Guillem Gràcia Soler

Born in Barcelona, Spain, in 2005. Since 2019, he studies at the Reina Sofía School of Music’s Aline Foriel-Destezet Cello Chair with Professor Jens Peter Maintz. He has been granted scholarships by Fundación Banco Sabadell and Fundación Albéniz and plays with a Baroque cello bow, loaned as an instrument scholarship by the latter.

He began his cello studies at the age of six and from 2015 onwards, he was a student of Anna Mora at the Grupcello.cat, which she conducts. He later continued his training at Tarrasa’s Conservatory with Lluís Heras and studied within the Cassadó Chair of the Marshall Academy.
He has attended classes by Lluís Claret and Iagoba Fanlo, and has participated in masterclasses by Pablo Ferrández, Michel Strauss, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Asier Polo, Kian Soltani, Ralf Gothóni, Oliver Wille, and Alban Gerhardt.

During 2018, he attended Amsterdam’s Cello Biennale as a guest student. He has been awarded first prize at the 8th String Competition in Barcelona, special prize at the BBVA Music Awards to Individual Talent, second and audience prize at the 3rd RC Marbella Musical Competition, later transformed into City of Estepona Young Performers Competition, absolute prize at the MiN International Music Competition (Norway), and first prize at the Intercentros Melómano Competition, where he was also awarded third prize (higher degree category) in 2021.

As a student of the School, he has performed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, among other venues, and with the Freixenet Orchestra, conducted by David Afkham, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Péter Csaba and Sir András Schiff, and with the Fundación EDP Camerata, conducted by Paul Goodwin. He has been a member of the Bain Satie Trio, of the Ramales Quartet, as well as of the Casa de la Moneda Scarlatti, Ambage and Management Solutions Tchaikovsky ensembles. He is currently part of the Lili Boulanger Trio.