Education

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He completed an extensive music education at the following institutions:

Zurich University of the Arts (Switzerland)
Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (Germany)
Lucerne University of Music (Switzerland)
Chigiana Music Accademy of Siena (Italy)
International Music Academy of Hammelburg (Germany)
International Music Academy of Nice (France)
International Handel Academy (Germany)
International Auer Academy (Hungary)
Lucerne Festival (Switzerland) 

He studied under the guidance of the following mentors:

Prof. Karl Kaiser (Freiburg Baroque Orchestra)
Prof. Michael Schneider (Camerata Cologne – La Stagione Frankfurt)
Prof. Thaddeus Watson (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra)
Prof. Matthias Ziegler (Collegium Novum Zurich)
Prof. Janek Rosset (Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich)
Prof. Anna-Katharina Graf (Les Joueurs de Flute)

Prof. Peter-Lukas Graf (Basel)

Sir James Galway (Lucerne)

He attended master classes with:

Aurèle Nicolet

William Bennett

Barthold Kuijken

Emmanuel Pahud

Patrick Gallois

Philippe Bernold

Rachel Brown

Maxence Larrieu

Felix Renggli

Jeanne Baxtresser

Janos Balint

Michel Debost

Roberto Fabricciani

 Awards

Prize winner at several traditional music contests

Special Prize at the Mazda Young Musician Competition

Semifinalist at the polish International Flute Competition in Krakow

Carolina Oramas Scholarship Prize

Frankfurt Bach Foundation Scholarship Prize

Illustrious Citizen of the town of Villa de Leyva

HERNANDO LEAL-GÓMEZ

​​"Hernando Leal-Gómez is a versatile and highly innovative international musician whose extensive repertoire ranges from the Renaissance to the Contemporary music".

"His musical work focuses on the interpretation of the Baroque, Classical and Modern music flute repertoire on more than 10 types of historical and modern flutes".

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HERNANDO LEAL-GÓMEZ

​​Hernando Leal-Gómez is a versatile and very innovative international musician. His musical work focuses in the fields of historically informed performance practice and the contemporary music. 

Appearances as a soloist and chamber musician in major music centers has taken him to many countries in Europa, Asia, North and South America.

As a focus of his artistic work, he understand a stylistically versatile orientation: both in the field of historical performance practice of ancient music as well as in the field of classical and modern playing techniques have led him to play on a variety of historical and modern flutes. 

​​An important part of his flute repertoire is dedicated to the interpretation of contemporary music by composers such as: Salvatore Sciarrino, Heinz Holliger, Louis Andriessen, Toshio Hosokawa, Klaus Huber, Robert Dick, Jürg Wyttenbach, Rudolf Kelterborn, Toru Takemitsu, Kazuo Fukushima, Isang Yun, and Blas E. Atehortua among others.

Artistic activity

Regular appearances as a soloist and chamber musician in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal, Japan, Argentina, Italy, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Mexico.

Several musical projects and performances in major music centers such as the Teatro Real in Madrid, Hiroshima Center Hall,

Teatro Rex in Buenos Aires, Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico, Luis Angel Arango Concert Hall, Toyota City Concert Hall, Frankfurt Opera House, Salamanca Hall of Gifu,  Markgräfliche Opera House Bayreuth, Festspielhaus Bregenz, Mozart Hall of the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Palau de la Mùsica of Valencia in Spain, Teatro el Círculo of Rosario, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Fukuoka Symphony Hall, Teatro Colón in Bogotá, Teatro Nacional Sucre in Quito, Johannes Brahms Hall in Karlsruhe, Teatro San Martin of Tucumán, Casino of Bern, Volkshaus Basel and Zürich, Tonhalle St. Gallen, Lucerne Theater, Teatro Julio Mario Santo Domingo in Bogotá, Teatro Libertador of Córdoba, Culture and Congress House of Lucerne - KKL and the Tonhalle Zurich among many others.

He is a guest at flute festivals as in Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia.

Several CD productions, among others with music from old writings of St.Egidien in Nuremberg and with the ensemble "La Stagione Frankfurt" with music by C.P.E. Bach.

He has participated as a soloist with concerts for flute by C.P.E. Bach, Johann Quantz, Franz Benda, G.P. Telemann, Vivaldi, Carl Nielsen, Franz Doppler, Carl Stamitz and J. S. Bach, among many others.

He has been part of musical projects with renowned orchestras as:

Lucerne Symphony Orchestra

Southwest German Philharmonic

Opera of Lucerne
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ensemble Modern
Kölner Akademie
La Stagione Frankfurt
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra of Budweis
Karlsruhe Baroque Orchestra
Chapelle Ancienne Zurich
Bach Collegium Frankfurt
 

He has participated in renowned music festivals such as:

Salzburg Music Festival (Austria)
Darmstadt modern music festival (Germany)
Wiesbaden Bach Weeks (Germany)
Magdeburg Telemann Festival (Germany)
Series "Happy New Ears"with the Ensemble Modern (Germany)
Frankfurt Bach Concerts (Germany)
Weilburg Music Festival (Germany)
Frankfurt Forum for Early Music (Germany)
Mozart Music Festival (Colombia and Mexico)

Mentors and professors:

Sir James Galway

Peter-Lukas Graf
Prof. Anna-Katharina Graf 
Prof. Karl Kaiser (Freiburg Baroque Orchestra)
Prof. Michael Schneider (Camerata Cologne – La Stagione Frankfurt)
Prof. Thaddeus Watson (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra)
Prof. Matthias Ziegler (Collegium Novum Zurich)
Prof. Janek Rosset (Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich)

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He attended master classes with:

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Aurèle Nicolet

William Bennett

Barthold Kuijken

Emmanuel Pahud

Patrick Gallois

Philippe Bernold

Rachel Brown

Maxence Larrieu

Felix Renggli

Jeanne Baxtresser

Janos Balint

Michel Debost

Roberto Fabricciani

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