Fernando Sánchez’ first performance as a soloist was at the age of 7, playing the flute to the song “Los niños del Pireo” at his school's end-of-year festival. Until then, he had been torturing his parents' ears since he was 5. Seeing that he had potential in music, his father (a professional trumpet player) decided to enroll him in the conservatory, where he studied music theory and the clarinet.
Once he finished the conservatory, he realized that what really motivated him was another instrument, the saxophone, and other musical styles, so he left the conservatory and began studying saxophone and modern harmony with Iñaki Askunce for three years.
In the early 1990s, he received a scholarship from the Government of Navarra to continue his studies abroad and moved to Chicago (USA) where he continued studying saxophone, modern harmony, and improvisation with Pat la Barbera, Hal Galper, and Dan Hearle. He has also participated in and received classes from saxophonists George Garzone (Berklee School of Music), Ariel Briguez, Seamus Blake, and Ernesto Aurignac.
All this training has enabled him to participate in the recording of more than 30 albums of different styles such as jazz, rock, pop, fusion, world music, classical music, and electronic music, and has given him the opportunity to play in projects such as Yerry Jazz Band, Moliendo Café Trío, ES3 Trío, Fernando Sánchez Jazz Quartet, Musicata, La Rioja Big Band, Castilla La Mancha Big Band, Tommy Caggianni Therion Project, Bolbora, Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra, and Joyful Gospel Choir.
He currently continues to play with some of these projects, and he also collaborates as a studio musician. As a teacher, he gives classes in saxophone, clarinet, transverse flute and modern harmony at music schools.
Fernando plays with our "Take the A" mouthpiece in an 8 tip opening.
