Javier Benet

Spanish percussion player (tympani, marimba...)

Javier Benet compiled studies of percussion and piano in Valencia. He is professor of percussion of the Superior Conservatory of Music of Madrid. He is a soloist with the RTVE Symphony Orchestra.
Director of the percussion group Classroom 44. Together with Juan G. Ivorra, he directs the International Percussion Encounters that have been held annually for six summers in Xixona (Alicante).
His interpretive work ranges from early music (Grupo Pro Musica Antiqua de Madrid, directed by Miguel Angel Tallante) to contemporary music (various performances and recordings of current authors), jazz (First Prize for Best Soloist in the Festival of Jazz of Madrid in 1984).