Guillem Gràcia (Barcelona, 2005) began his cello studies at the age of 6 and made his debut as a soloist at just 13 years old, receiving a resoundingly positive review highlighting a sound "of an irreproachable quality and musicality" and an "interpretive ability with a very welldefined personality and personal criteria" that gave "a lesson in maturity at 13 years old".
Since then, Guillem has played in some of the most prestigious halls in Spain such as the National Auditorium, the Palau de la Música Catalana and the Gran Teatre del Liceu.
In recent years he has won several prizes, including the absolute prize at the MiN International Competition (Narvik, Norway) and first prize at the Certamen de Interpretación Intercentros Melómano. In the summer of 2024 he was finalist and prizewinner at the prestigious Bach International Competition held in Leipzig, and two months later he won the Primer Palau 2024 award, as well as the Critics Prize and the Catalunya Música Prize. Last October he won second prize at the Tokyo Minato International Competition, thus making his debut with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra.
Since 2019 he has been studying at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía as a student of professor Jens Peter Maintz assisted by Fernando Arias, and he is also studying the chamber classes taught by Marta Gulyás and Heime Müller. As a student of the school he has been part of various chamber music ensembles, among them the Goldberg Trio (where he played an arrangement of all the Goldberg variations by J.S. Bach) and has been conducted by personalities such as András Schiff (playing Brandenburg concertos), David Afkham or Andrés Orozco-Estrada.
Also, during these last years Guillem has attended the masterclasses of Lluís Claret, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt and Pablo Ferrández, among others, besides having been a guest student at the Cello Biennale in Amsterdam.
Guillem performed El Cant dels Ocells with Peter Thiemann on August 26, 2017, at the event in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack in Barcelona.
He currently plays with a cello by François Caussin, Mirecourt Vers 1830-1840.