Paola Caballero - Violin
Paola Caballero has now chosen to return to Boston after spending more than a decade in Barcelona performing as member of the Chamber Orchestra de Cadaques and the Orquesta Sinfonica de Barcelona y Nacional de Catalunya, (OBC). She has performed with renowned artists including Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, Janine Jansen, Isabelle Faust, Ray Chen, Lang Lang, Angela Gheorgiu, Placido Domingo, Jonas Kauffmann and has also worked under the baton of Giaandrea Noseda, Semyon Bychkov, Elihau Inbal, Vasily Petrenkov and John Adams to name a few.
Aside from numerous tours around Europe finest concert halls with both Orquestra de Cadaques and Orquestra de Barcelona, Ms. Caballero has made numerous recordings with both ensembles and can be seen on Medici.TV, one of the world's leading classical music streaming platform.
As a chamber musician, Paola has also collaborated with the Barcelona based highly acclaimed contemporary group, 'BCN 216' and also founded the Barcelona Arts Quartet, a group dedicated to the performance of new music. Prior to relocating to Barcelona, during her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, in London, Ms. Caballero founded the Esperanto Trio, giving their first public performance at St. James Church in Piccadilly London. The group also performed in a live B.B.C. broadcast at the Barbican Centre as part of the New Music Festival hosted by the B.B.C. Symphony.
Ms. Caballero is very happy to be back in Boston. As an educator, she divides her time between the Lexington Chamber Music Center, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and is Music Director of Symphonia at Phillips Exeter Academy. She has also served on faculty for the past eight seasons at Point Counterpoint Music Festival and has recently joined the faculty at Lyra Music Festival. Upcoming masterclasses include at the Conservatorio Nacional de Music in the Dominican Republic and will be serving on panel discussions at the Puerto Rican Summer Music Festival.
Paola Caballero can be seen performing with the Grammy Award-winning Boston Modern Orchestra Project, (BMOP/sound), Odyssey Opera, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Ballet and Bach, Beethoven and Brahms Society. She is looking forward to being the featured artist with the Boston Public Quartet as part of a selected ensemble to perform at the Florence Price Festival this August.
In other genres of music, Paola has performed with Michael Buble, Chaka Khan, Madeleine Peyroux, Antony and the Johnsons, Bjork, Joni Mitchell, Andrea Bocelli and Father John Misty at venues including Sonar, Electronic Music Festival, Primavera Sound and the Jazz Festival at the Palau de la Musica Catalana.
Ms. Caballero holds a Postgraduate Diploma from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as well as both Masters and Bachelor Degrees from the New England Conservatory in Boston. She has studied with David Takeno, Masuko Ushioda, Eric Rosenblith, Lucy Chapman, and has worked with Lorand Fenyves and Erika Raum at the Royal Conservatory, the institution that sponsored the use of the1686 Nicolo Amati instrument.