Mario Torrijo
He was born in Llíria, Valencia, where he began his musical studies at the Ateneo Musical and Banda Primitiva de Llíria.
He received the end-of-professional-degree prize in Valencia and completed his superior degree at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid with Miguel Moreno. After graduation, he moved to Perpignan, where he studied with Professor Mel Culbertson, obtaining the postgraduate Gold Medal.
He has been a member of the Spain and Cataluña Youth Orchestras and has collaborated with the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, the Comunidad de Madrid Orchestra, the Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra, the Córdoba Orchestra and the Ciudad de Granada Orchestra. He is regularly invited as a professor by the Joven Orquesta Nacional de España, the World Orchestra and the Valencia Youth Orchestra.
Since 2008, he has worked with percussionist Raúl Benavente in the Tupami duo, performing contemporary music and innovating by creating new artistic expressions for tuba and percussion.
Today, he is a tuba and chamber music professor at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid and principal tuba of the Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra.
