Juan Barahona

Born in 1989, he began his piano studies in Oviedo at the age of 6 with Professor Nariné Karapetyan.
From 2008 to 2013, he was a student at the Reina Sofía School of Music, studying piano in the Santander Bank Foundation Piano Chair with Professor Galina Eguiazarova, and chamber music with Professor Márta Gulyás. He also received guidance and supervision from Maestro Dmitri Bashkirov. In 2010 and 2012, he received the award for most outstanding student in his chair from Her Majesty Queen Sofía, and in 2011, the award for most outstanding chamber group.
Between 2013 and 2016, he completed a “Master of Performance” and an “Artist Diploma” with distinction at the Royal College of Music in London, in the class of Professor Dimitri Alexeev. Subsequently, between 2016 and 2018, he continued his training at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna, completing a “Postgraduate Degree in Interpretation” with Maestra Lilya Zilberstein.
He currently combines extensive artistic activity with teaching as a Piano Accompanist Professor in the BBVA Foundation Viola Chair of Professor Nobuko Imai and in the Bassoon Chair of Maestro Gustavo Núñez, at the Reina Sofía School of Music (Madrid).
His performances in Spain (National Music Auditorium of Madrid, Palau de la Música Catalana), United Kingdom (Wigmore Hall), Romania (Bucharest Athenaeum), China, Moldova, Ecuador, Jordan, Germany, Switzerland and Austria are noteworthy.
He has received master classes from professors Zoltan Kocsis, Menahem Pressler, Emanuel Ax, Ferenc Rados, Eldar Nebolsin, Pavel Gililov, among others.
He also has numerous recordings made for Radio Nacional de España, Catalunya Música and Bayerischer Rundfunk.