Passionate teacher
Spanish violin professor Juan Salvador Raya gives master class in Weimar
The Department of String Instruments and Harp is looking forward to external expertise: Spanish violin professor Juan Salvador Raya is coming to the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar on 4 and 5 April for a master class. As part of the Erasmus+ programme, his trip is a return visit to a master class given by Weimar-based violinist Lorenzo Lucca, who taught at the University of Music ‘Victoria Eugenia’ in Granada in early March 2025.
Prof. Juan Salvador Raya will supervise up to ten students from the Weimar violin classes of Lorenzo Lucca, Prof. Kathrin ten Hagen and Prof. Sönke Reger at the Fürstenhaus and the Notenbank. The repertoire of the master class includes violin concertos by Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius and Bartók, violin sonatas by Brahms and Strauss, as well as virtuoso works such as Sarasate's ‘Zigeunerweisen’.
‘I am very much looking forward to Prof Raya's return visit and hope that he will feel as welcome with us as I did in Granada,’ says Lorenzo Lucca. ’May the course and the violinist's passionate pedagogical talent bring much inspiration to the students and open up new perspectives in the study of violin technique and repertoire.’
Born in Spain, Juan Salvador Raya is a passionate teacher. He teaches as a professor of violin at the University of Music ‘Victoria Eugenia’ in his home city of Granada and at the ‘Katarina Gurska School of Music’ in Madrid. He has also taught as a guest professor at the Music universities in Cologne, Würzburg, Nuremberg and Münster.
The students in his classes in Madrid and Granada are prizewinners in national competitions, play in the Spanish National Youth Orchestra and have international mentors from the ranks of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Spanish National Orchestra and the orchestras of the Bavarian Radio and the Leipzig Gewandhaus.
Prof. Juan Salvador Raya performs as a soloist, chamber musician and concertmaster with artists such as Sabine Meyer, Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, Eduardo Palomares, Enrique García Asensio, Miguel Colom, Alexander Vitlin and Gerhard Schulz. He is a juror at the FKG Foundation Madrid and ‘Jugend Musiziert’ competitions.
[20 March 2025]