Willmer Jesús Torres Martínez

Born in Estado Miranda, Venezuela, in 1999. From 2018 to 2023, he studied at the Reina Sofía School of Music’s Bassoon Chair with professor Gustavo Núñez. Her Majesty Queen Sofía handed him the Diploma to the most outstanding student of his chair in the 2022-2023 academic year.

He began his music education at Venezuela’s National System of Youth Orchestras and Choirs. In 2012 he entered the Simón Bolívar Conservatory of Music and the Latin American Academy of Bassoon with Omar Ascanio. He has attended masterclasses by Henning Trog, George Sakakeeny, Dag Jensen (during the Santander Encounter of Music and Academy), Matthew Wilkie, Mor Biron, and Joan Enric Lluna.

He has been part of the Youth and Children’s national symphony orchestras of the Teresa Carreño and Simón Bolívar, with whom he has performed Carl Maria von Weber’s Concerto for bassoon and orchestra in F major, the Andante e rondo ongarese, as well as concerts of Hummel and Mozart. Recently, in 2023, he has performed with the Extremadura's Orchestra. He has toured several countries, including Japan (Tokyo), China (Beijing and Shanghai), Mexico (City of Mexico) and Austria (Salzburg Festival, 2013).

As a student of the School, he has been a member of the Freixenet Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Víctor Pablo Pérez, Plácido Domingo and Péter Eötvös, and he has been part of the Sinfonietta under the baton of Johannes Kalitzke. He has also performed within the World Heritage Cities series in Salamanca and at the Casa Museo de la Moneda in Madrid. He has also been part of the Bozza Quartet, the EY Ricercata and the Cosan quintets, the Strauss Trio, and of the O Globo, the Gounod, the Fundación Mutua Madrileña and the Cosan ensembles.