Armando Yagüe

Biography:

Born in Madrid in 1999. He began  his musical education studying piano when he was five years old at Music Academy Diapason with Jesús Mª García. He started studying viola at the age of seven at the Professional Conservatoire Joaquín Turina in Madrid.  During the 2013-14 school year he moved to the Conservatoire Adolfo Salazar to study with professor Dionisio Rodríguez.  In 2015 he was  admitted in Reina Sofía College of Music in the Nobuko Imai’s viola department . Since March 2018 he is studying a Bachelor degree in Hanns Eisler Hochschule in Berlin with Tabea Zimmerman.

He has been principal viola in the Young Orchestra of the Comunidad de Madrid (JORCAM) during the season 2015/2016. Armando has received master classes from Antoine Tamestit, Atar Arad, Maxim Rysanov, Jean Phillippe Vasseur, Ashan Pillai, Nils Monkemeyer, Veronika Hagen and Alexander Zemtsov.

Since 2014 he regularly participates in Musethica under the tutelage of Avri Levitan, participating in several festivals and playing with the masters Cecilia Zilliacus, Alexander Gebert, Jakub Jackowicz, Stephan Picard, Erika Wise, Roi Shiloah, Alexander Rudin among others.

He was awarded with the Second Prize in the Junior Category of  “Santa Cecilia” 16th Piano Competition in Portugal, 2012 and Third Prize in sixth International Piano Competition ”Pequeños grandes pianistas” in Sigüenza (2015).