Darío Tamayo

Harpsichordist & Conductor Born in Granada in 1993, he began his musical training at the age of eight. He studied Piano at the Granada Royal Conservatory, furthering then his training at the Musikeon-Piano Specialization Centre of Valencia with Luca Chiantore and Pablo Gómez Ábalos. Currently, he is studying Harpsichord with maestro Luca Guglielmi at the Escola Superior De Musica de Catalunya (ESMUC), in Barcelona. In the field of early music, he has received lessons from harpsichordists like Darío Moreno, Aarón Zapico, Eduard Martínez Borruel and Eduardo López Banzo, as well as from organists like Juan María Pedrero, Andrés Cea and Óscar Candendo. He has extended his training in the sphere of historically informed performance with important musicians, such as Manfredo Kraemer, Mara Galassi, Lorenzo Coppola, Pedro Memelsdorff, Edoardo Torbianelli, Jean Tubéry, Alexis Kossenko, Pedro Estevan, Marc Hantaï, Xavier Díaz-Latorre, Emilio Moreno or Emmanuel Balssa, among others. In 2020, he has been selected to participate as a harpsichordist at the Akademie Versailles, organized by the Centre De Musique Baroque De Versailles and Collegium Marianum of Prague, under the baton of maestro Alexis Kossenko. As a harpsichordist, he usually collaborates with vocal groups —like Numen Ensemble—, as well as with orchestras —such as the Granada Philharmonia Orchestra or the Orquesta Barroca De Granada—. In 2013, he founded the early music group Íliber Ensemble, becoming its Artistic Director and Principal Conductor from then on. As a result of these activities, he has performed concerts in countries like Spain, United Kingdom, Germany, Czech Republic and China. In 2019, he recorded his first album, with the Spanish Baroque opera La guerra de los gigantes by Sebastián Durón (1660-1716) in a co-production between Granada Baroque Orchestra and Íliber Ensemble for the IBS Classical label and with financing from the Community of Madrid. Interested in Orchestra Conducting from a very young age, he began studying this discipline at the age of sixteen, pursuing then his training with courses in London and Berlin. Since then, he has received classes and advice from conductors such as Enrique García Asensio, Colin Metters, Bruno Aprea, Gabriel Delgado, Michael Thomas, Achim Holub, and Manuel Hernández Silva, among others. He made his debut as a conductor with the Granada Youth Symphony Orchestra at the age of twenty and, from then on, he has been invited to conduct several orchestral ensembles, such as the Granada Philharmonia Orchestra, León Youth Orchestra, London Classical Soloists or Berlin Sinfonietta; besides, he has conducted some groups specialized in early music, like the Tomás Luis de Victoria Choir. Since 2017, he has been the Artistic Director in the staged productions by the Granada Baroque Orchestra, with works such as Sebastián Durón’s La guerra de los gigantes and Antonio de Literes’s Acis y Galatea.