Lucas Martínez Riaza

Born in Madrid, Spain, in 2001. From 2018 to 2024, he studied at the Reina Sofía School of Music’s Fundación Damm Oboe Chair with professor Hansjörg Schellenberger. Her Majesty Queen Sofía handed him the Diploma to the most outstanding student of his chair in the 2021-2022 academic year.

He began his music studies at Majadahonda’s Conservatory with Francisco Torrent. Meanwhile, he has attended classes by Manuel Angulo and Víctor Ánchel in Forum Musikae. He has also attended masterclasses by Jonathan Kelly, Heinz Holliger, and Pirmin Grehl (chamber music). In 2011 he performed as soloist with the La Lira de Pozuelo Symphony Band, as well as that of the orchestra of Madrid’s Universidad Politécnica. In 2016 he won Valencia’s International Bands Competition in its Honorary Section. In 2017 he was part of Madrid’s Regional Youth Orchestra.

As a student of the School, he has been a member of the Freixenet Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pablo González, Pablo Heras-Casado, Juanjo Mena and Péter Csaba; of the Sinfonietta under the baton of Johannes Kalitzke and Zsolt Nagy, and that of the Baroque Ensemble of the School, conducted by Paul Goodwin. He has also performed within the World Heritage Cities series in Salamanca and San Cristóbal de La Laguna. In 2021 he participated in the 30th anniversary tour of the School with the Freixenet Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada, with whom he performed at Madrid's Teatro Real, at Bratislava's Reduta Hall, at Budapest's Liszt Ferenc Academy and at Vienna's Musikverein.
He has also been part of the Bozza Quartet; the EY Ricercata and Zéphyros quintets; the Zéphyros Sextet as well as that of the Gonoud, Fundación Mutua Madrileña and Barroco ensembles.