Javier Morales-Martinez, from Los Angeles, CA, is currently pursuing a Masters degree at the Colburn Conservatory of Music studying under Yehuda Gilad. Javier has appeared on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series and NPR’s nationally broadcast program, From the Top, where he was awarded the Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship.

Javier has also won prizes at the National YoungArts Foundation, Backun International Clarinet Competition, Mondavi Center Young Artists National Competition, Silverstein Global Clarinet Contest, and the International Clarinet Association Solo Competition.

As an orchestral musician, Javier has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Baltimore Symphony Music, Orchestra of the Americas, and Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America, among others.