Manuel de Moya - cello

Manuel de Moya Pinilla (Ciudad Real, 1985) holds a Master's Degree in Cello from the Rafael Orozco High School in Córdoba, where he studied under José Antonio Camargo and Álvaro Campos. He previously earned the Castilla-La Mancha Extraordinary Intermediate Grade Award upon completing these studies, with Ignacio Morales as his tutor at the Marcos Redondo High School in his hometown.

Between 2009 and 2021, he continued his studies with María de Macedo in Madrid. Although he has teaching experience since 2004, he currently holds a competitive examination as a Cello Professor at the "Victoria de los Ángeles" CPM in Madrid, where he also co-conducts the Elemental Education Orchestra. He also holds a Master's degree in Spanish and Latin American Music from the Complutense University of Madrid and a Master's degree in Early Music Performance and Sound Research and Recovery of Iberian Heritage from the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid.

At the same time, he has expanded his instrumental and pedagogical training with the masters Wolfgang Boettcher, Ángel Luis Quintana, Damián Martínez, Richard Aaron, Lluís Claret, Jean-Guihen Queyras and Christophe Coin. He has also expanded his training in other fields of musical knowledge such as Analysis (J. Mª. Sánchez Verdú; E. Igoa), Methodological Strategies in Music Teaching (A. Phillips), Stage Anxiety and the Alexander Technique (G. Dalia-J. Izquierdo) and Music and Educational Innovation (A. Domingo).

Manuel de Moya has been actively involved in concert, offering recitals in series and festivals throughout Spain. Both solo and in various chamber and orchestral groups, he has performed at venues such as the National Auditorium of Music, the Teatro de la Zarzuela and the Teatro Monumental in Madrid, the Liceu in Barcelona, the auditoriums of Zaragoza, León, and Cuenca, and the Kursaal in San Sebastián, the Sala María Cristina and the Teatro Cervantes in Málaga, the Antonio Gala Foundation and the Gran Teatro de Córdoba, the Sala Alfonso el Magnánimo in Valencia, and the Paul VI Auditorium at the Vatican. He has also been a guest professor of the cello section of young ensembles such as the WYD Symphony Orchestra and Choir—with which he has recorded four albums (2011, 2012, 2013, 2016)—Project 10, and the Youth Orchestra of the Province of Alicante.

He also regularly receives invitations from various organizations and institutions, such as the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association, the Association of Victims of Terrorism, and the Museo Nacional del Prado, where he plays the cello at events, tributes, and commemorations. He has also presented several collections of poetry, including Poemas de Palestina (Poems of Palestine, 2012) by Isabel Ordaz, at the 28th Spanish Poetry Week in Almagro; Enclave de Sol (Enclave of Sol, 2016) by Belén Naya, at the Casa del Lector in Madrid and the Aula de Música at the Universidad de Alicante (UAH); and Poesía Necesaria II (Necessary Poetry II, 2017) by Leonor Antón.

Since 2006, Manuel de Moya has specialized in Baroque cello with Itziar Atutxa at the Academy of Early Music of the University of Salamanca, with whose Baroque Orchestra he has collaborated ever since. With the latter, he has participated in the CNDM series "Salamanca Barroca", "León Músicas Históricas" and "Universo Barroco", as well as in the 2021 National Heritage Musical Season, alongside specialists such as Pedro Gandía, María Espada, Richard Levitt, David Mason, Federico Mª Sardelli, Andoni Mercero, María Hinojosa, Jone Martínez, Pablo Valetti, Petr Skalka, Alfredo Bernardini, Aldo Mata, Raquel Andueza, Catherine Jones, Manfredo Kraemer, Mercedes Ruiz and Carlos Mena. Likewise, he collaborates regularly with the historicist ensemble Exordium Musicae, with which he has participated in the "Baroque Christmas" Series of the Madrid City Council, the Classics in Summer Festival 2019, the "El Greco" International Music Festival in Toledo, the "Manuel de Falla" Concert Series of the Ateneo de Madrid and the 15th Boccherini Festival of Arenas de San Pedro. He is also a founding member of Orpheus Musicus, a historicist Madrid ensemble that already has its first album, Musica Scotica, acclaimed by critics, and is expected to release its second album, Rediscovering Montali, in 2025. Orpheus Musicus has participated in the FIAS 2021, “Las Noches Clásicas del Olivar” of the Olivar de Castillejo Foundation, the Classics in Summer Festival 2021-2024, in the “Suena la Cúpula” Cycle of the Niemeyer Center in Avilés, in the Matinée of the Matador Club in Madrid and in the
Gijón Early Music Festival 2024.