Arturo Castro Nogueras

Arturo Castro Nogueras, draws on a rich cultural background that spans his diverse heritage. The son of two pianists and of Cuban, Mexican and Puerto Rican descent, he has performed extensively across Europe, Africa and the Americas, including sold – out performances at the Schumannfest in Düsseldorf, Josef Gingold Chamber Music Festival in Miami, Pablo Casals Hall in Puerto Rico, Classical Music Alive, Reading U.K., Mexico City´s National Art Museum, St. Donatus Festival, Croacia, Iberoamerican Institute in Berlin, among others, featuring Mexican and Caribbean contemporary and classical music.

Recent performances include solo performances with the Dortmund Philharmoniker, Bad Reichenhaller Philharmoniker, Neue Philarmonie Westfalen in Germany; Camerata Santiago de Querétaro and Orquesta Sinfónica de Oaxaca in Mexico; Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico, among others.

Arturo received from the city of Düsseldorf, Germany, the Förderpreis für Musik, awarded to outstanding young artists in the field of the arts.

Arturo holds a Bachelor's degree in Music with a major in Guitar from the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico under the tutelage of distinguished Puerto Rican maestro Leonardo Egúrbida and a Master's degree in Guitar and Early Music from the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Düsseldorf under the tutelage of famed guitarist and composer Joaquín Clerch, and pianist and harpsichordist Anthony Spiri. In 2016 he graduated with distinction from the Konzertexamen excellence programme at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Prof. Clerch's class.