Juan Elvira Marquez

Juan Elvira Márquez (Granada, 1998) is a Spanish pianist with a growing international career, recognized for both his interpretative sensitivity and artistic versatility.
He began piano studies at the age of six with Andrei Reznik, with whom he trained for over a decade. Between 2015 and 2019, he studied for his Piano Degree at the Conservatory of Badajoz with Alexander Kandelaki, graduating with top honors at the Final Concert and receiving the Special End-of-Studies Prize. He then moved to Germany to study at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg (HfMT) with Aleksandr Madzar, where he completed both his Master’s and Postgraduate Studies with the highest marks in June 2025.

He has furthered his training through masterclasses with leading figures such as Mikhail Voskresensky, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Stefania Neonato, Klaus Hellwig, Irina Plotnikova, Claudio Martínez Mehner, Luis Fernando Pérez, and Iván Martín, among many others. He has participated in international academies in France, Austria, Russia, Hungary, and Spain, including the Summer Academy of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow (2013), where he gave a recital at the We gather friends festival, and the prestigious Salzburg Mozarteum Summer Academy (2017), where he was selected to perform in the Wiener Saal.

Throughout his career, he has performed in distinguished venues: in January 2019, he played Schumann’s Piano Concerto op. 54 at the Palacio de Congresos in Badajoz; in 2020, he was invited to the Coherence cycle at Hamburg’s Klangmanufaktur and the Stars of Tomorrow series in Harburg, and performed Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto with the HfMT Orchestra. In 2021, he gave a recital at the Casa del Almirante in Granada, and in 2022 he took part in the Clab Festival at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. That same year, he made his Paris debut at Le Regard du Cygne and gave recitals at the Casa de la Cultura in Armilla, the Cité des Arts in Paris, and the Salon Écritoire in Berlin.

In 2023 and 2024, his schedule intensified with performances at the Frauen Finanzamt Hamburg, the Parque de las Ciencias in Granada, and a chamber music tour in Norway with the Hamburgisches Trio. He also premiered works by young composers alongside Carmen Callejas at the Junge Künstler Festival Bayreuth, where he was a scholar of the Wagner Society of Madrid.

In 2025, he reached three major milestones: he performed Mozart’s C minor Concerto with the HfMT Orchestra, gave his acclaimed graduation recital at the Laeiszhalle, and recorded for radio with the Hamburg Staatsorchester the C minor Concerto by Beethoven and the D minor Concerto by Bach. In July, he premiered works by Chilean composer Martín Donoso Vera at Hamburg’s Tonali Saal and took part in the city’s Pride opening, performing works by Ravel.

His career has been recognized in numerous competitions: he received the Special Prize for the best interpretation of Albéniz at the Concours International d’Île de France (2017), was a finalist at Intercentros Melómano (2017), the Robert Schumann International Piano Competition in Zwickau (2021), and Sounds of the Land of Fire in Vienna (2022). That same year he won Second Prize at the Rising Stars Grand Prix in Berlin. He has also been awarded the Gold Hands Prize and Best Schumann Prize at the Carles & Sofia Piano Competition, and prizes at competitions such as Franz Liszt Center, Great Piano Masters, Aachen Piano MozArte, Orbetello, Paris Debussy, and ArtePiano in Italy.

Alongside his performing career, Juan is deeply committed to pedagogy. He lives in Berlin, where he teaches at the renowned Musikschule Schostakovich, and in 2023/24 was also a lecturer at the HfMT Hamburg. Since 2022, he has been the founder, artistic director, and artist-in-residence of the Festival Jóvenes Intérpretes de Música Clásica de Armilla (Granada), actively supporting emerging talent.

Upcoming Highlights:

• Antón García Abril Competition (Teruel), September 2025.

• Solo recital at the Cité des Arts, Paris, November 2025.

• March–April 2026: Jury member and artistic director of the Festival de Jóvenes Intérpretes de Armilla, with several solo and chamber concerts.

• April 2026: Tour with the Orchestra of the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, performing Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto across Andalusia.