Javier García Verdugo, born in Madrid in 1993, finished his Musical Performance Higher Degree with honors at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid in 2015, receiving the Special Degree Prize.  After studying for some months at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar, Germany, with Ricardo Gallén, he moved to Salzburg, Austria, where he studied with Eliot Fisk at the Mozarteum University, earning a Master in Music Performance in 2019. He has received lessons from some of the greatest guitar masters today, including Leo Brouwer, David Russell, Hopkinson Smith, Carles Trepat, Roberto Aussel, Eduardo Fernandez, Gerardo Arriaga, Zoran Dukic, Carlo Marchione, José Miguel Moreno, and many others. In addition, he studied ancient music, basso continuo, and theorbo, and attended courses in blues, jazz, flamenco and modern improvisation, which makes him a versatile guitarist.

Javier won numerous awards in national and international guitar competitions, such as the Spanish Youth Musician Prize (2015), and first prize at the Gredos of San Diego International Guitar Competition (2015) and at the International Guitar Competition of Havana (2018), among others.

His latest solo album Impresiones has been awarded the Disco Melómano de Oro by the music magazine Melómano. In March 2015 he released his first solo album, Desideratum, which has been broadcasted by the national radio station RNE and was well-received by the specialized press. In April 2020, he has released his third album with the great clarinetist Carlos Orobón entitled Primo Tempo. Javier has been involved in several productions for radio and TV, including two performances for the program Musical Cities of Telecinco, a tribute to guitarist Paco de Lucía for Castilla-La Mancha TV and a production for the national TV station RTVE in collaboration with Sony.

He has performed recitals in many important venues, such as the National Theatre of Havana in Cuba, the Zeneakademia Ferenc Liszt of Budapest in Hungary, the Liszthaus Konzertsaal of Weimar in Germany and the Mozarteum Solitarsaal of Salzburg in Austria. As an orchestra soloist, he has performed with conductors such as Albert Gonzálvez Cardós, Antonio Navarro Borsi and Mariano Domingo, and such orchestras as the Málaga Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ritornello Orchestra and the Kammerorchester der Universität Mozarteum Salzburg. Javier sometimes plays with other musicians, for example, with the clarinetist Carlos Orobón with whom he forms the duo Primo Tempo and in duo with the soprano Natalia Labourdette.