Biography Pau Codina Masferrer : Mark Derudder • Eugene Lee • Pau Codina Masferrer • Adam Newman

Pau Codina was born in 1988 in Barcelona (Spain) and began studying the cello at the age of five with Eulalia Subirà. Other teachers to date have included Ivan Chiffoleau, Daniel Grosgurin, Peter Thiemann and Louise Hopkins.

Pau is presently studying at the RNCM with Professor Gary Hoffman having graduated from the Yehudi Menuhin School in 2006, and from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with first class honours in 2010. He has also participated in several public masterclasses with teachers such as Lluís Claret, Anner Bylsma, Frans Helmerson, Mstislav Rostropovich and Steven Isserlis.

Over the course of his career so far he has taken part in several International Music Festivals such as the Manchester Cello & Chamber Music Festival and the Kronberg Cello Festival. He has also performed extensively throughout Spain, England and Germany, in venues such as the Wigmore Hall, the Royal Festival Hall, the Purcell Room, the Pau Casals Auditorium, and the Palau de la Musica Catalana Concert Hall in Barcelona. Further to this, he has appeared as a soloist with several orchestras such as the Barcelona Sinfonietta, the Empordà Chamber Orchestra, the Andorra Chamber Orchestra, the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, and the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra of Budapest.

Away from the concert platform, Pau has won several competitions and awards, such as the MBF’s Guilhermina Suggia award 2004 & 2007 and the Geofrey Shaw Scholarship, the Kronberg Cello Festival Schlosskonzert prize, and both third prize as well as the Critique’s award in the Primer Palau Competition in Barcelona.