Apel·les Carod Requesens (Cambrils, Catalonia, 1989). Jazz violinist and composer. First Jazz Violin graduate in Spain (2010-2015, ESMUC), he extended his studies in New York, at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music (2015-2016). He has been twice awarded with the second prize at the International Zbigniew Seifert Jazz Violin Competition (2014 and 2016). He has led his own bands (quartet, septet and trio), and has played and collaborated with bands and artists of different styles such as Txarango, Els Pets, Lecirke, David Mauricio, Esmuc Jazz Project, Pawel Kaczmarczyk, Stanislaw Slowinski, etc. He has performed his music at prestigious venues and festivals in Catalonia, and also internationally, in countries such as Poland, Hungary or the USA. He teaches jazz violin at Taller de Músics, Barcelona.