LUIS ARACAMA 

ABOUT

After winning three prizes in the last OPM International Violoncello Competition in Morocco (April 2026) and being selected by the Verbier Festival Academy's soloist program of the year 2025, Luis Aracama has become one of the most outstanding cellists of his generation. Born in Ponferrada, Spain, in 2005, since 2018, he has studied in the Aline Foriel-Destezet Cello Chair at the Reina Sofía Higher School of Music with Professor Ivan Monighetti. He has been granted scholarships by Ayuntamiento de Madrid Fundación Albéniz and AIE Society. Her Majesty Queen Sofía handed him the Diploma to the most outstanding student of his chair in the 2021-2022 and 2024-2025 academic years.
He began his music studies at the age of seven at Ponferrada’s Conservatory with Laura Núñez, and later continued with María Casado and Michał Dmochowski.

He has attended courses and received masterclasses from Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Frans Helmerson, Sol Gabetta, Jan Vogler, Nicolas Altstaedt, Márta Gulyás, Heime Müller, Gautier Capuçon, Torleif Théeden, Gabor Takács-Nagy, Ilya Gringolts,  Alexander Lonquich, Emil Rovner, Enrico Dindo, Ralf Gothóni, Alban Gerhardt, Kian Soltani, Pablo Ferrández, Isabel Charisius (Alban Berg quartet), Asier Polo and Miklós Perényi... Since 2019, he is a scholar of the Liechtenstein Music Academy.

He has been awarded first prize at the Justus Dotzauer International Cello Competition, where he also obtained the special prize to the best performer of contemporary music, first prize, unanimously, of the Alicante Concert Society competition, first prize at the Jaime Dobato Benavente Cello Competition, first prize at the Antonio Janigro (Porec, Croatia), where he also obtained the special prize Soloists of Zagreb, second prize at the OPM International Cello Competition in Morocco where he was also awarded the audience prize and the orchestra prize and the second prize at the David Popper International Cello Competition.

He has played with musicians such as I. Monighetti, J. Vogler, C. Poppen, M. Gulyas, Eva Gevorgyan, Francisco Lourenço, A. Pilsan... He has played at Festivals such as the Solberg Festival invited by Sol Gabetta as well as throughout Europe as a soloist and with an orchestra.

He has performed as a soloist with the Savaria Symphony Orchestra, the Budafok Symphony Orchestra, Moroccan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Freixenet Symphony Orchestra, the Ponferrada Classical Camerata, the Zagreb Soloists and the Chamber Orchestra of the Cristóbal Halffter Conservatory of Music with conductors such as Olivier Holt, Dina Besaid, Jordi Francés, Kornel Thomas, Daniel Bombín and Jorge Montes. He has recently released his first CD in which he performs Vivaldi's double concerto with Laura Núñez and the Camerata Clásica de Ponferrada. In 2022 he performed as a soloist in Müpa's Discoveries series in Budapest.

He has been selected as an active student at the Verbier Academy, Gstaad Music Academy, at the Kronberg Academy masterclasses, at the Santander Music and Academy Meeting, at the Moritzburg Festival and at the Nehuhardemberg masterclasses among others.
He has been a member of the Freixenet Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pablo González, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Juanjo Mena and Péter Csaba, and that of the Vivaldi Estaciones and Puertos del Estado Haendel ensembles; the Dvořák Quartet, and the KPMG Schubert, the Appassionato and the Schola trios. He is currently a member of the Deloitte Mozart trio.

Luis plays a Wojciech Topa cello from 2005 ex-Monighetti.