Darío Tamayo

Born in Granada in 1993, he began his musical training at the age of eight. After
studying Piano at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Granada and at the Musikeon-Center
for Piano Specialization in Valencia, he moved to Barcelona, where he studied Bachelor’s
Degree in Harpsichord with maestro Luca Guglielmi at the Escola Superior de Música de
Catalunya (ESMUC). At present, he lives in Geneva (Switzerland), where he is studying for a
Master's Degree in Musical Performance - Maestro al cembalo at the Haute École de
Musique de Genève, with maestro Leonardo García Alarcón.
In the field of early music, he has received lessons from harpsichordists like Luca
Guglielmi, Leonardo García Alarcón, Darío Moreno, Aarón Zapico, Christophe Rousset,
Javier Artigas, and Eduardo López Banzo, as well as from organists like Óscar Candendo,
Alessio Corti, Juan María Pedrero, and Andrés Cea. 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, Marc Hantaï, Xavier DíazLatorre, Emilio Moreno or Emmanuel Balssa, among others. As a harpsichordist, he has
collaborated with groups such as Cantoría, Serendipia Ensemble and the Granada Baroque
Orchestra, 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. Since that
year, he is Harpsichordist and Organist of Continuum XXI, a Spanish-German group
specialized in Contemporary Music on historical instruments. Since 2022, he is also the
Harpsichordist of the Barcelona Baroque Orchestra.
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, Miguel Romea, Gabriel Delgado, Michael Thomas,
Achim Holub, and Manuel Hernández-Silva, among others. As a conductor, he has led
several orchestral ensembles, such as London Classical Soloists, Berlin Sinfonietta, Barcelona
Baroque Orchestra, Orchestra Frau Musika, Granada Philharmonia Orchestra, León Youth
Orchestra, or Granada Youth Symphony Orchestra; besides, he has conducted some vocal
groups, like Coro del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Vokalsystem Berlin and Tomás Luis de Victoria
Choir. In 2013, he founded the early music group Íliber Ensemble, becoming its Artistic
Director and Principal Conductor from then on. Since 2017, he has been the Artistic
Director in the staged productions by the Granada Baroque Orchestra. In 2021, he
participated as harpsichordist and conductor of the Granada Festival Baroque Academy,
working hand-in-hand with Carlos Mena. Since 2022, he is Assistant Conductor of the
Orchestra Frau Musika of Vicenza (Italy), whose Principal Conductor is Andrea Marcon.
As a result of these activities, he has performed concerts in countries like Spain,
United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, Czech Republic and China, playing in
music halls such as Daning Theatre (Shanghai), L’Auditori (Barcelona), Palau de la Música
Catalana (Barcelona), Palau de la Música (Valencia), Teatros del Canal (Madrid), Ateneo de
Madrid, Hellerau Festspielhaus (Dresden), Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, City of León
Auditorium or Manuel de Falla Auditorium (Granada), among others. He has made
recordings for the Spanish National Television (RTVE) and for the IBS Classical and
Patrimonio Sonoro labels.
As a researcher, he has published several articles and has given lectures at institutions
such as the University of La Rioja, Madrid Royal Conservatory and Escola Superior de
Música de Catalunya. Besides, he has made the first translation into Spanish in the history of
the first edition of the treatise L’art de toucher le clavecin by François Couperin, published in
Valencia in 2016, coinciding with the tercentenary of the original publication.