Joaquín Fabra

Joaquin Fabra studied at the Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Valencia with Joaquin Vidal obtaining the highest marks including the special end of studies prize. He has the degree of Profesor Superior de Bombardino. Later he took up trombone studies completing them at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Sevilla where he obtains degree of Profesor Superior de Trombón.

Since 1982 he has been a member of the Banda Sinfónica Municipal de Madrid and has been principal euphonium player for 10 years. He performed as soloist accompanied by the Symphonic Band with trombone and euphonium. At present he holds the principal baritone position

Once in Madrid he studied with his close friend and well known trombonist Benjamin Esparza with whom he prepares recordings carried out by the National Radio performing several trombone concerts with accompaniment of piano. He attended private classes taught by Arnold Jacobs and Dee Stewart in The United States, as well as two courses with Michel Becket and Armin Rosin.

Besides his professional activity with the Symphonic Band he teaches private classes of performance improvement and he very specially treats wind musicians critical cases that suffer from dystonia and other abnormal conditions. In 2000 he taught a course to the professorship of the Conservatorio de Segovia on psychological mechanisms that generate performance problems in musicians.

At present and due to the success that he obtains from the application of his approaches, he is writing a book that reflects the experience that he has been compiling and that he gathers in a whole reorganization of the musical-emotional world of the affected, as well as the re-adequacy of their musical and technical perceptions, all this with the aim to take the affected back to the natural condition.