| Biography | Joaquín Achúcarro is a Basque Spanish classical pianist.
Achúcarro began piano lessons at the Bilbao Conservatory and, at 13, made his concerto debut in Bilbao playing a Mozart concerto with a local orchestra. As a teenager he moved to Madrid to study a degree in physics, although soon after graduating, he devoted himself to the study of music. He moved to Siena, Italy to study at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana.
He has worked in 58 countries, with 206 orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony, Philharmonia, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Chicago Symphony, Orchestre National de France, and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. |