I feel honored to share the ESTA (European String Teachers Association) May 2022 Newsletter, in which my profile as a featured member has been published. Enjoy the reading!
Born in Buenos Aires, her main teachers were Jacques Doué and Xavier Gagnepain in France, and later she perfected her skills with Janos Starker at the University of Indiana (USA). In 2015, she earned her Doctorate degree from the University of A Coruña with her thesis “Contributions of David Popper in cello teaching”.
She works as a cello professor at the Superior Conservatory of Music in A Coruña and is highly valued as an educator. She has been invited to give master classes at various European academic institutions in Portugal, Italy, the Czech Republic, and Poland. Recently, she was invited to teach at the prestigious Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in the United States. She was a guest teacher at the Presjovem International Festival and Course in Córdoba and has been part of the teaching team at the Hagamos Música course in Soria since 2016, which takes place every August. In July 2022, she will give master classes at the Leonel Morales & Friends International Festival in Granada.
She has participated in important music festivals such as Prades and Les Arcs in France, Manchester in the United Kingdom, Kronberg in Germany, Lenk in Switzerland, and the summer courses of the Chigiana Academy in Siena, Italy. In the field of early music, she has given concerts at the Vía Stellae 2008, 2009, and 2010 festivals, as well as the Musiquem Lleida Festival.
She is the founder member and president of Soncello (Association of Galician Cellists), an entity that carries out an intense task of disseminating the cello through its numerous activities. As a member of the Soncello Ensemble, the association’s cello group, she has recorded two CDs, “Soncello Ensemble” in 2014 and “Cancións Galegas” in 2020.
In 2020, she released her first CD for cello and piano “El violonchelo en tiempos de Gaos”, whose repertoire includes the first recording of the two works for cello and piano by this Galician composer, along with other pieces from the first decades of the 20th century.
The specialized press has written about this CD: “the interpretation, full of energy, vitality, understanding, and perfect understanding between both performers, gives particularly beautiful moments” (Scherzo Magazine, January 2022).