Paola Caballero

Paola Caballero recently returned to Boston after spending over a decade in Barcelona, where she was a member of the Chamber Orchestra de Cadaqués and the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona 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, to name a few. 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.

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. Her upcoming engagements include a return to the Metropolitan Museum 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.

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. Previously, she served as Music Director of Symphonia at Phillips Exeter Academy for three seasons

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 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.