María Dueñas

Violinist from Spain
2002, December 4th in Granada, Spain -

María Dueñas Fernández (Granada, 4 December 2002) is a Spanish violinist and composer. She began her studies at the Ángel Barrios Conservatory in Granada, then continued at the Carl Maria von Weber College of Music in Dresden. On the recommendation of Vladimir Spivakov she became a pupil of Boris Kuschnir in Vienna, and she studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. As a young player she won first prizes at the Zhuhai Mozart Competition and the Leonid Kogan Competition (2017), the Vladimir Spivakov International Violin Competition and the Yankelevitch Competition (2018), and the Grand Prize of the Viktor Tretyakov International Violin Competition (2021). Her international breakthrough came in 2021, when she won first prize and the audience prize in the senior division of the Menuhin Competition. In 2022 she signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon, which released Beethoven and Beyond (2023), with the Beethoven Violin Concerto and her own cadenzas, and a complete recording of Paganini's 24 Caprices (2025). She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras including the San Francisco Symphony, the Luxembourg Philharmonic and the Spanish National Orchestra, and received the Luitpold Prize of the Kissinger Sommer festival in 2023. She has played the Muntz Guarneri del Gesù of 1736 and, since 2022, the Camposelice Stradivarius of 1710, both on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation. She also composes, and founded the Hamamelis Quartet. Source: Rondo DB

Usual Name María Dueñas
Alternative Spellings María Dueñas Fernández, Maria Duenas
On Wikipedia María_Dueñas_(violinist)
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