A breathtaking variety of colors, technical skill, artistic maturity and bold interpretations – these are the hallmarks of Spanish violinist María Dueñas. She studies with the world-famous violin teacher Boris Kuschnir at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, her adopted home. Born in Granada in 2002, she was accepted to the conservatory in her home town at the age of seven. A scholarship abroad took her to Dresden for two years in 2014, where she attracted the attention of conductor Marek Janowski, at whose invitation she later made her debut as a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
After winning a number of first prizes at prestigious international competitions, she is now in demand worldwide and performs with major orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the NHK Symphony Orchestra under leading conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel, Manfred Honeck, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Daniel Harding and Herbert Blomstedt. As an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist, she released her first album “Beethoven and Beyond” with Manfred Honeck and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in 2023.
María Dueñas plays the Nicolò Gagliano violin from 1734, on loan from the German Foundation for Musical Life, and the Stradivarius “Camposelice” from 1710, which was made available to her by the Nippon Music Foundation.