa, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Metha, Valery Gergiev, J.E. Gardiner, Andris Nelsons, Pierre Boulez and Daniel Harding, among others. In addition, he has collaborated as guest principal viola in orchestras such as the Orchestre d’Auvergne, Orquesta Nacional de España, Orquesta Sinfónica de RTVE, Camerata Salzburg, Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI and Camerata Bern.
Awarded in several international competitions, including 3rd prize in the II Vienna International Competition 2004 and 1st prize in the Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition, New Haven (USA) 2002, he has also received the Yale Alumni Association Prize 2003. As a soloist, he has performed with orchestras such as the Vienna Radio Orchestra, Yale Philharmonia, Orquesta de Camara Reina Sofia and the Joven Orquesta de la Comunitat Valenciana.
He has been invited to participate, both in Europe and the United States, in important festivals including Tanglewood, Lucerne, Schleswig-Holstein, Norfolk, IMS Prussia Cove, Seiji Ozawa International Academy and has collaborated in chamber music with artists such as Martha Argerich, Julian Rachlin, Veronika Hagen, Valentin Erben, Gary Hoffman, Clemens Hagen, Kolja Blacher, Antje Weithass and the Jerusalem, Doric, Voce and Dudok quartets.