Paola Caballero recently returned to Boston after spending over a decade in Barcelona, performing regularly with the Chamber Orchestra de Cadaqués and the Orquestra Simfònica deBarcelona i Nacional de Catalunya (OBC).

Throughout her career, she has collaborated with renowned artists, including Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, Janine Jansen, Isabelle Faust, Ray Chen, Augustin Hadelich, Lang Lang, Angela Gheorghiu, Plácido Domingo, and Jonas Kaufmann. She has also performed under the direction of esteemed conductors such as Gianandrea Noseda, Semyon Bychkov, Eliahu Inbal, Vasily Petrenko, and John Adams.

During her time in Europe, Ms. Caballero toured extensively, performing in many of the continent’s most prestigious concert halls with the Orquestra de Cadaqués and the OBC. Her discography includes recordings on the Naxos, Trito, and BMOP/Sound labels, and her performances have been featured on the Celebrity Series of Boston and Medici.TV, one of the world’s leading classical music streaming platforms.

An active chamber musician, she was a collaborator with the contemporary ensemble BCN 216 in Barcelona. Prior to her time in Spain, she studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where she founded the Esperanto Trio. The ensemble made its debut at St. James’s Church in Piccadilly and performed in a live BBC broadcast from the Barbican Centre as part of the BBC Symphony’s New Music Festival.

Now based in Boston, Ms. Caballero is an active performer and recording artist with the Grammy Award-winning Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP/Sound). She frequently appears with Odyssey Opera, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Back Bay Chorale, the Bach, Beethoven & Brahms Society, and Boston Ballet. She also recently joined the Chamber Orchestra of the United Nations, making her debut with the ensemble at Carnegie Hall. Her upcoming engagements include a return to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as a featured artist for the museum’s Balcony Series.

Beyond classical music, Ms. Caballero has performed across a variety of genres, sharing the stage with artists such as Michael Bublé, Audra McDonald, Chaka Khan, Madeleine Peyroux, Antony and the Johnsons, Björk, Joni Mitchell, Andrea Bocelli, and Father John Misty. She has also appeared at major festivals, including Sónar, Primavera Sound, and the Jazz Festival at the Palau de la Música Catalana.

In addition to her performing career, Ms. Caballero is a dedicated educator. She was recently appointed Executive Director of the Lexington Chamber Music Center and serves as Artistic Director of the Point CounterPoint Chamber Music Festival, where she has been on faculty for the past ten seasons. She also teaches at the New England Conservatory Preparatory Division, Project STEP, and the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra. Previously, she served as Music Director of Symphonia at Phillips Exeter Academy for three seasons and has given masterclasses at the Puerto Rico Center for Collaborative Piano. She has also participated in panel discussions at the Puerto Rican Summer Music Festival.

Ms. Caballero holds a Postgraduate Diploma from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, along with both Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from the New England Conservatory in Boston. She has studied with David Takeno, Masuko Ushioda, Eric Rosenblith, and Lucy Chapman, and has also worked with Lorand Fenyves and Erika Raum at the Royal Conservatory of Music. She remains deeply grateful to the Royal Conservatory for sponsoring the use of a 1686 Nicolo Amati instrument and to the Maggini-Stiftung Foundation in Zurich for enabling her to play a 1792 Bergonzi violin over
the years.