About
Born in Oviedo in 1986, Jorge Monte de Fez is Trompa Soloist of the Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and of the Philharmonic Orchestra della Scala. He is also a member, since 2010, of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a project founded by Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said.
Born in Oviedo (Spain), he begins his studies in the Conservatorio Profesional de Música of the same city. In 2008 he enters the National Youth Orchestra of Spain (JONDE) and in 2011 the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO).
In 2008 he is also awarded his degree in music (Grado Superior), with high honors, at “Musikene” (Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco), under the guidance of Prof. Rodolfo Epelde.
From 2008 to 2010 he studied at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid, where his professor Radovan Vlatkovic chose him to be awarded with a full scholarship as the “Most Outstanding Student of the Horn Studio ”. He received also artistic encouragement from such renowned musicians as Hermann Baumann, Radek Baborak, or Richard Watkings among others.
During 2011-2012 he was a scholar of the Berliner Staatskapelle under Daniel Barenboim.
He has collaborated as Solo-Horn with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Berliner Staatskapelle, Münchner Philharmoniker, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Bamberger Symphoniker, Norddeutsches Philharmonie de Rostock, Komische Oper Berlin, Orchestra Filarmónica della Scala, Orchestre de Chambre de Caen, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Orquesta de la Comunidad Valenciana – Palau de les Arts, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, playing under the baton of Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim, Claudio Abbado, Gustavo Dudamel, Daniel Harding, Simon Rattle, Valery Gergiev, Daniele Gatti o Ricardo Chailly among others.
He has performed as soloist the concerto for two horns and orchestra by A. Vivaldi, concerto no.4 by W.A.Mozart, Concerto no.1 by R. Strauss and the Schumann´s Konzerstück.
Since the year 2012 he is Solo-Horn of the Teatro alla Scala Milano, and from 2010 of the West Eastern Divan, both conducted by Maestro Daniel Barenboim.