sentences:  In 1987-89, he won first prizes in cello and chamber music at the National Young Musicians Competition.Later, he studied at the Reina Sofía School of Music, and with Maria Kliegel at the Hochschule fur Musik in Cologne and with Ivan Monighetti at the Basel Academy of Music.Polo has participated in master classes with Natalia Gutman and Mstislav Rostropovich.