Marcos García Vaquero
Teacher

Marcos García Vaquero

Born in Huelva in 1988, Marcos García began his musical studies at the age of 8 with the Municipal Band of Punta Umbría under the tutelage of Professor Francisco Escobar García, with whom he completed his intermediate studies at the Professional Conservatory of Music in Huelva. In June 2011, he graduated from the Higher Conservatory of Music of the Basque Country “Musikene” with professors Luis González Martí and Javier Simó. In 2012, he moved to Berlin to continue his training at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin with professors William Forman and Martin Wagemann.

He was a student at the Barenboim-Said Academy of Orchestral Studies with Professor Rainer Auerbach and has received advanced training in his specialty from trumpeters such as Frits Damrow, Ole Edward Antonsen, Gábor Tarkövi, Sergei Nakariakov, Mark Inouye, Reinhold Friedrich, Tamás Velenczei, Jeroen Berwaerts, Eric Aubier, Bo Nilsson, Francisco Pacho Flores, Benjamín Moreno, Manuel Blanco, Franck Pulcini, among others.

In the orchestral field, he has been a member of orchestras such as the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester (Principal 2014, 2015), EUYO, Pacific Music Festival (2013 and 2014), NJO, OJEX, OJA. He has collaborated with professional orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berliner Opern Orchester, Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock, Spanish National Orchestra, Orquesta de Cadaqués, Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra, Extremadura Symphony Orchestra, working with conductors such as Semyon Bychkov, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Neville Marriner, John Adams, Daniel Harding, David Afkham, Juanjo Mena, and Lutz Köhler, among others, performing in the most important concert halls worldwide.

He won first prize in the competition organized by the Trumpet Association “Alnafir” in 2008, recording the compulsory piece “Piezas Andaluzas para trompeta y piano” by Santiago Báez.

In September 2017, he won by competitive examination the position of Assistant Principal Trumpet in the Madrid Symphony Orchestra and Principal Trumpet at the Teatro Real, a position he currently holds.