Xavier Larsson Paez

Larsson was born in Ciutadella de Menorca, Spain, in 1991, where he began his musical education on the violin and saxophone. Later, he went on to further develop his saxophone skills at the Cologne University of Music and Dance, where he graduated with a Konzertexamen under Daniel Gauthier and earned a Masters degree in New Music with David Smeyers.
Larsson has appeared as soloist in well-known musical venues world wide including the Cologne Philharmonie, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Frankfurt Alte Oper, the Musikverin in Vienna, the Palau de la Música Catalana, the Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, and the Chicago Cultural Centre.
Over the course of his career, Larsson has won over twenty first prizes in national and international competitions, both as soloist and as a chamber musician. Some of his prizes include the Classic Winds International Festival in 2016 in Germany, the 2016 SaxoVoce in France, the 2014 Intermusica in Austria, the 2014 Michal Spisak prize in Poland, the 2009 Concurso Permanente Jóvenes >