Spanish cellist Alejandro Gomez Pareja started playing the cello at the tender age of four years old. He has has performed as a soloist with National Youth Symphony Orchestra of Catalonia, Andrés Segovia Chamber Orchestra and Dreamers Orchestra, under the batons of Manel Valdivieso, Victor Ambroa and Ramon Torrelledo in Chamber Hall and Symphony Hall at Madrid’s National Auditorium. In 2022 he was invited by Auditori of Barcelona to perform Shostakovitch’s first cello concerto with Orquesta Sinfonica de Barcelona and Nacional de Catalunya conducted by Alondra de la Parra. At the end of the same year, he got the chance to perform the same concerto with the Orchestre de Caen conducted by Nicolas Simon.

Second prize winner of the Pau Casals International Cello competition, Alejandro is a passionate and devoted chamber musician, having collaborated with musicians like David Afkham, Marta Gulyás, Alena Baeva, Marc Coppey or Jonathan Brown (Casals Quartet). During his participation in international festivals such as Mozarteum in Salzburg, Brunswick University in Maine, Pau Casals Festival in Prades and Rutesheim Cello Akademie, he has worked with professors such as Maria Kliegel, Orfeo Mandozzi, Danjulo Ishizaka, Torleif Thedeen and Frans Helmerson, among others. He has been invited to play as part of the Pau Casals Festival in El Vendrell (Tarragona) and in Villers sur Mer Festival in Normandy in Summer 2022.

Highlights of the upcoming season include debut with the Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra and the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, two recital concerts in Washington D.C., chamber concert at Sociedad Filarmónica de Burgos, two recitals concerts in Mahon (Menorca) and participating at ICEP with Midori Goto in both Laos and Japan. 

Gomez Pareja is currently an undergraduate student at Escuela Reina Sofia in Madrid in which he studies with Jens Peter Maintz.