Jorge Giménez, cello

Born in Palma de Mallorca in 2001, Jorge Giménez began playing the cello at the age of four. In 2019, he entered the Conservatori Superior de Música de les Illes Balears (CSMIB), where he studied with Emmanuel Bleuse, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Cello as well as the institution’s Extraordinary End-of-Degree Award. During his formative years in Spain, he also studied with Maria de Macedo (2011–2019).

In August 2019, he moved to Baltimore to continue his studies with Amit Peled at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. He completed his training there in 2021 and received the James Winship Lewis Memorial Prize in Performance, awarded “for outstanding achievement and contribution to the musical and academic life of Peabody.” During this period, he was also awarded the Johns Hopkins University Musical Leadership Excellence Scholarship.

His years of study provided him with the opportunity to work with many distinguished cellists and musicians, including Gary Hoffman, Frans Helmerson, Marc Coppey, Jens-Peter Maintz, Daniel Müller-Schott, Jeroen Reuling, Antoine Lederlin, Amit Peled, Lluís Claret, Emmanuel Feldman, Adrian Brendel, Kyril Zlotnikov, Paul Badura-Skoda, Christoph Henkel, Clive Brown, Guy Danel, Cecylia Barczyk, María Kliegel, Claudio Bohórquez, Troels Svane, Alban Gerhardt and Amparo Lacruz.

Throughout his career, he has received numerous prizes in national and international competitions, including the Juventudes Musicales de Madrid Scholarship (2019), First Prize at the Mount Vernon Virtuosi Cello Competition (2020), First Prize at the KPIMC (2020), Second Prize at the Gustav Mahler Cello Competition (2021), and Second Prize at the Park Na Violin and Cello Competition (2021).

Since 2015, Jorge has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the Balearic Islands Symphony Orchestra (OSIB) and the Mount Vernon Virtuosi (MVV). As a soloist, he has performed Haydn’s Cello Concertos in C major and D major, as well as Dvořák’s Cello Concerto. In 2021, following his victory at the 2020 Mount Vernon Virtuosi Competition, he embarked on a four-concert tour performing Haydn’s Cello Concerto in D major with the MVV. He has also taken part in the European Music Foundation’s Stringsfest and the Enrique Granados Festival.

Since 2017, he has been a guest artist at the International Music Festival of Deià, where he regularly performs alongside renowned chamber musicians and ensembles and appears in cello and piano recitals. Since 2021, he has served as a guest professor in the Strings Department of the CSMIB, giving masterclasses to cello students. In 2022, he performed at the inaugural Cannes Young Talents Festival and also took part in the Schiermonnikoog Young Talents Festival and the Kronberg Academy Cello Festival.

Since 2023, he has been a guest artist at the Pau Casals Festival.

Since September 2022, Jorge Giménez has been an Artist in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, under the direction of Gary Hoffman.

Last updated: 8 June 2026