The violinist María Dueñas has just won the Princess of Girona award in the category of Arts and Letters. This 20-year-old artist from Granada began playing the violin at the age of six, when she enrolled in the Conservatory of Granada. Her precocious talent made her become in 2014 the youngest girl to get the Juventudes Musicales de Madrid scholarship to study abroad. Then, her parents made the decision to leave everything to focus on the career of her daughter, who from that moment on has only achieved success.
María, who today received the news of the award from abroad, thanked the Foundation for the distinction in a video that was projected in the Córdoba auditorium where the Talent Tour chaired by Queen Letizia was organized in the city. At the age of 12 she moved to Dresden to continue her training at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber. Two years later she went to Austria to study with Borís Kuschnir at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität in the city of Vienna and at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Graz.
Dueñas also composes and brings classical music closer to young people, in addition, last September he signed an exclusive contract with the legendary Deutsche Grammophon record company and will inaugurate his discography with Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and cadences of his own composition, recorded in the Sala Dorada of the Musikverein with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Manfred Honeck conducting.
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