“… Judith Jáuregui was an ideal soloist, playing with clarity and utmost elegance, fully immersing herself in the spirit of the work to convey its message with great precision. The RTVE Choir and Orchestra were also magnificent, and Christoph König demonstrated his deep understanding of the work and his ability to express it…”
SCHERZO, Tomás Marco
October 13, 2023
Personality, refinement and brightness define pianist Judith Jáuregui. British magazine International Piano has recently portrayed her as ‘creative intuition’, ‘an imaginative artist, a strikingly individual performer who has impressed European audiences with her maturity of expression’. Likewise, in the words of the German magazine Piano News, ‘it is not only the impeccability of her performance that counts, but rather the impression of listening to a pianist who really has something to say’.
Other recent reviews outline that in her interpretation ‘everything is evocation, suggestion, of a joyful and dancelike voluptuosity’, describe her sound as ‘simply beautiful: it is a festival of polyphony and fluidity, sobriety and elegance and a rare intelligence of contrast and nuance’ (Audiophile Magazine) and remark that ‘listening to Judith Jáuregui is, above all, a discovery of a leading artist, who plays without borders and finds her truth in musical power, but also in an overwhelming interiority’ (Mediapart).
In recent years she has been enthusiastically received on leading stages, including the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, the Palau de la Música in Barcelona, the Southbank Centre in London, Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, Flagey in Bruxelles, Konzerthaus Berlin, Suntory Hall Tokyo, NCPA Beijing, Teatro Mayor in Bogotá, Schloss Elmau in Germany, Murten Classics in Switzerland and the Festival International de Piano de La Roque d’Anthéron in France, the Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada, amongst others.
She has collaborated with the Britten Sinfonia, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Orchestre National de Cannes, the Sinfonie Orchester Biel Solothurn, the Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie, the Neubrandenburger Philharmonie, the PFK Prague Philharmonia, Das Neue Orchester Köln, the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, the Rzeszow Philharmonic, the Slovak Sinfonietta, the OFUNAM in Mexico and the Simón Bolívar Orchestra of Venezuela, besides the principal Spanish orchestras such as the Spanish National Orchestra, Spanish National Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, the Basque National Orchestra, the Castille and Leon Symphony or the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra.
Born in San Sebastian in northern Spain, Judith Jáuregui has a multicultural background derived from her Basque mother and her Mexican father, who grew up in France. After initial studies and a debut recital at the age of just 11, she moved to Munich to study with the distinguished Russian pianist Vadim Suchanov at the Richard-Strauss Konservatorium.
Judith’s discography reflects her broad repertoire: from the latest album ‘Homeland’ with Grieg Piano Concerto and Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain alongside the Castille and León Symphony that has received critical acclaim to the previous one dedicated to Robert and Clara Schumann with which she was nominated to the Opus Klassik and to her other albums where she visited composers such as Granados, Liszt, Chopin, Mompou, Albéniz, Szymanowski or Scriabin.
