MA Eloy Panizo Padrón

Eloy Panizo Padrón has been principal trombonist of the Wrocław Philharmonic’s National Music Forum in Wrocław since 2014. Before coming to Poland, he was a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in Canada, serving as acting principal trombonist, and of the Dutch Holland Symfonia as principal trombonist.

He began learning to play the instrument at the age of ten at the Patronato Insular de Música Academy in El Hierro (Spain) under the guidance of Francisco José Abellán. He is a graduate of the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Spain) in the class of Professor José Antonio Cubas and Deanna Dee Decker, as well as the local Academia de Estudios Orquestales de Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, where he studied under Matthew Breeze and Yosef Itskovich.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in 2008 at Codarts Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Rotterdam (Netherlands) in the class of Jörgen van Rijen, Pierre Volders, and George Wiegel. He then continued his studies at the Colburn School Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles (United States) under the guidance of Mark Lawrence, where he earned an Artist Diploma in 2011. He received his master’s degree in 2020 from the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław in the class of Prof. Dr. Tomasz Hajda.

He received private instruction from musicians such as Ben van Dijk, Remko de Jager, Jay Friedman, Michael Mulcahy, Charles Vernon, James Miller, Steve Witser, Ralph Sauer, James Wilt, David Krehbiel, Mark Hampson, and Luis Ángel Fanjul.

He has participated in numerous international music festivals, including the Festival de Música de Canarias (Spain), the Wratislavia Cantans International Festival (Poland), and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California (United States).

He has given recitals in the Netherlands, Spain, Poland, and the United States. In 2004, he was a finalist in the Gilberto Gagliardi Tenor Trombone Competition as part of the International Trombone Festival held in Ithaca, near New York (United States). The following year, together with the Codarts Hogeschool voor de Kunsten trombone ensemble, he was awarded first prize in the Emory Remington Trombone Choir Competition in New Orleans (United States). He was a member of the International Trombone Ensemble—with this ensemble, he recorded the CD “6.35” and toured Japan. The artist has performed and recorded with numerous orchestras, including the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria (Spain), the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, and the Dutch Radio Filharmonisch Orkest based in Hilversum.

He has been teaching at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław since 2017. He is invited to lead master classes at various institutions (Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias, Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, and the Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź), at trombone festivals (Tromboholizm Poznań, Żywieckie Suwakowanie, Internationales Posaunenfestival Leipzig), and music courses (Tortury Muzyczne in Wadowice, Wind Instrument Interpretation Course in Duszniki-Zdrój), and as a tutor, he has prepared trombone and tuba sections for youth symphony orchestras (Joven Orquesta de Canarias, International Lutosławski Youth Orchestra, and the NFM Orchestra Academy).

In 2024, his debut solo album Lower Silesia for Trombone was released, recorded in collaboration with Monika Hanus-Kobus, Tomasz Hajda, and Filip Kołaczyk. The album features previously unpublished works inspired by Lower Silesia, composed specifically to showcase the unique sonic and expressive capabilities of the trombone.