Eduardo Inestal was born in 1982 in Spain and lives in Germany. He studied first in Spain with Hugo Geller and then with Professor Joaquin Clerch at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, where he graduated “with distinction”.
Numerous master classes have brought him together with renowned guitarists such as Joaquín Clerch, David Russell, Ricardo Gallén, Alex Garrobé, Margarita Escarpa, Miguel Trápaga, Carlo Marchione, Roberto Aussell, Eduardo Isaac, Denis Azabagic or Pavel Steidl.
The winner of 20 international guitar competitions (“Norba Caesarina”, “José Tomás – Villa de Petrer”, “Nizhny Novgorod” “Villa de Aranda”, “Alexander Matyaev”, “Cesar Aira”, “Luys Milán”, “New Generation Guitar Competition” and others. Inestal has already developed an intensive concert career as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe, America and Africa (Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Peru, Cuba, Switzerland, Belgium, Nigeria, Russia, Albania, etc.).
Inestal is a guest at various festivals such as “Festival Internacional de La Habana” (Cuba), “Festival Internacional de Segovia” (Spain), “Dusseldorf international Guitar Festival”, “Niederrhein Music Festival”, “Semana de la guitarra de Petrer” (Spain), “Elfenauer Kultursommer (Bern-The Switzerland). “La guitarra en los jardines de Falla” (Spain), Albania Guitar Festival, “Nizhny Novorod guitar Festival”, among others. as well as concerts in the Kölner Philharmonie, Robert Schumann Saal (Dusseldorf), Auditorio Manuel de Falla (Granada, Spain), Fundación Juan March (Madrid-Spain), Auditorio Ciudad de León (Spain), the Teatro Conde Duque (Madrid-Spain), Spasskaya Teather (Kirov, Russia) or Teatro Nacional de Cuba (La Habana).
His CD “La Guitarra de Burgos” has been called a “new reference recording” by the international press. In 2016 he released his CD “Premieres, new music for guitar” with works dedicated for him by Joaquín Clerch, José María Gallardo del Rey or Simone Iannarelli, among others.
In summer 2017 he recorded for IBS Classical, together with Joaquín Clerch and José Luis Morillas, the works for guitar by Jean Maurice Mourat. In 2020 appears and receives the critics’ prize “Melómano de Oro”.
Inestal has performed as a soloist with numerous orchestras (Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Ratingen Sinfonietta, Sinfónica Ciudad de León, Heinrich Heine Symphoniker, Flexemble, among others. ) under the conductors Leo Brouwer, Thomas Gabrisch, Dorel Murgu, Desar Sulejmani or Thomas Neuhoff, or as a chamber musician with pianists like Alberto Rosado or Anthony Spiri, guitarists like Joaquín Clerch, Alexander Sergei Ramírez, flautists like Anette Maiburg or Guillermo Thomson, Concertgebouw bassoonist Simon Van Holen, cellist Juan Mateo Revilla, among others.
He has given numerous world premieres, among others, of works by composers David del Puerto, Simone Iannarelli, Joaquín Clerch, José María Gallardo del Rey, Guido López-Gavilán, Pepe Payá, Javier Salvador, Francisco Albert Ricote, Santiago Quinto, Daniel Real, Pablo Rodríguez, Juan Erena, Cristof Heringer, Marius Bajog, Guido López Gavilán, Jan Freidlin, Juan Cruz Guevara, Alberto Trabajos, Daniel Casado, Antonio García Palao, Mischa Tangian or Claudio Prieto.
Recordings for radio were made in Spain (Radio Clásica – RNE) and Perú (Radio Filarmonía / Radio María).
Inestal, a lecturer at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf and at the Städtische Clara-Schumann-Musikschule Düsseldorf, conducts seminars and master classes in addition to his extensive concert activities and is a sought-after jury member at international guitar competitions. In parallel, Inestal is a Tonebase Artist.
Eduardo Inestal plays guitars by Mathias Dammann-Julian Dammann and Paco Santiago Marín and strings Knobloch Active.
Since summer semester 2022 he teaches guitar at the International Music Academy Anton Rubinstein in Düsseldorf.