Born in 1988 in Barcelona, Pau Codina started his cello studies at the age of 5 with Eulàlia Subirà (Manlleu, Barcelona). He is a graduate of the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth, where he studied with Louise Hopkins and Gary Hoffman.

He has performed extensively throughout Europe and in many prestigious venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Flagey, Bozar, Pau Casals Auditorium, L’Auditori de Barcelona, and Palau de la Música Catalana Concert Hall in Barcelona, both as a soloist and chamber musician. He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra of Budapest, the Chamber Orchestra of Wallonie, the RTVE Orchestra in Madrid, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and the Andorra Chamber Orchestra. He also recorded Saint-Saens Suite op.16 for cello and orchestra with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liege, conducted by Christian Arming under the label Fuga Libera, and more recently, with the Camera Musicae Orchestra (the current Franz Schubert Philharmonia) conducted by Salvador Mas, performed Robert Schumann’s Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 129.

Away from the concert platform, Pau has won several competitions and awards, such as the MBF’s Guilhermina Suggia Award, the Kronberg Cello Festival Schlosskonzert Prize, both the third prize as well as the Critique’s Award in the Primer Palau Competition in Barcelona, and the first prize in the Concurso Permanente competition of Jeunesses Musicales of Spain.

Nowadays, Pau Codina is a member of the Esbjerg Ensemble, Oculi Ensemble and Trio Fortuny.