Rafael Ruibérriz de Torres Fernandéz, Isabel Goméz-Serranillos, Santiago Sampedro
Biography Rafael Ruibérriz de Torres Fernandéz, Isabel Goméz-Serranillos, Santiago Sampedro
Rafael Ruibérriz de Torres Fernandéz
A disciple of Wilbert Hazelzet, Rafael Ruibérriz de Torres (b. Seville, 1983) first came into contact with music as a chorister in the Seville Cathedral. He studied flute at the Seville Conservatory, where he was awarded the prestigious end-ofcourse prize. Given a grant by the Consejería de Cultura of the Junta de Andalucía, he went on to specialise in early flutes at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Wilbert Hazelzet. He also studied at the Royal College of Music in London with Lisa Beznosiuk. He has worked with conductors such as Michael Thomas, Daniel Barenboim, Giovanni Antonini, Jos van Immerseel, Martin Gester, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Gustav Leonhardt, Mark Minkowski, Christophe Rousset, Louis Langrée, Philippe Herreweghe, Mark Elder, Christophe Coin, Robert Levin, Enrico Onofri, Roger Norrington, Hervé Niquet and Alan Curtis, among others. He was principal flute in The Wallfisch Band and continues to play regularly with the Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla, but is primarily active in the world of 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century chamber music. For Brilliant Classics he has recorded the complete quintets for flute and string quartet by Boccherini with the Francisco de Goya string quartet, as well as the 1840 version by Francisco Asenjo Barbieri of Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ for flute and string quartet with the La Spagna ensemble, and The five Sevillian Flute Sonatas by Luis Misón. He has recently recorded C.P.E. Bach’s D minor flute concerto with the Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla and the unpublished C.F. Abel E minor Flute Concerto (AbelWV F14) with La Spagna.
Isabel Gomez-Serranillos
Born in Seville, where he began his cello studies with Manuel Tomillo at the Cristóbal de Morales Professional Conservatory. He took advanced courses with Leonardo Luckert, Dirk Vanyhuse, Álvaro Campos, Nonna Natsvlishvili, Gretchen Talbot and Gregory Bennet. She continued her studies with Ivo Cortés at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Sevilla.
Interested in the world of early music, she began studying baroque cello with Manuel Tomillo in Seville and attended courses with specialists such as Barthold Kuijken, François Fernandez, Alonso Salas, Ángel Sampedro, Peter Zajicek, Walter Reiter and Benjamin Chenier. She then moved to Belgium to specialise in historical cello performance with Alain Gervreau at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Brussels.
Specialising in the performance of music on ancient instruments, she is a member of the ensembles El Arte Mvsico, Marizápalos and The New Baroque Times (Belgium). She is also first cello of the Orquesta Barroca Conde Duque.
In 2013 he presented his first recording, as a member of El Arte Mvsico, the world's first recording of the complete VI Sonate a due Violini col suo Basso continuo (Nüremberg, 1694) by the German Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, for the VERSO label.
He has also worked with other groups such as Coro de Cámara de Sevilla, Joven Orquesta Barroca de Andalucía, Archivo 415, Conjunto Vocal e Instrumental Virelay, Ottava Rima, Clave Arcadia, Orquesta Barroca de Granada and Orquesta Barroca Cristóbal de Morales de Sevilla.
Santiago Sampedro
Born in Seville in 1988. He completed his advanced harpsichord studies under the direction of Professor María Nieves Gómez and Alejandro Casal at the Conservatorio Superior de Música Manuel Castillo (Seville) in 2013, with the qualification of Outstanding. He is founder and director of the Santa Cecilia Chamber Group and the Ensemble Santa Cecilia, as well as harpsichordist of the Ensemble Dardanus and the group Le Nouveau Concert. In 2016, he received a scholarship from the Asociación Amigos de la Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla to further his studies abroad. He is currently continuing his training at the Royal Conservatorium Koninklijk in The Hague (Holland), specialising in harpsichord, under the direction of Jacques Ogg, Kris Verhelst, Patryck Ayrton and Sungyun Cho. He has also been taught by Laure Morabito, Olivier Baumont, Pedro Gandía, Alfonso Sebastián, Aarón Zapico, Jorge Jiménez...
