Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández has signed an exclusive recording contract with Sony Classical. The 29-year-old will record his debut album for the label in the summer of 2020, and it will be released in January 2021.
Ferrández studied with former Rostropovich pupil Natalia Shakhovskaya at the Reina Sofía School of Music, and then with Frans Helmerson at the Kronberg Academy. A former scholar with the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation, he won the fourth prize in the cello category at the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition. He has performed under conductors including Zubin Mehta, Gustavo Dudamel, Christoph Eschenbach and Daniele Gatti, and has appeared in chamber concerts with Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer, Vadim Repin, Yuja Wang and Khatia Buniatishvili.