José Antonio Escobar was born in Santiago de Chile, and studied from an early age under the renowned Ernesto Quezada at the University of Chile, graduating summa cum laude. He obtained his Master’s Degree after winning a Chilean Government scholarship to study under Franz Halász at the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg-Augsburg, where he also became a teaching assistant. To complement these studies he has also attended master-classes with Eliot Fisk and Hopkinson Smith, among others. Winner of several international competitions, including the prestigious Francisco Tarrega competition in Spain, he has also given concerts throughout Europe, North, Central and South America, and the Asia/Pacific region, Middle East and North Africa. José Antonio has played as a soloist with various orchestras as well. In 2001 he recorded his first recital CD with Naxos that was particularly well received by critics, since then he has recorded for differents record labels. Since 2004 he has served as Professor at the Universidad Mayor in Santiago, Chile. At the present, he is frequently invited to play and teach master-classes at important festivals and universities in several countries.