Jorge Giménez, cello
Jorge Giménez is an accomplished cellist currently studying at the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel as an Artist in residence in the class of Gary Hoffman and Jeroen Reuling. In June of 2023 he graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Master’s Degree in Violoncello Performance from the Koniklijk Conservatorium Brussel with Jeroen Reuling and received the “Georges Octors Prize of the City of Brussels”.
Jorge holds two Bachelor Degrees from Conservatorio Superior de Música de las Islas Baleares (CSMIB), Spain, and the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, where he studied with Emmanuel Bleuse and Amit Peled, respectively. He graduated from both institutions commending his performance with the “James Winship Lewis Memorial Prize in Performance” from Peabody and the “Extraordinary End of Degree Award” from CSMIB. Since then, he is invited every year as a guest professor by the string department of the CSMIB to give masterclasses to the violoncello students. During his studies in Spain, Jorge also worked closely with Maria de Macedo.
Jorge has had the opportunity to work with several great cellists and musicians, such as Gary Hoffman, Frans Helmerson, Marc Coppey, Jens-Peter Maintz, Sol Gabetta, Daniel Müller-Schott, Jeroen Reuling, Antoine Lederlin, Amit Peled, Lluis Claret, Emmanuel Feldman, Adrian Brendel, Kyril Zlotnikov, Paul Badura-Skoda, Christoph Henkel, Clive Brown, Guy Danel, Cecylia Barczyk, María Kliegel, Claudio Bohórquez, Troels Svanne, Alban Gerhardt, Amparo Lacruz, Asier Polo, among others.
Throughout his career, he has been awarded in national and international competitions, among them the Juventudes Musicales de Madrid Scholarship award (2019), 1st prize at Mount Vernon Virtuosi Cello Competition (2020), 2nd prize at the “Gustav Mahler Prize Cello Competiton 2021”, 2nd prize at Park Na competition for violin and cello (2021). In July of 2024 he has been one of the three finalists of the “Prémio Internacional Suggia Casa da Musica” competition, held in Porto.
Since the age of 13, Jorge has performed solo with orchestras, such as Orquestra Simfònica de les Illes Balears, Academia 1830, Orchestra Sinfonica Do Porto and Ensemble Malibran. In December of 2021 he went on tour in the United States as a soloist with the Mount Vernon Virtuosi where he performed the Concerto in D by Franz Josef Haydn.
Jorge has participated in many music festivals including the first edition of the Festival for Young Talents in Cannes, the Deia International Music Festival, the Schiermonnikoog Festival, the Kronberg Academy’s Cello Festival, the Festival Resonances in Belgium, and the Festival Pablo Casals in Prades where he performed a solo recital in tribute to Pau Casals on the 50th anniversary of his death. Jorge is currently playing on a cello made by Francesco Stradivarius (1742) generously loaned by the Gutman Collection.