José Gabriel Guaita Gabaldón (1982, Valencia) is a pianist with an extensive career as a collaborative pianist and repertorist. He has performed both as a soloist and alongside numerous singers, instrumentalists, dancers, and various ensembles, including chamber groups and wind orchestras, in some of Spain's most prestigious concert halls, such as the Palau de la Música in Valencia.
He was awarded the Piano Graduation Prize with unanimous distinction at theConservatorio Superior de Música de Valencia (2006). His academic accolades include a matrícula de honor (highest honors) for his undergraduate thesis (Franz Liszt, Années de Pèlerinage I, Suisse: A Study of Musical and Extramusical Elements in Its Conception, 2005); the Euterpe Award for Academic Excellence (2006); and another matrícula de honor for his master’s thesis in early music at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Francisco Ximeno's Music Notebook for Pianoforte [Valencia, 1805]: A Biographical and Technical Study, 2019).
He holds a PhD with the distinction summa cum laude and was nominated for the doctoral award at the Universitat Politècnica de València under the supervision of Dr. Victoria Alemany. His dissertation, The Piano in Valencia, 1790–1856 (2023), explores the establishment of the piano in Valencia, the critical and editorial study of 18th- and 19th-century musical sources, the biographical and professional recovery of musicians, and the processes of social transfer in the use of musical instruments during the transition to the 19th century.
Guaita has participated as a collaborative pianist in several classical dance courses, working with Ballet Campus ADAM since 2016. He is currently employed at the Conservatorio Profesional de Danza de Valencia, where he serves as the Head of the Music and Theory Studies Department.