Spain

He was born in Madrid. He studied music at the Madrid Royal Music Conservatory, obtaining the Advanced Degrees in Clarinet and Chamber Music, with Awards and Honorary Registrations in both specialties. Among the people who contributed to his musical formation, he shows special thanks to the masters V. Sausor, M. Muñoz and V. Peñarrocha (clarinet), P. Zazpe (solfeo and theory of music), J. Villa Rojo (harmony) and L. Rego (chamber music).

He has completed several further training courses with J. Tomas, W. Boeykens, A. Pay, C. Myerscough, J.L. Estellés… but it is with the English teacher A. Pay that he studied regularly from 1992 to 1996. He was awarded a scholarship by the Madrid Region for postgraduate studies at the Academia Internazionale di Musica “Lorenzo Perosi” in Biella (Italy).
He has been a member of various Chamber groups. He was a founding member of the Young Symphony Orchestra of the Region of Madrid (as principal clarinet). Among other training, he has played as a solist with the Symphony Orchestra of Madrid, the Symphony Orchestra of Castilla y León, the Spanish Symphonic Radio and Television Orchestra, the Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra (Vietnam), the Municipal Symphony Orchestra of Pereira (Colombia).

He has recorded three albums with the contemporary music group “Cosmos” (EMEC record company, and SEVERAL RECORDS company), an album with the trio “Desde el Sur de Europa” (SONY FOLK record company). He has also collaborated with the group “Xeque Mate” in the recording of “Alen da Lenda”, (RESISTENCIA récord company), with the GCMUS of the University of Santiago for (GCMUS record company). Pedro Garbajosa has also recorded two albums with the Areteia Quartet: “Música para Camus”, by S. Mariné and “Acrílico y Oleo sobre papel”, by A. Moreno (VERSO record company), He has recorded many concerts for R.N.E., CANAL +, RAI, RADIO FRANCE and NHK (Radio and Television of Japan).
His concert activity has taken him to the main theatres and auditoriums in Spain, to stages in France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Hungary, Austria, Egypt, Japan, Vietnam, Colombia and Morocco.

Since 1997 he has also devoted himself to the study and teaching of Yoga, especially applied to the performing arts. Disciple of Sri Madhavacharia Yogui Dhasa, from whom he obtained the degree of Maha Yoga Siromani (superior teacher of Yoga). Pedro Garbajosa is also a graduate in Vedic Medicine and Bioespinology. He belongs to the Sanatana Dharma Association. In 2014 he completed a master’s degree at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, presenting a T.F.M. entitled “YOGATHERAPY FOR MUSICIANS: Towards a new awareness developing to express what we are”.
Pedro Garbajosa has also taught courses, lectures and master classes in the universities of Balearic Islands, Alicante, Murcia, Valencia, Navarra, Canary Islands, Badajoz, La Coruña and in the most of professional conservatories in Spain.

His teaching activity has been developed in Egipt (Cervantes Institut/The Cairo and Cervantes Institut Alexandria), Conservatory of Music Jacopo Tomadini (Udine/Italy), Tartini Conservatory (Trieste/Italy), Vietnam National Academy of Music, Pereira Cultural Training School (Colombia), Hochschule für Musik Nüremberg (Germany), Higth School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE) in Porto (Portugal), National Ferenc Liszt Academy of Budapest (Hungary) and the University of Music and Dramatic Art of Vienna (Austria).
Currently is developing is concert activity as a member of the Dharma trio, of the Areteia quartet (resident group of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid Wind Quintet. He is professor of clarinet and Yoga teacher for musicians at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid.
Among his projects for the next year are the recording of two CD albums with music by Tomás Bohórquez and Pedro Zazpe, several concerts tribute to composer Pedro Zazpe in Caracas, Maracaibo and Carora (Venezuela) as well as the teaching master classes at the Conservatory os Music of Ljubliana (Slovenia) and the University of Zagreb (Croatia), offering Spanish music recitals in all these centres. Also, he will each master class of clarinet and workshops of Yogaterapia for musicians in several Spanish conservatories. For the next three years, he is scheduled to perform the Concerts for two clarinets and orchestra by the Czech composer F. Krommer (op 35 and op 91) with several professional orchestras, together Joaquín Haro (solo clarinet of the Symphony Orchestra of Córdoba).

Pedro Garbajosa is SELMER artist and he plays with clarinets model Muse. He has recently been appointed ambassador of González Reeds in Spain.